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...Herrnstein should not be fired, as the two groups demand. Nor should he be censured. Neither the faculty nor the University has the authority to take a stand on a man who writes theories and not policies. Within the realm of ideas, however, individuals Faculty members have the right--and, in our opinion, the obligation--to challenge Herrnstein's article. Some Faculty members have done so. But a larger group has only attacked the most vocal segment of Herrnstein's critics. The threat of Herrnstein's ideas is more dangerous than the imagined threat of SDS and UAG to intellectual...
...racist position in the current I.Q. debate belongs to SDS--not Herrnstein. Members of SDS are the ones who seem convinced that people's races are important...
Reading SDS literature, hearing their slogans, gives one the impression that they object to Herrnstein's meritocracy because they think the lower classes will contain disproportionate numbers of a given race...
...might reply that it considers race important only because other people--bigots--consider it important. If individuals are losing out because of their skin color and not their abilities, SDS might ask, would not race be a legitimate concern? Indeed it would--and Herrnstein would agree...
...Herrnstein's position is non-racist. He believes that if society could be counted upon to reward high I.Q. with success, regardless of one's race, then anyone with a high I.Q. would succeed. And if this relation between I.Q. and success is held to be a good one, in fact, racism becomes an evil in Herrnstein's meritocracy. It destroys, or badly disrupts, the relationship between I.Q.'s and social rewards...