YESTERDAY’S PROGRESSIVES on race.

Today’s leftist, had he been born one hundred years ago, would have held the same beliefs as his peers. Those beliefs, we would gently remind him, include the reality of ethnic differences in behavior and cognition.

And when genetic science pushes this reality into his lap–which it will in the very near future [*]–he may do well to acquaint himself with a way of thinking about it which will not seem totally foreign. . . .

David Southern took a trip down memory lane to see what yesterday’s Progressives thought about race. On his quest for Mr Goodbar, he sought out even one major Progressive figure who wasn’t racialist–almost entirely in vain.

* I changed one of these links to an archived version because the original was broken. And I provide here an alternative link for the video on the dailymotion site.