Odd, that

Professor Colin Blakemore’s courageous defence in the Sunday Times of Dr James Watson’s right to speak and be challenged contained this aside:

Ashkenazi Jews are more prone to a variety of inherited medical conditions (but have higher average IQ than Caucasians, by the way).

This observation prompts two questions. Why is it racist for Watson to say that Africans are less intelligent than Caucasians, but perfectly acceptable for Blakemore to say that Jews are more intelligent? Can Caucasians never be victims of racism?

And why does he say that Ashkenazi Jews are more intelligent than Caucasians when they are Caucasian?