The measurement of race differences justifies rather than discovers inequality

Evidence

The Bell Curve, said Gould, “must … be recording a swing of the political pendulum to a sad position that requires a rationale for affirming social inequalities as dictates of biology.” … No one will ever know what doesn’t exist. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1141

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instances Kendi’s core inversion — the biology-of-inequality claim is manufactured to rationalize a political swing, not to describe reality. High value for the reader’s stated testing goal. — connects to: Postwar IQ testing data grouped immigrant whites into inferior racial ranks — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1664; Racial inequality stems from violence and closure strategies, not markets alone — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface:…, 21