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To the fact that people are offended? No. They would be offended simply because the words are negative, regardless of accuracy.
As for myself, I'm not personally offended ... I think it's a half truth. Yes, dominance might be attractive in some contexts, no, that doesn't mean that being a jerk is generally an effective mating strategy.
The racism example is a half-truth too. Blacks do perform worse on cognitive tasks...but there is no evidence that this difference is genetic, and quite a bit of evidence that it's due to socioeconomic and health related factors. If I didn't tell you the second half of it, you might have just implicitly assumed the differences were genetic.
No evidence that it is genetic, whatsoever? Any of it? That's a bold claim. It's certainly great if that's the case!
Having spent a reasonable amount of time looking into the matter in the past, I do feel fairly comfortable in making that claim, unless something new has come out in the past ~4 years.
Given that IQ is over 50% heritable and IQ heritability increases with age, my prior would be that it's largely genetic.