Libertarianism vs. racial reality by Lawrence Auster

The Randian blogger at Rational Passion gets down to the fundamental issue between those who think that the racial composition of a society matters, and those who say that it's both false and morally "noxious" (that's his word for me) to think that it matters. It's an amazing thing to see pure ideology at work. According to the Randian Objectivists, we are to be seen only as individuals who are completely free to choose what we are; and therefore it's a great sin to see people as belonging to a group or as being in any way sharing or being influenced by group characteristics; and therefore it is immoral to notice the obvious fact that a black African country with an average IQ of 70, or a black American city with an average IQ of 85, will be on a very different level of functioning than a white society with an average IQ of 100. The Randian ideologists of reason have outlawed reason. We're not supposed to see the world in front of us, because it contradicts Objectivism.

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