Mitchell I think you'll find that if you look closely enough and the
genetics and intelligence issue you'll find that, not only is there no such
thing as race, there is no such thing as genetic differences in
intelligence full stop. Intelligence itself is an ideological construct
rather like money. Like money some people have more of it than others and
like money it can be inherited. It appears as an ideology in the latter part
of the 19th century when all the property was bought up so to speak and the
professional middle class, Hobsbawm's nouvelle couche sociale, needed a
justification for privilege. So you had Francis Amasa Walker president of
MIT teaching his students about the rent of (their) ability, their property
was their ability and in Britain you had George Bernard Shaw writing about
socialism as the "paradise for the able".
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