the-pi-guy said:
Disliking becoming a racial minority isn't racist? -It's not racist to think that your country should be mostly white? -It's not racist to think black people are dumber than whites? "blacks have an average IQ of 85." How is that not racist? |
Of course it depends on what definition of racism you use.
1. But the vast majority when they talk about racism mean that somebody justifies discrimination, to treat another person worse, on the basis of race.
2. A milder definition is that racism is the idea that some races are somehow superior to others, but it doesn't necessarily justify unfair treatment of anybody else.
3. A third definition is that racism is the idea that humans kan be separated into several races and there exists differences between races.
I reject number 3. That's not racism and doesn't reflect the popular view of what constitutes racism.
I personally don't see number 2 as racism, but I realize that many do.
So if you don't specify your use of the word racism most people will assume you mean number 1. And there was no suggestion of mistreatment on the basis of race in that video.
The claim that blacks have an average IQ of 85 falls under category 3. Unless you add to that claim further, because treating other races unfairly doesn't automatically follow from that claim. If science would prove that that claim was true would everyone become a racist?
Are you a speciesist because you think dogs are smarter than cows? I don't think you are. But if you claim that dogs should be given more value and be treated better than cows based on their biological difference to cows then you are a speciesist.
