I find it interesting that some people now see me as some sort of authority in subjects i normally feel best left to others. It was in that context that i was sent a Youtube PM with the following:
And I'm meant to respond to this how? By Mockery or otherwise?
It isn't quite Rosenberg (as far as I've seen), but my main instinct is to call BS upon the findings of Brand. By the way, I am aware from some quick nosing around on Wiki that the cited author is another one of those Race realists who has published articles in such lowlife journals as the "American Renaissance" and "The Occidental Quarterly".
So What I am really looking for please is a beginners guide into dealing with the claims or to turn this thread into a reference in order to refute "Race realism", Brand and his ilk.
"Politics is weird, and creepy, and now I know lacks even the loosest attachment to anything like reality." - Shep Smith
Modern racism has a deep history of "race realism". From back when eugenics was seen as an innocent science and racism was a "scientific" theory with its base being that the human race is divided into sub races- and these sub races have varied from black - white , rich-poor, Cockney- and well , 'normal', Scottish and English etc.
There is a BBC documentary which i thought was quite good. The History Of Racism
So a racist, who believes that humans are fundamentally subdivided are looking for material proof of there ideology. So when blacks score lower than whites on a general test, or if it is found that for example Israeli Jews fared better than Arab Israelis on an IQ test, then this can appear as proof that humanity is racially divided, that it must be the genetic content of the white, or the Israeli Jew in this case that caused the result, that gave rise to the higher IQ result. And this leads from racial ideas to racism, reinforcing ideas of racial supremacy and superiority.
Can environmental factors explain the difference in IQ. - Yes, Quoting from Wiki again :
The other point on genetics is that race has no scientific basis. A book called 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True has a part on race. Here's the part on genes>
Genes versus races. For those who may think that the science of genetics will somehow validate the concept of race, think again. It certainly has not done so yet, and there is no good reason to think it ever will. If anything, it will continue to make it clear that the traditional race concept doesn't work. In 2010, a paper was published in Nature about the sequencing of sub-Saharan African genomes. One remarkable discovery to come out of that research was that the genetic distance between two bushmen who had lived their entire lives within walking distance of one other was greater than that between any one of them and a typical "white" European or Japanese Asian. Think about this: One of the South Africans and a random "white" European or Japanese Asian are more closely related than the two South Africans are to each other. Now, imagine if we made a police-style lineup with those two South African men, a "white" European, and a Japanese Asian. Which two would most people place into a race together? But while the two South Africans may look very similar on the outside, the biological reality beneath the surface tells a very different story.
So although IQ may be highly hereditary, to think that "blacks" which can include diverse groups of African-Americans, Africans and Australasian aboriginals (and so on) some how share hereditary genetics in contrast to " white" is bunk.
"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil...there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy." Albert Einstein
Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:01 am
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"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil...there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy." Albert Einstein
Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:56 am
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