{"id":4824,"date":"2015-03-18T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2015-03-18T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T22:58:00","slug":"what-a-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4824","title":{"rendered":"What a feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was Benito Mussolini in 1932<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0I suppose that the idea that some races are superior to others has never gone away. \u00c2\u00a0Just today, for instance, the New York Times seems to have hired a science columnist who thinks such a proposition worth pursuing. \u00c2\u00a0Here’s Gawker’s take<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Khan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writing elsewhere hardly rejects the doctrines on which these outlets are based. He merely treats what white racists taken for granted\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat non-whites, and especially blacks, are intellectually inferior\u00e2\u20ac\u201das an open question worth exploring<\/a> in the name of scientific inquiry.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Still, Khan is careful with his actual words; he never says<\/em> black people are less intelligent. But his willingness to treat black intelligence as a matter of debate has not hampered his career in the slightest. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s written for Slate<\/a>, The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/em>, and The Guardian<\/a><\/em>. Indeed, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already placed two<\/a>op-eds<\/a>, about the evolution of cats and abortion politics, in The New York Times.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The accusation here is that Khan iron mans racist science: it’s worth looking into whether these (historically inferior) “races” are inferior because inquiry, or science.<\/p>\n

I guess I thought we were beyond this (in part for the reasons Mussolini mentions), but then again, I’ve had more than one student who basically affirms old-fashioned racial theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.” That was Benito Mussolini in 1932. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0I suppose that the idea that some races are superior to others has never gone away. \u00c2\u00a0Just today, for … Continue reading What a feeling<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1180,391,1925],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-iron-man","tag-new-york-times","tag-razib-khan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}