PhilSam95

One criticism I have of Alt-hype is that, although he makes good videos on the science behind this topic, he seems to have pretty bad moral reasoning. For example, on his MLK video, he actually said that enslaving black people in the past was "at worst a morally neutral act" and that Jim Crow laws against blacks were not really unjust. I explained why his reasons for thinking that were mistaken in the comments section of his video. But still, those comments by him were deeply disturbing and almost swore me off from watching more of his videos. The claim that slavery was not really immoral and many in the alt-right having positive attitudes toward Hitler, I think, contribute to why the alt-right is hated and viewed as dangerous by others. Furthermore, these insensitive comments by alt-righters make it difficult for people to think about race realism in a dispassionate way since they have already made the normies upset.

Yeah, I saw in Ryan Faulk’s video and a couple of books written by philosophers that intelligence researchers think that genes do play a role in the black/white IQ gap. This suggests that, as you pointed out, the claim that race differences in intelligence are 100% environmental is completely rejected by scientists working in the relevant fields.
 
What books have you read on white nationalism in general? I finished reading Paved with Good Intentions by Jared Taylor a couple of weeks ago. Currently, I’m reading Michael Levin’s book Race Matters, and plan to read more books on this subject. If there is any information you’d recommend that I check out, let me know!

I'm glad this issue is being discussed. I've been thinking about this topic off and on for seven months now. This is a huge and complex topic, and neither the hereditarian or environmentalist view on race and IQ is obvious to me. Arriving at answers on these questions is extremely important. If the race realist view is true, for example, then this does suggest politicians in the U.S. should restrict immigration to high IQ nations such as Japan or South Korea. As Nathan Cofnas pointed out to me in an email exchange, Garett Jones's book, Have Mind, shows that the economic prospects of a nation are closely tied to its average IQ. This is because higher-IQ societies tend to function better for a variety of reasons. One important factor is that people with high IQs make better voters: they support better policies and are better at holding their leaders accountable, which reduces corruption. If race realism is true, then it's plausible that, at least for the foreseeable future, immigration policies that reduce the average IQ of the US will tend to have a negative effect on economic development and corruption.