The intolerable truth of genetic inequality: “In free Western democracies today there

are certain ideas which are so explosive that

even to acknowledge their existence

publicly is to incur the most savage penalty

from the reigning liberal establishment. You

will be labelled a bigot, a racist, a sexist, a

fascist or in some way be demonised as

intolerant. Henceforth you will have no credibility. Nothing you say will be listened

to.

You will cease to exist in current debate, except in the ridiculed fringe. Your

persecutors will be the people who most preach tolerance. Yet they are the most

intolerant of all.

In a way that is what happened to American social scientist Charles Murray after

he wrote his controversial 1994 book which linked race and IQ, The Bell Curve:

Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Sydney Morning Herald