Conservatives in the United States are jubilant about the Supreme Court overturning "Roe v. Wade", thereby potentially banning abortion in at least half of all US states. The British excentric and gadfly Edward Dutton (alias the Jolly Heretic) has a somewhat different perspective on things, arguing in effect that an abortion ban is dysgenic.
The ban will decrease the general IQ level in the population. Also, more people will be born with psychopathic traits, such as low agreeableness and low conscientiousness. More stupid and unbalanced people means more crime, coupled with a gradual deterioration of health care, schools, and so on. While the higher fertility among conservatives as opposed to liberals will lead to right-wing dominance in the future, it will do so in a general context of lower IQ and general societal decline, eventually leading to the collapse of modern civilization itself.
Dutton doesn´t say anything about Black or immigrant IQ in the clip, but it´s a well known fact that "The Bell Curve", for instance, argued that Blacks have lower IQ than Whites. Perhaps he is afraid of being censored on YouTube, but another possibility is that he (a bit like Theodore Dalrymple) is "colorblind" on these issues. Of course, it would be a very bizarre form of irony if conservative states in the US would end up having more Black poverty and crime as a result of an abortion ban, but I suppose the White supremacists could use this as an "argument" for resuscitating the Ku Klux Klan!
As for Dutton, he comes across as a kind of "nutter" version of said Dalrymple or (the British) John Gray. I might follow this character more in the near future...
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