Slop.

Do not let the armies of bile-spewing neofascists on social media fool you into thinking that neofascist intellectuals are nonexistent; any movement can gain intellectuals. That being said, while Kirkegaard has at least some of the form nailed down, he is too clumsy to manipulate anybody who is not already inclined to agree with his politics.

For starters, Kirkegaard does not build up to his conclusions by seducing his audience with a series of facile truths, like a more competent manipulator would. Instead, he trusts his audience to already agree with the dubious conclusion that intelligence is measurable rather than a matter of opinion. Simultaneously, he trusts his audience to take evolutionary psychology without a grain of salt.

Kirkegaard also makes the amateur mistake of letting his mask of professionalism slip by injecting his research with subjective language or, in other articles, taking potshots at somebody. Although it is less prominent in this particular entry, I think that we can still see something that clearly does not belong here:

This suggests some kind of confounding factor, e.g. Asians living in more removed or sexually liberated places (choose your own description!).

Of course, the elephant in the room here is the author’s laughworthy assumption that preference for certain body parts is in any way correlated to intelligence. What is to stop somebody with (say) a doctorate from preferring buttocks over breasts? The answer is nothing. Contrary to what evolutionary psychologists believe, there are plenty of ordinary men (including White men) who are otherwise attracted to women yet simply do not find breasts sexually arousing, as Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach documented in Patterns of Sexual Behavior.

However, the crux of Kirkegaard’s tosh is not merely that favouring breasts over buttocks likely means that you are ‘more intelligent’, but that your race is ‘more intelligent’. Yes, White supremacists, not being satisfied with disparaging other ethnicities as ‘unintelligent’, also feel the bizarre need to disparage their sexual preferences. I can only assume that neofascists see something ‘homosexual’ and therefore ‘weak’ or ‘feminine’ about favoring buttocks over breasts, because otherwise I am unsure what they hope to accomplish here. I have no doubt that they feel entitled to police others’ sexual preferences, but that does not explain why they would devote any attention to this.