Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

[JuliusHackebeil]

sc94597 said:

But culture is definitely socially constructed. And culture can run along racial lines as borders. Nothing surprising about that. And cultures are different of course. This would have to mean that some are better at some things and worse at other things. I think this can easyily have a messurable effect on things like education.

Sure, but when we suggest culture is the source of the problem we have to explain the historical and current social forces that shape that culture. 

Thank you for you thoughtfull response. I am still not convinced to call race a social construct. As fas as I can tell by your explanation, it is still biology, just more complicated than most people would presume (-you cannot really neatly categorise people into such broad categories like balck, white, asian and expect to be able to do research on that basis).

I also still think that race could have an effect on intelligence. I tried looking into it for a hot second and found almost nothing (that would speak for or against that theory). I mean, we have to treat people as individuals anyways, so it would not matter much if there is an effect, as far as I can tell. You could still be a genius or a dumbass no matter your background.

But what if culture is the source of differences between races? You say we have to explain the historical and current social forces that shape that culture. This is a little vague for me, because there is no Plan of action attached. What if we can sufficiently explain all the forces that shaped a culture. And then? We would have to try and change the culture, I guess. Don't know how that could work though. I certainly don't think that affirmative action is the way to do it.