"What do we do with the fact that measured intelligence varies between racial groups?"
We do nothing with it. Why would we want to?
We don't hire groups; we hire individuals. We don't admit groups; we admit individuals. We're not friends with groups; we're friends with individuals. The fact that any given group average (of anything!) is higher or lower than a different group's average is meaningless in every way that counts.
What matters in our human interactions is our human abilities as they are displayed & demonstrated, individual by individual. Group averages are absurd for everyone but sociologists.
If we begin with a color-blind commitment, meaning that we will define our standards, and create our process hurdles to be 'blind' to any given individual's race or color, then process outcomes simply are what they are. If there is a racial imbalance in that outcome, it's NOT the process at fault (if fault is to be had), it's the input quality of those who participate. We don't need to invoke 'race realism' to accept that imbalance....we only need to accept the fact that the standards & process hurdles that yielded the imbalance are themselves race-neutral, making the outcomes non-racist even if they are imbalanced.
For all the rest of us, that's fine; that's life. Better players start even if it means that starting team is racially imbalanced. No one cares. And we don't care because we're also sure that even if our group's average is higher or lower than a different group's average, that we ourselves will start if we ourseves are better. Group averages be damned.
But for the Social Engineer, convinced that life really should be arithmetically fair & balanced & even in all ways at all times, then every demographic imbalance is a nail in need of a hammer. It doesn't matter if women don't want to be lumberjacks, 50% of all lumberjacks must be women. It doesn't matter if men don't want to be pre-school teachers or dental hygienists....50% of both must be men.
Thus we see the monstrously horrific corruption of our institutions....the dissolution of standards....the death of quality...all pursued to make the Group Average look better. And it doesn't matter if the Social Engineer has to actively discriminate on the basis of color to make that happen...heck, you can't make an omelet without breaking a whole bunch of eggs. And if that doesn't work, well dammit, break some more!
"What do we do with the fact that measured intelligence varies between racial groups?"
We do nothing with it. Why would we want to?
We don't hire groups; we hire individuals. We don't admit groups; we admit individuals. We're not friends with groups; we're friends with individuals. The fact that any given group average (of anything!) is higher or lower than a different group's average is meaningless in every way that counts.
What matters in our human interactions is our human abilities as they are displayed & demonstrated, individual by individual. Group averages are absurd for everyone but sociologists.
If we begin with a color-blind commitment, meaning that we will define our standards, and create our process hurdles to be 'blind' to any given individual's race or color, then process outcomes simply are what they are. If there is a racial imbalance in that outcome, it's NOT the process at fault (if fault is to be had), it's the input quality of those who participate. We don't need to invoke 'race realism' to accept that imbalance....we only need to accept the fact that the standards & process hurdles that yielded the imbalance are themselves race-neutral, making the outcomes non-racist even if they are imbalanced.
For all the rest of us, that's fine; that's life. Better players start even if it means that starting team is racially imbalanced. No one cares. And we don't care because we're also sure that even if our group's average is higher or lower than a different group's average, that we ourselves will start if we ourseves are better. Group averages be damned.
But for the Social Engineer, convinced that life really should be arithmetically fair & balanced & even in all ways at all times, then every demographic imbalance is a nail in need of a hammer. It doesn't matter if women don't want to be lumberjacks, 50% of all lumberjacks must be women. It doesn't matter if men don't want to be pre-school teachers or dental hygienists....50% of both must be men.
Thus we see the monstrously horrific corruption of our institutions....the dissolution of standards....the death of quality...all pursued to make the Group Average look better. And it doesn't matter if the Social Engineer has to actively discriminate on the basis of color to make that happen...heck, you can't make an omelet without breaking a whole bunch of eggs. And if that doesn't work, well dammit, break some more!
A welcome dose of clarity.