Conscript wrote:None of this is true Tainari. Race is subspecies, and our genetic distance to each other is comparable to species with one or more subspecies. Mixed race children also have intermediate IQs, also twin studies and transracial adoption studies show that black children still have a gap in IQ compared to whites that is either not closing or is so at a snail's pace. There's a similar gap in math and reading scores. Personality traits and political values also are heritable to an extent. There is no reason to be a cultural relativist and assume culture is not tied to genetics, because in the end both culture and gene expression is tied to environment. A Swedish community ceases to be Swedish insofar as it does not have Swedes.
There is nothing about nature that supports the egalitarianism and blank slates you believe in. Some peoples are more compatible with modern liberal-democracy than others.
You are not valid. Blacks are not naturally inferior. You have a continent with millions upon millions of people in it with extreme diversity within any given ethnic group. So much so that it is meaningless to think that that huge pool of people are 'generally inferior'. That is BULLSHIT and unscientific. Genes vary and are mutable. Mutable realities within groups is something that exists across the board.
The lies continue with the natural inferior and superior crap that doesn't deal with huge swathes of individuals with variations that are so difficult to measure and predict that it is impossible. You got very intelligent people in all ethnic groups. To think that blacks dilute the intelligence is falling into some false science.
I don't care about IQ tests. Any standardized tests are going to have flaws. ALL OF THEM.
I can come up with a test for you in a foreign language you don't understand and in an environment totally alien to your experience and then label you a failure. It doesn't mean you are a failure, at any particular thing you are tested for, it means you have limited mastery of that particular set of skills they are looking for. It doesn't deal with many factors. Neuroscience of the brain is fascinating. It basically says our brains have plasticity and are malleable. As such it is an organ that is in constant states of change and adaptability. At all times in our life. Can't measure it accurately in general. You should read "Ghost in the Brain" and "Proust and the Squid" both deal with how the human brain deals with reading, information, and memory. Why all these boxing of the brain tests are not valid. So are race theories of subspecies of shit. Humans adapt. That is what we do. If we adapt? Where does evolution of our species take place? In groups. Individuals don't evolve. But groups do. So far? Have the Africans evolved successfully into this world and into their own environments? Yes. So all these value judgments are placed there by people full of shit theories. Your theories are not valid.
You are invalid. Go back to some racist reality. I won't qualify you with a damn thing.
Read this book and then come back here and tell me your subspecies beliefs are still valid. Basically how it works is this. You throw 10,000 Swedes into an African desert or hot place. The survivors over 100,000 years will be dark skinned. End of controversy. They were once Swedes. You change their environment and the ones who survived the initial shocks of adaptation survive. The ones who don't. Don't.
So all 'human beings', got to cope. In that sense it is truth.
Read this book. Then if you still think Conscript in some pyramid of any single characteristics as universal? You got issues. Also Darwin finally scrapped it as even doable after a while. Even being a 19th century man with 19th century science. He realized it was limiting to be that narrow. It is reality.
https://www.livinganthropologically.com ... unks-race/http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/Graves/Race and genomics, and all this effort in trying to scientifically say that en entire somatic or ethnic group fall neatly into the 'smart ones' and the 'dumb ones' and the best ones, and the bad ones, is the stuff of lying people with no science of any true worth.
Variation is part of humanity. Racial mixing is not something new. It is in fact--normal and human. It keeps everyone with a good set of genes. Intermediate intelligence happens in all ethnicities. It is never relegated to some particular group. Adaptation. Study it. It says, is this land cold? Has little sunlight? What does a body need to adapt to that? Not over a single individual's lifetime. But over thousands upon thousands of years. Why does the species have to adapt to the land and develop variation to survive? That is what you should deal with Conscript and not some conservative racially charged simple theories of why some political and economic system uses to justify class categories.
I think where you go wrong is justifying a natural variation in nature and equating that with a justification for social and economic exploitation or predation of one socioeconomic group over another. You are essentially trying to say that an egalitarian society is not possible and an impossibility because there are people who are born and will be born naturally 'inferior'. Is that what you are saying? If you are? You have no idea what economics limits are in human society.
Two ideal set of parents may have a child that for some reason varies from a norm. You got variation. Why? How does variation help humans survive? If you can explain that to me? Do so. Otherwise if all your arguments are going to be about justifying not dealing with injustice and dealing with economic material conditions within capitalism? No, you won't have much support in research communities dedicated to trying to understand why humans are not the same in all ways. Why vary?
Another thing Conscript, don't assume you know what I believe in. Ask a question if you don't know. How the hell do you know if I believe in blank slate and egalitarianism in nature? Just you assuming that crap Conscript means you are presuming what I know and believe in. You don't. Use the Socratic method and ask a question instead of assuming! Nature is nature. It has nothing to do with politics. The ocean is not conservative or liberal or socialist or communist or fascist. It is the ocean. It follows a natural law and nature based scientifically tested patterns. Not a political thing. Not even human children have political thoughts that solidify until they study it and shape it.
I really really hate people that assume they know what I am about without asking a damn question first. Ask questions.