> But I find it really offensive when people pretend that intelligence and athletic ability amongst a whole host of other things do not exist along a spectrum and are not genetically influenced.

That's not what people who talk about "HBD" being bad are doing. My comment in response to andrewflnr has more, but the criticism is not that intelligence or athletic ability aren't genetically based at all, it's "HBD"/eugenics focus on genetic heritability to the exclusion of everything else, ignores evidence to the contrary, and does so for the explicit purpose of harming people of other races. They also ignore evidence that while it is variable, that variability is not racially determined, e. g. is not correlated to the genetic differences that create phenotypes we categorize as "races".