And then I imagined the gargoyles above laughing deafeningly. These words seem very out of place in the modern American university. The modern mind associates Truth with tyranny rather than freedom. Truth is, after all, very restrictive.
Truth eliminates a myriad of tempting options.
Furthermore, it is not inconceivable that some of those characteristics could be heritable. For example, we associate blue eyes and blond hair with Germanic peoples, dark skin and curly black hair with Negroid peoples, etc. I continued my argument by saying that it seems quite plausible that the disproportionate number of blacks in professional basketball is due, in part, to anatomical advantages characteristic of blacks. That could lead to systematic, institutionalized discrimination. . . . How people would or should respond to such differences is a completely different matter.