Sky News Australia interviews James Flynn, New Zealand author of a
manuscript “In Defense of Free Speech”.
The publisher in New Zealand balked at publishing it at the last moment
out of fear of offending hate speech laws in New Zealand and Australia and
Europe.
Flynn had discussed Charles Murray’s “Bell Curve” and even
disagreed with the possible interpretation that there are genetic factors in
race v. IQ differences. Flynn argues
that it is in the final analysis environmental (and about colonialism in the
past). But the mere fact that he had restated Murray’s argument meant that it could
be taken out of context and incite violence (???)
Flynn says that societies have reached the point where
political or social power to enforce norms trumps the ability to look for
deeper truths. But that is how it was in
the Middle Ages.
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