Worth noting as well is that HBD in the social sciences has proceeded almost entirely without academic support. For every Henry Harpending, who’s studied the implications of evolutionary theory freely, there are many John Philippe Rushtons, Bruce Lahns, Christopher Brands, and Kevin MacDonalds, all of whom have been attacked by colleagues, administrators, and publishers for reaching politically incorrect scientific conclusions. The “conservative movement” has been particularly rigorous in expelling race realists—and even those concerned with Western Identity—as Kevin Lamb found out. The leading “paleos” are now seemingly embarrassed by the writing of Sam Francis and have dropped sociobiology altogether.
As Steven Pinker observed, racial realism challenges the “assumption that all group-wide social differences (e.g. in crime, poverty, and health) are caused by discrimination or a rigged economic system.” It opposes egalitarianism on the most fundamental level, and doesn’t simply put forth the wishful thinking of conservatives, who claim that Blacks would flourish and racial differences—maybe even race itself—wither away if only affirmative action were abolished and Al Sharpton silenced.
We are the vanguard, and our unspeakable truths are becoming harder and harder to ignore.
How's that for optimism.
P.S.: The situation is analogous to the Austrians' advance in economics: academia is dominated by Keynesians and Chicago School types, but the spirit of "End the Fed" has captured the youth, to the chagrin of David Frum.
