Bret Stephens’ article was ridiculous, eugenicist garbage. But calls to boycott the newspaper won’t help
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Just three days before the dawn of the third decade of the 21st century, one of the world’s top newspapers published a column by one if its full-time opinion contributors arguing that one ethnic group is inherently more intelligent than others. In this case, the superior ethnic group in question was, unsurprisingly, that to which the writer belongs.
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