“Race realism” is a completely mainstream idea. People in the US routinely classify people by race, statistics do the same, medicine routinely also does so (while often using the synonym “ethnicity”) when it is medically relevant, approximately nobody doubts that “East Asian” people exist and are different from “Europeans” etc.
I have merely skimmed Richard’s RTs, but in some contexts HBD and race realism have been motivated by racial superiority and considered pseudoscientific (that said I doubt he holds such beliefs even modestly)
(confused by the downvotes here. my understanding is that in general, race science has been used towards ideological motivations, regardless of the methodologies being scientific, and that this specific use of race science is fringe nowadays)
“Race realism” is a completely mainstream idea. People in the US routinely classify people by race, statistics do the same, medicine routinely also does so (while often using the synonym “ethnicity”) when it is medically relevant, approximately nobody doubts that “East Asian” people exist and are different from “Europeans” etc.
I don’t know what you mean exactly with HBD, but opinions on race differences in intelligence are in fact quite mainstream, in fact more so than many other fairly common beliefs, e.g. that eating meat is wrong.
I have merely skimmed Richard’s RTs, but in some contexts HBD and race realism have been motivated by racial superiority
and considered pseudoscientific(that said I doubt he holds such beliefs even modestly)(confused by the downvotes here. my understanding is that in general, race science has been used towards ideological motivations, regardless of the methodologies being scientific, and that this specific use of race science is fringe nowadays)