Philosopher Michael Levin says in 1998 to the question of racial pathology, i.e. that black behavior in the ghetto is pathological: “Very often people will wish to make a negative value judgment about a certain behavior but they think it is bad to do that, that it is judgmental, so they call it sick or pathological. A lot of people are disturbed by black drug use and black crime, but they don’t want to judge anyone, so they’ll say it is a pathology of the ghetto. I don’t think it is a pathology. It is acting on impulses that were adaptive in the evolutionary past. The same genes come over here and act impulsively but it is not a disease.”
“Belief in the reality and significance of intelligence is inversely correlated with education, which is correlated with IQ. You have to be very intelligent to believe there is no such thing as intelligence.”
