As I've started the Goldberg book, I want to make just a slight comment based on my prior one, regarding the racial SAT scores, seeing them out of context I assumed some kind of Quillette argument, it's not, it's actually nothing of the sort. I won't go so far as to say it's the complete opposite, but he was actually using it in the context of how people draw conclusions from certain groups by comparing them to whites while never considering the "average" of whites to apply individually to any individual white person. (Let alone the fact that we basically never break down whites into sub categories on these things.) The specific usage of the SAT scores was to point out what he finds as the illogic of affirmative action for doing this very thing, which while a typical POV, was not surprising or new for Goldberg as him buying completely into the whole SAT/IQ/Quillette argument would have been and initially made me wonder if he had totally gone mad due to Trump.
I do have two other further comments though from what I have read. First of all, he yet again says he could never be a libertarian because they "fail to appreciate that there are social benefits to the state's monopoly on violence." You're not supposed to do it that way, you're supposed to admit you're a libertarian and claim Nock and the others aren't TRUE libertarians. Come on Jonah, just admit it finally, Ron Paul loves God too if that's still your hangup. (Also according to what I read on reason.com recently, neo-conservatives took over the LP in 2016 and you used to sorta like them!)
Second, filler must have had this book before me. In one section, Jonah is listing historical groups against groups, "Catholics vs. Protestants, rural vs. city" and so on, and one he lists is "everyone vs. the Jews" and someone... SOMEONE... crossed that one out and wrote "OH, PLEASE!" with a red pen.
