I suspect that most grievances about genetic IQ differences are motivated by status.
Almost everyone perceives intelligence to be a marker of status, so spreading the belief "Group X have lower average IQ" has the consequence of lowering group X's members' status in the eyes of most people. And intentionally publicly lowering someone's status using words is more-or-less the definition of an insult. The only difference in this case is that the status lowering isn't intentional; unfortunately, intentions are very hard to signal convincingly.
I suspect that most grievances about genetic IQ differences are motivated by status.
Almost everyone perceives intelligence to be a marker of status, so spreading the belief "Group X have lower average IQ" has the consequence of lowering group X's members' status in the eyes of most people. And intentionally publicly lowering someone's status using words is more-or-less the definition of an insult. The only difference in this case is that the status lowering isn't intentional; unfortunately, intentions are very hard to signal convincingly.
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