New York Times Cites White Nationalist Eugenicist in Piece Titled “the Secrets of Jewish Genius”
In his column entitled “The Secrets of Jewish Genius,” Bret Stephens pondered the question why Jews had achieved so much despite constituting such a small part of the world’s population. For him, the answer lay in their genetic superiority.
The paper of record is under fire again for publishing an unusual article promoting race science. In his column entitled “The Secrets of Jewish Genius,” Bret Stephens pondered the question: why have Jews achieved so much despite constituting such a small part of the world’s population?
For Stephens, the answer lay in their genetic superiority: “Jews are, or tend to be smart. When it comes to Ashkenazi Jews, it’s true,” he wrote, making sure to distinguish between white Ashkenazi Jews and other, darker-skinned groups such as Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews. Noting that Ashkenazis have won 27 percent of American Nobel prizes in science and account for more than half of world chess champions, he quoted one paper that claimed, “Ashkenazi Jews have the highest average I.Q. of any ethnic group for which there are reliable data.”
However, one of the paper’s authors, Henry Harpending, was a discredited race scientist with a history of promoting eugenics– and someone who had ties to white nationalist groups according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The pushback to a Jewish person arguing that certain races are inherently superior to others was swift. Referencing the 7,800 layoffs across the media in 2019, The Nation’s Ben Ehrenreich quipped:
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