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Ok, I'll try to be careful when I say this.

The statement that one group of people have a different level of intelligence than another group of people isn't, in itself, bad.

What's bad is the way this guy is using this to stereotype and discriminate.

To explain more, take a less controversial subject: how high can someone jump. This is going to be dictated by a combination of genetics and training.

If you take training out of the equation (by training all subjects equally, or accounting for the training in the testing somehow), then you are left with genetics.

If someone tested one group of people and found that that group could, on average, jump higher than another group, then that's neither good nor evil, it's just a statement of fact.

Same thing with intelligence, it's a combination of genetics and training. So that one group of people would have lower intelligence on average than another group seems like a reasonable thing to happen.

However testing intelligence isn't as easy to test as how high someone can jump.

And for sure using either of those pieces of information to discriminate against a group of people is wrong.

When I first read about this my first thought was that people were blowing a statement out of proportion and what he was talking about was what I just described.. but then I read what he was saying and yeah it seems what he thinks is pretty bad.

Goes to show that just because someone is smart doesn't mean they're an authority on everything.