Academia cannot Tolerate linking Race and IQ

Maarten Boudry writes:

Two separate statements have recently been issued by members of Ghent University, in Belgium, calling on the university to rescind the appointment of Nathan Cofnas as a postdoctoral researcher. One claims that his views “violate the university’s code of ethics and are morally beneath contempt”.

Cofnas is hated for this:

Any realistic path to victory over wokism requires widespread acceptance of hereditarianism among the elites. As I explained in “Why We Need to Talk about the Right’s Stupidity Problem,” wokism is what follows from taking the equality thesis seriously, given a background of Christian morality. If all races and sexes have the same innate distributions of psychological traits, disparities in socioeconomic status must be due to environmental factors. In practice, that means differences in outcome favoring whites or men will be attributed to past or present white racism or sexism. This triggers an all-consuming crusade against the hidden forces of discrimination. That’s what wokism is. Smart people are disproportionately attracted to the woke left because the mainstream right accepts the equality thesis but fails to recognize its implications. Woke law and woke institutions are primarily effects rather than causes of elites being woke. Undermining the equality thesis destroys the intellectual basis of wokism and gives the elites a reason to join the right.

According to this paywalled article, Cofnas is threatened with arrest in Belgium.

This is all taboo. Here is the logic. Some people are more intelligent than others. Intelligence is measured by IQ tests. All evolved human traits must be heritable. Numerous studies have shown IQ to be heritable. Heritable traits are very likely to have average differences over groups. Race is real and measurable. Self-identified race is nearly always the same as that identified by DNA tests. There are likely to be racial and sex differences in IQ, with a largely genetic origin.

This information could be used to justify discrimination.

Often this is addressed by attributing differences to culture or discrimination. If so, there could be some legal remedy. But those remedies have never worked.

So the response is to deny that race exists. Or deny that IQ exists. Or deny that human genetic differences exist. Or prohibit anyone from talking about the subject.