Why Liberals (think they) Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives
Dr. Kanazawa,
In your recent PT blog post, Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives, you explained why liberals tend to control institutions such as academia and the media:
“[Liberals] control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.”
You asserted that liberals have higher IQs, are more generous, and are essentially more evolved than conservatives. In response, I’d like to defend the unfortunate, knuckle-dragging schlubs by deconstructing your logic. Unlike most of your previous work (your book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters is excellent and people should buy it), this piece is simply irrational.
Let me begin with some definitions, as you did. You rightly pointed out that political ideologies are difficult to pin down. That’s especially true since few people fall neatly into liberal or conservative camps. There are many people like me, for example, who are fiscally conservative and socially libertarian. There is no place for us on the liberal-conservative spectrum.
So, for sake of simplicity, when I use the word “liberal,” I’ll be referring to the liberal elitists you have noticed occupying the higher ranks of certain institutions. I’m not speaking about the Democrat next door, with whom I can have a beer and a friendly discussion about policy, but the ideologically-driven hard left who you assert are more intelligent than the rest of us.
Onward… You started with this definition of liberalism: “the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others.”
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