Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right

by Elizabeth Sandifer

It is not that there is no relationship between geographic ancestry and genetic makeup—the Wikipedia article you’re looking for is “Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup”—but the genetic differences across haplogroups are of negligible significance in any direct “some people are inherently less intelligent” sense even before you even get to the massive eyebrow raise that is the statement “intelligence is accurately measured by IQ tests,” upon which most of these claims depend. In practice any correlations emerging from haplogroups are dwarfed by those emerging from environmental factors such as lead exposure, childhood nutrition, and economic development. (For a sense of how useless the claims of scientific racism are, the supposed couple point IQ difference that exists between black and white people is vastly smaller than the IQ difference between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.128 Even Moldbug ultimately admits this is a load of crap, and he thinks black people make good slaves.)