The dark truth behind the right’s IQ obsession | The New Statesman

US right-wingers are obsessed with IQ, from Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs to politicians like Donald Trump. Quinn Slobodian explains why the cult of IQ reinforces racist and sexist ideology - and where it came from.

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IQ fetishism on the US right has a history that goes back a century, to eugenicists and those in favour of restrictions on immigration. Its more recent revival can be dated to the 1990s, when culture-war campaigns against affirmative action (or positive discrimination) and civil rights legislation hitched themselves to the rising stars of neuroscience and genomics.

Historian and author Quinn Slobodian speaks to our global affairs editor Katie Stallard about the rise of the new tech right.

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