UK: Introducing the most derided ethnic group in Britain: young white men. “YouGov data from 48 separate surveys reveals that young white men are seen as the worst ethnic, gender or age group on five negative traits – and the second worst on five positive traits.”

There’s some dumb analysis in here:

However, there is one characteristic that I consider to be independent of ethnicity: intelligence. If there is something close to a “pure” measure of racist sentiment, or lack of it, it is here. In overall terms, the difference between beliefs about the “best” and “worst” ethnic groups is narrower for intelligence than for most other characteristics. Jewish and Chinese men and women come out slightly ahead of other groups, while Muslim, Pakistani and Polish folk lag behind – but the gap is modest. This finding holds good, whatever the age, gender or social class of the respondent.

So, noticing group differences with respect to intelligence is obviously racist? After all, it’s not as if intelligence has a genetic component! Did respondents generally think of Jewish and Chinese people as smarter because of widespread pro-Jewish and pro-Chinese sentiment in the UK?