The Left's Greatest Victory Over Conservatism
Conservatives generally pride themselves on being hard-headed and clear-eyed realists...
Yet those same conservatives have glommed onto what is, in its own way, a similarly confused and flawed ideology, colourblindness. This creed demands that we pretend not to see race, an aspect of reality as obvious as sex or class in the hope that social harmony will magically follow... In this sense, colourblindness rests on the same fundamental mistake conservatives often accuse the left of making: subordinating observable reality to an appealing abstraction...
Like communism’s fantasy of a classless utopia, colourblindness offers another seductive promise: end conflict by erasing a dividing line. Communism pledged to abolish class conflict; colourblindness promises to erase racial conflict... In practice, neither holds up... by adopting colourblindness, conservatives are not beating the Left; they are capitulating to its central blind spot...
Why Colourblindness Is Empirically Silly and Not Real
Violent-crime disparities. So, if race "doesn’t matter," why do we see enormous racial gaps in violence and victimisation? FBI crime statistics and BJS reports show that Black Americans (~13% of the population) commit a far larger share of serious violent crime...
Academic and cognitive gaps... The black–white gap on standardised tests has barely budged in decades. Likewise, long-term research on intelligence and achievement finds consistent group differences...
Family structure and impulse control. Social science finds huge racial differences in family and behavioural factors that shape life outcomes... Similarly, controlled studies find biological differences in traits like impulsivity and testosterone... There is also evidence Blacks, on average, score higher on measures of impulsivity and time-discounting (preferring immediate rewards)...
Genetics and heritability. Modern genetics have demolished the idea that "race is just a social construct" with no real substance... he concept of race does map onto genetics in a meaningful way. Thus, we know race correlates with real biology.
Social cohesion and trust. Empirical social-science research shows that increasing ethnic diversity tends to reduce social trust and solidarity, the opposite of the promised harmony... "More diversity = more division"...
Cowardice, Not Ignorance
... Many conservatives... dare not speak it aloud. Acknowledging that race does matter in crime, schooling, or family formation would force them to confront the deepest taboos of modern discourse...
It takes moral courage to say, "I want my country to remain recognisably the country of my ancestors; I worry about demographic change."... "This country must remain fundamentally this country."...
If the Right is to truly live up to its boast of realism, it must ditch the false vision of a race-neutral utopia...
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