After all, I felt the same sentiment when I read Arthur Jensen's 1969 treatise in the Harvard Educational Review espousing the same perspective. The Bell Curve Wars is a collection of perspective essays that provide a response to the arguments in Herrnstein and Murray's book. Most significant and poignant is Fraser's use of the word war in the title. There is a war raging over how we educate our present and future citizens. Further, the battle involves how concepts of equality and democracy are defined and discussed.
Wars have opposing camps and casualties.
Here, the casualties are engulfed in a war with poverty and discrimination. And like all wars, there are financial issues. Here the battle is over spending for schools or prisons. But the greatest casualty is the waste of human resources. As an education professor, I wanted to introduce my students to this war.