Explain why racism is wrong...

[UltimateUnknown]

richardhutnik said:

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?

Then that would be fact. If for some reason for example all black people had longer legs than all white people, then black people having longer legs than white people would be a fact just like a proton being made of two up quarks and a down quark, while a neutron is made of one up quark and two down quarks. Also in that case you would have no grounds of "insulting" someone for an attritube they were born with which they had no option in deciding. It is a fact that someone who is born handicapped can not walk while the majority of us can walk normally. But that doesn't give you, me or anyone else who can walk the right to insult the handicapped for not being able to walk, for he/she had no choice in the matter. Insulting someone for almost all reasons to me personally is wrong, but insulting someone for something they are born with is just plain dumb.

Racism although is quite the contrary where people make either false or untestable accusations on individuals based on stereotypes and people are victimised due to irrational fears or some kind of vague sense of superiority which are unfounded. This is why racism occurs mostly from what I have seen.

So my point here is, even if it is an empirical fact that you are born more gifted than others, which we do see everyday where certain people have more IQ or capability of learning or have more physical strength than others, it doesn't give you the right to insult or be tyrranical towards them, because neither you nor them chose to be born the way you were born.