Respect for each person, except for the wayward souls who commit heinous crimes, is due to each and every person.
The question however has to do with superiority. Like Einstein who was smarter than the rest of us…. Like Copernicus; Galileo, Da Vinci; Michaelangelo, Plato; Archimedes; and Aristotle who were clearly ahead of their cultures.
James D. Watson, 79, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine, told the Sunday Times of London that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.”
Equal under the law means something different than equal in abilities and attributes. People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” Watson said. “I think it would be great.”
In 2000, he told a lecture audience at U.C. Berkeley that there was a correlation between a population’s exposure to sunlight and its sex drive.
“That’s why you have Latin lovers,” Watson said, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “You’ve never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.”
The notion that intelligence tests and other scientific evidence shows that racial groups differ in intelligence, at least statistically, is not a new one.
It last gained popular attention in 1994 with “The Bell Curve,” a best-selling book written by Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein (who died before publication) and political scientist Charles Murray, which argued that intelligence was more important than socio-economic background or education in achieving success in American life.
The book does not explicitly ascribe a genetic, racial connection to intelligence, but; big, big but; Murray in his publicity tour to promote the book cited studies that human intelligence could be ranked by ancestry, with East Asians and European Jews leading the way.
That view was more clearly stated in 1995 by British-Canadian psychologist J. Philippe Rushton, whose “Race, Evolution and Behavior: A Life History Perspective” quantified dozens of differences between blacks, whites and Asians.
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