Charles Murray describes his 'punishment' for the Bell Curve
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I'm wondering what he expected would happen once "word got out". Did he expect we would all just continue pretending to live in a "colorblind society"? Because that project only works if there aren't (or people pretend there aren't) group differences.
He thought that eventually most people would recognize that he was telling the truth in the bell curve. A naive belief that truth would prevail.
He was very wrong. Murray is vilified to this day, and him and anyone like him will be vilified until the day the cathedral finally collapses.
Woke notions that the races are different and White society benefits Whites at the expense of non-Whites arguably are more aligned with accepting the evidence of racial differences than the "colorblind" society of the 90s was.
This is why I wonder what he expected would happen, because it's entirely predictable that if you tell a certain group they are less well suited to a society whose rules are largely determined by another group, the disadvantaged group would demand some accommodation.
Did he expect that reaction? Probably not, but he had to expect that society wouldn't ever be the same after he threw that particular grenade into the crowd.