Many of the factors that made HBD completely undeniable are fairly recent.
Blacks didn't get equality till the 60s and then a reasonable person could give them a generation or two to catch up.
De-Colonization didn't get going till around the same time, so who's to say why the third world was so held back. And again, don't they deserve a generation or two to catch up.
Asians didn't really prove they had what it took undeniably until the 80s or 90s. China being stagnant under communism probably held back this realization even further.
The knowledge economy becoming more and more important was a gradual thing that raised the salience of IQ. And the post WWII SAT sorting that is the primary thesis of The Bell Curve was also fairly recent. It used to be that there were a lot more smart people outside of the knowledge economy and professional class.
So probably the earliest HBD became pretty dominant empirically was say the 90s, which puts it right around The Bell Curve. While the information was probably good enough then, I can see how someone who was a bleeding heart or didn't like HBD because it conflicted with their ideology (right or left) would hold out hope that education reform or some other magic bullet might solve things.
And anyway, the whole world was gravy in the 1990s so why upset any apple carts. Then in the 2000s we had a strategy of making the Middle East Democracies and the compassionate conservatism of the ownership society was going to win over naturally conservative Hispanics.
Right around the second Obama term I think this all came undone. The end of communism meant unleashing the high IQ Chinese on the world. The third world continued to stagnate. Education reform failed. The Middle East was a shitshow. Hispanics rejected Romney.
Obama's first term could ride on rejecting Bush-ism, but his second turned much more towards black racial resentment and juicing the handouts. Oberfegell basically declared open season on the most insane gender and sex stuff.
I myself didn't really come around to HBD until the late 2000s, and I had a lot of strong reasons to know better before and a dramatically stronger statistical background then most of the population.
But by the time you get to the 2010s HBD is both empirically undeniable while being demographically, culturally, and legally a non-starter. So the response is basically people who know they don't like this shit but can't explain why.
You make a number of excellent points. I would add in massive funding for medical research which requires research on genome.
I think much of the hysteria of Wokeness is because all the facts now undermine the entire world view of the Left. They have nothing left but rejecting reality, celebrating mental disorders and implementing censorship.
It will not work. The entire system will come crashing down at some point soon.
Voters will accept rolling back research on human genome for medical purposes, so more and more evidence will keep rolling out.
It may seem like that, but in reality a lot of people dating back had just as clear a picture of race differences from heritability, simply google "darwin racism" and you will see he clearly understood racial differences.
Many of the factors that made HBD completely undeniable are fairly recent.
Blacks didn't get equality till the 60s and then a reasonable person could give them a generation or two to catch up.
De-Colonization didn't get going till around the same time, so who's to say why the third world was so held back. And again, don't they deserve a generation or two to catch up.
Asians didn't really prove they had what it took undeniably until the 80s or 90s. China being stagnant under communism probably held back this realization even further.
The knowledge economy becoming more and more important was a gradual thing that raised the salience of IQ. And the post WWII SAT sorting that is the primary thesis of The Bell Curve was also fairly recent. It used to be that there were a lot more smart people outside of the knowledge economy and professional class.
So probably the earliest HBD became pretty dominant empirically was say the 90s, which puts it right around The Bell Curve. While the information was probably good enough then, I can see how someone who was a bleeding heart or didn't like HBD because it conflicted with their ideology (right or left) would hold out hope that education reform or some other magic bullet might solve things.
And anyway, the whole world was gravy in the 1990s so why upset any apple carts. Then in the 2000s we had a strategy of making the Middle East Democracies and the compassionate conservatism of the ownership society was going to win over naturally conservative Hispanics.
Right around the second Obama term I think this all came undone. The end of communism meant unleashing the high IQ Chinese on the world. The third world continued to stagnate. Education reform failed. The Middle East was a shitshow. Hispanics rejected Romney.
Obama's first term could ride on rejecting Bush-ism, but his second turned much more towards black racial resentment and juicing the handouts. Oberfegell basically declared open season on the most insane gender and sex stuff.
I myself didn't really come around to HBD until the late 2000s, and I had a lot of strong reasons to know better before and a dramatically stronger statistical background then most of the population.
But by the time you get to the 2010s HBD is both empirically undeniable while being demographically, culturally, and legally a non-starter. So the response is basically people who know they don't like this shit but can't explain why.
You make a number of excellent points. I would add in massive funding for medical research which requires research on genome.
I think much of the hysteria of Wokeness is because all the facts now undermine the entire world view of the Left. They have nothing left but rejecting reality, celebrating mental disorders and implementing censorship.
It will not work. The entire system will come crashing down at some point soon.
Voters will accept rolling back research on human genome for medical purposes, so more and more evidence will keep rolling out.
It may seem like that, but in reality a lot of people dating back had just as clear a picture of race differences from heritability, simply google "darwin racism" and you will see he clearly understood racial differences.