Evidence
In casting black and Hispanic parents as uneducable, Bowditch tapped into a perception of people of color as too unintelligent to keep themselves and their children healthy and safe. He indicts black and Hispanic intelligence, not his firm’s aggressive marketing and duplicitous defense of toxic wares. — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 325
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Researchers actively steered black children into lead-tainted homes for a study — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 238; Claiming IQ gaps are immutable functions as a self-fulfilling excuse for inaction — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 73; The general intelligence project has racist roots affecting societal inequalities. — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 109