Michael Barone: Group differences don't undermine case against racial discrimination

Should accurate facts be suppressed because stating them will “do a lot of harm”? Yes, writes the thoughtful William Saletan in The Weekly Standard, if the facts are about “racial differences on intelligence tests.”

Writing about the former Google engineer James Damore, fired after he wrote a memo about gender differences, Saletan says that Damore “thinks, as I once did, that if you say group averages don’t warrant prejudgment of individuals, smart people won’t read or apply them that way.”