Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “There's a lot of inbreeding in Somalia, which affects IQ”
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From the February 24, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): First of all, I mean, if you really wanna play this game, Ilhan, you come from Somalia, and you're saying that Americans are stupid. You know what the average IQ in Somalia is? It's -- take a guess. It's 68. The average IQ is 68. And -- now that estimate comes from a study that was done in the early 2000s, I think. And other studies have tried to debunk it. I don't think any of them have successfully because it's the kind of thing that -- you know, if anyone tries to study this and measure it, you're gonna have the mass of mainstream science descending and saying, no. We can't. That's not allowed. That's -- that has to be not true. We -- it literally has to be. We can't allow that to be true. So there have been a lot of attempts to debunk this, none of them successfully.
But, it also -- when you hear that Somalia, the average IQ is 68, it tracks. It tracks with what we know about Somalia. You know, if I -- if you didn't know anything about Somalia, you never heard of it before, but I just told you that, oh, there's this country called Somalia and the average IQ is 68, you would make a lot of assumptions about what the country must be like. And in Somalia's case, all of those assumptions would turn out to be true.
Somalia is one of the most dangerous and violent countries in the world. It's one of the poorest countries in the world. The per capita GDP in Somalia is like $600. In the U.S., it's $75,000, just as a comparison. Somalia is not a functioning society. It barely even has paved roads. It is a failed state. And, by the way, speaking of the 68 IQ, one of the reasons -- I mean, undoubtedly, one of the reasons for that IQ is the inbreeding in the country. There's a lot of inbreeding in Somalia, which affects IQ. So there's another cultural highlight for you.