Genre: Fiction--Political Science
Completed: 5 August 2021
Summary & Review:
Despite America being founded on the ideal of everyone having equal standing before the law, the last fifty years of political action has dispensed with that and started treating certain groups differently than others. Why has this occurred? According to Charles Murray it is due to the mistaken assumption that differences in outcomes for racial groups is due to racism. In this short book, Murray lays out the case for the reality of racial differences in intelligence and criminality and shows that this is not due to racism, but largely due to genetic differences between racial groups. Despite the uncomfortable nature of these facts, Murray argues they are necessary to accept so that America can return to a country where everyone is treated equally as an individual rather than a cog in a racial grievance group.
I’ve read several books by Murray and have always found them to be reasonable and well-researched. This book, although brief, was no exception. But, as one review put it, this book doesn’t really have an audience. Those who are on Murray’s side are already very familiar with the data he presents, and those whom Murray hopes to convince would never read his book in the first place. Also, Murray's conclusion that the danger of our current identity politics-fueled regime is that whites may start to act in their own self-interest is pretty absurd. He seems to think that identity politics for whites would be the most evil thing in the world, rather than a reasonable response from working-class whites who are being disinherited from their own country. He is basically accepting the left’s premise as he attempts to stay politically correct enough to stay in the elite’s good graces. Lame-o.
Rating: 5.5
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