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There's two different questions in your post: First, you ask what the covert message is. Second, you ask me to show has the post has a covert message. One's own writing always reads apparently clearly, but I thought I offered sufficient evidence that the original post has a covert message, even though I wasn't picking out any particular covert meaning.
I believe the covert message is "Intelligence is: real/important/relevant/effectively measured by IQ/a useful concept for theory-building/probably innate/probably stable/probably genetic. Race is: real/important/relevant/effectively measured by self-identification/strongly correlated to genetics. There is scientific evidence that the genetic component of race is a significant causative influence on intelligence."
So, you seem to be saying that Yvain is using Watson as an example, at least partly (and significantly so) in order to convince others of (not to put too fine a point on it) the racist IQ hypothesis.
I had a different reading of the post, which was that even for someone who disagreed with the racist IQ hypothesis, Watson's pronouncements should carry more weight than a random person's. I actually agree with Yvain - though I also note that looking into Watson's actual argument in even a little more detail was enough for me to dismiss it.