To be clear, I think my other reply to this comment should be read at a meta-level. I'm frankly astounded that HN is a moderated community and yet comments containing an overtly racialized (S America / African) causal theory of intelligence aren't flagged away.
These ideas don't hold any capital in scientific communities. There really is no intellectual debate to be had here. More-over, allowing these comments to stay (in the presence of a moderation mechanism) is extremely unwelcoming.
Despite the continued presence of crackpots claiming the existence of empirical/scientific evidence that women are inherently feeble-minded in mathematics, in science, or in general, I've seen such comments get down-voted to oblivion or flagged away. So why are equivalent comments about South Americans and Africans tolerated?
These ideas don't hold any capital in scientific communities. There really is no intellectual debate to be had here. More-over, allowing these comments to stay (in the presence of a moderation mechanism) is extremely unwelcoming.
Despite the continued presence of crackpots claiming the existence of empirical/scientific evidence that women are inherently feeble-minded in mathematics, in science, or in general, I've seen such comments get down-voted to oblivion or flagged away. So why are equivalent comments about South Americans and Africans tolerated?