Rushton and the Underclass
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 2012-04-15

Scapegoating. Dress it up in all the academic-sounding language you like, but it's still the same old thing. We have an underclass. What do we do about it? Well, we either try to fix it or we find a reason to blame someone for it.

J Philippe Rushton has all kinds of clever "scientific" explanations as to why certain "types" inhabit society's margins. He has, however, offered no scientific explanation as to why the underclass exists in the first place. Indeed, he seems unaware that such a thing has always been with us, and would certainly exist even if there were no identifiable biological differences.

To put it less charitable, Rushton is a fraud. Clothed in "science" or not, scapegoating is still scapegoating, and if the slums weren't filled with "those people", they'd be filled with "our people".