Unfriending due to Political Differences

[StarDoor]

Final-Fan said:

StarDoor said:

Are you saying that you are no more genetically related to your parents than to someone on the other side of the planet? Your argument is the equivalent of saying that your family doesn't exist. Race is just family writ large based on genetic similarity. Distinct population groups do exist among humans; we've experienced 50 to 100 thousand years of evolution in separate environments. It's insane to argue that evolution shaped skin pigmentation, bone density, skull structure, blood type, disease immunity, bacterial microbiomes, and much more, but left cognitive traits untouched. The only reason that people like you object to this reality is because you think that it somehow justifies the subjugation of other groups of people, a belief that is even more "racist" than anything you assign to the people you disagree with.

If such cognitive differences exist, they are miniscule compared to, and completely obscured by, the natural range of intelligences and the differences caused by upbringing. 

The natural range of intelligences is a valid point, in the sense that a person of any race can be intelligent. It's just that there are differences in the group averages, so we can't expect identical levels of achievement across all races.

As for the differences caused by upbringing, it's far less significant than you think. From Wikipedia: "Various studies have found the heritability of IQ to be between 0.7 and 0.8 in adults and 0.45 in childhood in the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Estimates

Furthermore, there exists a racial gap in SAT scores (highly correlated with g) regardless of family income in the United States:

From the College Board's data, we can see that the poorest whites (978) have scores almost identical to the wealthiest blacks (981), something that cannot be explained by environmental theories.