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Why is Charles Murray's white nationalist book so intriguing to some people? The man preaches Nazi-style eugenics for Pete's sake: Southern Poverty Law Center: "Charles Murray has become one of the most influential social scientists in America, using racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority..." https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extrem
Ross The book is purely factual. What the facts really mean is not understood in large measure, and that is what the authors state. Deep puzzle in the "fac…moreThe book is purely factual. What the facts really mean is not understood in large measure, and that is what the authors state. Deep puzzle in the "facts."(less)
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by Richard J. Herrnstein
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