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I’ve read numberless op-eds in recent years lamenting conservative distrust of scientific experts. Yet, progressives are remarkably anti-expert when it comes to the venerable field of research into human intelligence.

IQ psychometrics emerged as a scientific field of study in the first decade of the 20th century when Charles Spearman invented factor analysis, which led to him proposing the existence of a general factor of intelligence in 1904. And then, the next year, Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test.

By the end of the 1930s, the modern IQ test had largely matured. Over the past eighty years, IQ has proved itself to be the single most useful and reliable metric in psychology.

In the liberal 1960s and 1970s, IQ science was rigorously interrogated, especially over the racial gaps in average IQ, but emerged battle-tested and resilient.

Over the past week, if you've been paying attention, you've probably noticed something disturbing and not just the double standards, but the increasingly unapologetic nature of them.

A Christian worship event, led by U.S.-based artist Sean Feucht, was disrupted by political hysteria. Concerts were canceled, smoke bombs were thrown into church gatherings, and organizers were fined $2,500 for holding an event in a church for not having a permit.

What’s the media response?

MAGA.

Trump.

As if that’s still relevant, let alone rational.

It’s become the go-to slur. MAGA now seems to mean, “anything I disagree with as a liberal must somehow be Donald Trump’s fault.”

Compare that with 21 months of pro-Gaza demonstrations, many of which openly sympathize with Hamas - a group officially designated as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government...

And when they burned the Canadian flag while chanting “Death to Canada”?

Still no police crackdowns.

No fines.

No raids.

No canceled permits. ...

When will enough be enough?

Because tolerance without boundaries isn’t strength; it’s surrender.

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1949609289951113683

“Thanks god we have free speech, if we would be in Moscow people would be arrested”
— Von Der Leyen to a guy who is being arrested for speaking up

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