Absolutely, Piter. Great example. I was actually arguing with a cretinous middle-aged woman of the ubiquitious lunkheaded public servant kind about this a few days ago. She kept talking about "insidious socioecomic inequalities and prejudices" that were allegedly the precursor to the riots and that the logical response of the government to the chaos was to spend more money in stamping out these supposed "injustices" via increased education spending and social services. There is no getting through to people like this. Furthermore, impotent mainstream conservatives can only wave their fingers and trot out the usual spiel about personal responsibility and hard work as if that rhetoric is ever going to be effective, especially when it ultimately results in an intellectual stalemate with leftist positions. Biology, genetics and IQ, all of these things accepted as facts of nature only fifty or so years ago, is the only way to break this stalemate. It is landmark research such as the paper cited here by Murray that is our only hope of forcing our way through the obfuscations, backdoor action and roadblocks put up by the dwindling number of behavioral environmentalists and finally kicking some fucking sense into these absolutely airheaded and vapid public discourse on these matters.
Those that do not accept hierarchy between and within populations will always be thwarted in the end because hierarchy and deference to the superior is an eternally recurring facet of humanity that can only merely be supressed for short periods but never eliminated.
