“LibCaps often have trouble recognizing entrenched power except when it comes attached to some governmental office. This may also explain why in recent years some writers associated with the libcap movement have been attracted to theories of innate sexual and racial superiority. If women and minorities systematically lose out on the market, despite the absence of explicitly discriminatory laws aimed at impeding their success then this failure cannot be the fault of the beloved market-so perhaps it indicates inherent inferiority!”

That women and minorities lose out on the market isn’t by itself proof of some inherent disadvantage. On this much I agree. I disagree however with dismissing a priori the possibility of biological racial and gender differences existing and having some, smaller or greater, effect on the success of women and minorities.

If you embrace the dogma of biological egalitarianism, as many on the Left do, then you may become, like LibPops, “susceptible to the suggestion that perhaps it is the wrong cultural or ethnic groups that have gotten in power” –in this case “Straight White Males”.

This is great, Roderick. For some reason this post doesn’t show up yet on my feed at Google Reader, so I can’t share it.