richardhutnik on 31 January 2013
| UltimateUnknown said: Because it is mass stereotyping. There is no scientific study that concludes that every single person in a given race is dumber than the dumbest person in another race. If that was somehow proven to be the case, then you could make an objective claim stating "Race X is superior in IQ in Race Y". That is of course assuming you are taking into account one's innate IQ only and not the intelligence they gain throughout their lifetime, because intelligence can change depending on how much effort a person puts into learning. I of course did not mention subjective things such as "beauty" which no one will unanimously agree on. You'd find that making such a claim of IQ is downright impossible given the fact that we have no absolute way of determining the IQ of a person at birth (at least at the time being) and hence if you made that statement without proof, you'd be bandwagoning people to a stereotype just because a certain set of people act in a certain way. Even if 99 people out of a 100 people acted in a certain way, it'd be wrong to bandwagon that one guy with the other 99 just because they have some other similarity. So the ultimate point is, stop being racist and get to know people and judge them on their individual merit. Humans are all born unique because of the mechanics of genetics itself. |
If it can be shown scientifically that certain people clustered around certain genetic attributes are superior in certain was, would it then be ok to acknowledge that group as a whole is superior to other groups? Is the core objection to racism is that it is not scientifically true, but if it were, then it would be ok to act racist?
