Here is some sage counsel from Sam Harris everyone should...

[SKKY]

...hear and listen closely to. Some more than others.

[struggle4progress]

1. The epidemic of annoying white male intellectuals

Their claim to represent reason is total crap'

PHIL TORRES
OCTOBER 20, 2019 10:00AM (UTC)

... Previously, I never had any reason to believe that Harris was racist — but I do now. He has spent a massive amount of time and energy defending Charles Murray, author of "The Bell Curve," which argues that black people are inherently inferior to white people.

Over and over again, ad nauseam, Harris has used his large platform to suggest that Murray isn’t a junk scientist peddling cowardly racist memes, but someone who’s been victimized by those anti-truth progressives. Even more, Harris apparently believes Murray’s claim that blacks are genetically dumber than whites ...

... Harris is intolerably obnoxious, constantly demeaning people for not being Rational and Reasonable while simultaneously making an intellectual fool of himself ...

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/20/steven-pinker-sam-harris-and-the-epidemic-of-annoying-white-male-intellectuals/

[SKKY]

2. Did you read The Bell Curve?

...It’s mostly about Asian Superiority. But hey, whatever.

[struggle4progress]

3. "Race" has never been a scientific concept but only a social construct, although the racists

would like us all to think otherwise

The detailed structure of gene pools is quite unlikely to be visible to the eye, although the social construct "race" is usually based on visible cues

After well over a century of effort, the "scientific racists" have never made any coherent case for their views, which I therefore will not jump to treat seriously every time they raise their ugly heads

"The Bell Curve" was really nothing but a piece of social-conservative propaganda, crying for a "simplified" tax code, as if the pseudo-scientific racist hogwash implied by the book justified that