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<\/a><\/p>\nWe’ve been hearing a lot about Jason Richwine’s racist views about Hispanics and immigration. \u00a0Richwine is\u00a0the co-author of the widely discredited–even by\u00a0other conservative think tanks<\/a>—Heritage Foundation report<\/a>\u00a0and the author of the infamous\u00a0dissertation<\/a>\u00a0in which he calls Hispanics stupid. \u00a0I’m not going to go into the \u00a0particulars of that argument because lots of other people<\/a>\u00a0have already\u00a0done so<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0done it well<\/a>. \u00a0It’s also well established that there is a\u00a0sordid history<\/a>\u00a0of trying to link IQ and race in the service of racism.<\/p>\n What we haven’t been hearing so much about is Jason Richwine’s racist views about Asians. \u00a0Just because Jason Richwine doesn’t call Asians “stupid” in his dissertation doesn’t mean those views aren’t racist. \u00a0According to Richwine’s data, Asians are the ideal immigrants because they are smarter – smarter even than “native whites.” \u00a0(As a researcher, this was the first time I ever encountered the term “native whites.” \u00a0I didn’t realize “native whites” existed. \u00a0Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians are the only native populations I’m aware of in the United States and they are definitely not white.) \u00a0Also according to Richwine’s data, among “native whites,” Asians “decrease trust” (Richwine’s language) less than blacks and Hispanics. \u00a0One can conclude that what Richwine really means to say is the way white society treats blacks and Latinos is not because of racism, it’s because Latinos and blacks are stupid.<\/p>\n The progressive Asian American community has been pretty silent about the Richwine affair. \u00a0However, Asian Americans on the right have weighed in. \u00a0Michelle Malkin, conservative America’s most vocal Asian American,\u00a0posted a strong defense<\/a>\u00a0of Richwine disparaging anyone who questioned the validity of his dissertation. \u00a0Malkin in her post was very certain that people who were critiquing Richwine’s dissertation hadn’t even read it. \u00a0Well, I read it and it is as alarming as everyone says it is. \u00a0Perhaps Malkin felt obliged to defend Richwine since she\u00a0received a Heritage Foundation award<\/a>\u00a0less than a month ago for “excellence in journalism.”<\/p>\n Richwine would probably also find a friend in Steven Hsu, a theoretical physicist by training who is currently searching for an intelligence gene. \u00a0Even though mainstream science has pretty much scrapped the notion that race has any kind of biological basis long ago, that hasn’t stopped Steven Hsu from trying to link intelligence with race<\/a> and getting a billion and a half dollars for research based in China<\/a>. \u00a0It’s easy to brush aside the eugenicist views of Hsu and Richwine as being far outside the mainstream, except that Hsu was recently\u00a0on NPR<\/a>. \u00a0The topic? \u00a0Superbabies.<\/p>\n Perhaps one of the most disturbing aspects of Richwine’s dissertation is that his recommendations are very similar to some parts of the immigration bill before Congress. \u00a0Although he plainly wants “IQ selection” to determine immigration eligibility, he recognizes there are “practical difficulties.” \u00a0Richwine offers a recommendation for coding IQ language to make it more palatable: \u00a0“drop the use of the word\u00a0IQ<\/em>\u00a0and replace it with\u00a0skill<\/em>.” (Italics Richwine’s.) \u00a0If you replace the word\u00a0skill\u00a0<\/em>with the word\u00a0IQ<\/em>\u00a0in the current immigration discussion, what results is pretty scary. \u00a0That discussion would revolve around courting high-IQ (not high-skill) workers to immigrate to the U.S., exactly mirroring Richwine’s dissertation.<\/p>\n