Now go back to the turn of the last century and the majority of elite white Protestants would consider themselves inherently as a group far superior in ability and intellect to even other Europeans such as the Irish, and Eastern and Southern European Catholic immigrants. The Thomas Nast cartoon depictions of the Irish as ape like make me chuckle. Of course infidel peoples of color and Africans were beneath even the inferior Europeans. That would have been the world that Richard Nixon was born into. The major Oriental groups of the Chinese and Japanese have also traditionally considered themselves intellectually far superior group wise to white barbarian Europeans as matter of genetics. It’s not just a white thang.
Now is there a scientific or genetic basis for any of these claims of group differences? All I can say is that since it is such a taboo subject, I don’t think it will ever be conclusively proven one way or another. Pinker notes the reasons why.
I will say that I agree that even if there was any such conclusive proof, in a natural law, deistic world it shouldn’t matter.
On Ronnie, not so much shocked as disappointed.