Hanif Bali raises the IQ question

Published 20 August 2024 at 07.08

Domestic. Hanif Bali (M) states in an editorial in Expressen that it is high time to stop pretending that innate differences in intelligence do not exist.

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Modern research shows that we are largely controlled by our genes and that upbringing and environment play a very limited role.

However, the new scientific understanding of how people are limited by their innate intelligence and other genetically determined characteristics is not reflected in politics. Instead, the dominant ideology throughout the Western world is that everyone is born as “blank slate” and that it must therefore be due to “discrimination” or “socio-economic factors” or the like when things go badly for certain individuals and groups.

< p>The former Riksdag and M politician Hanif Bali now addresses the issue in an editorial in Expressen with the headline “Sweden must break the last big taboo”.

“The Swedish school is based on a myth. Not all children can become academics. Some simply have too low an IQ,” reads the preamble.

He notes that the old idea that talented people are held back by society's structures is no longer true.

“Children with strong cognitive abilities are now overrepresented in groups with stronger socioeconomics. The simple explanation is probably that the working class got their revenge. The talented got an equal chance. They rose from poverty to the prosperity of the bourgeoisie, they married each other and their children achieve today good at school.”

Discussing intelligence in particular when it comes to, for example, how school policy should be conducted is, however, taboo, states Hanif Bali. This despite the fact that it is a “central explanation for today's unequal school results”.

This affects not least students who would have been significantly more helped by a practical education, according to Bali.

“Today's school fails those children who were not born with good analytical skills. And it is quite unnecessary. One can ask why there are such high theoretical requirements to pass in Swedish and thus be able to train as a carpenter, when almost every carpenter in the country only speaks Lithuanian”, he writes and continues: “We have accepted the disgusting idea that everyone must have the same ability to be treated with the same dignity. Simply because the ruling class set the standard that it is without a university qualification a little less worthy.”