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Posted by JayMan on Tue Apr 5 21:52:50 2011, in response to Re: Why Does Everything Suck?, posted by Easy on Tue Apr 5 20:55:50 2011. Actually, recognition of race differences in intelligence has real consequences, having enormous implications for social policy, as I said here:You'll see me talk about race a lot, while ardently combating racism. I talk about race and race differences because it does explain a lot of the issues with society, and heavily impacts policy, from the obvious things like immigration and to education, to less obvious segments like taxation, poverty—both on a national and global scale, health care, socialism, perhaps even the financial meltdown. Race does matter. Where political and social commentators make their mistake—particularly conservatives—is that you criticize ills suffered by darker people and act as if the fact that they are darker people has nothing to do with the problem (because to suggest so [would] be so racist). Unfortunately that's not productive. One big one is education. Teachers are the constant victims of blame for failing to narrow the achievement gap, which is the gap in score between black and brown people vs whites and E. Asians, a gap, which in reality, is no fault of anyone involved, and cannot be narrowed in the foreseeable future. But we continue to focus our educational policy all around the gap—literally all around it, and inflict all manner of misery on society: How to fix America's worst schools - CSMonitor.com Here's a little insight of what it is like on the inside of public policy on this matter: http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doc_id=1310 The matter of cognitive ability, particularly the disparity in such, is a huge issue in country that will soon be majority colored. It affects many aspects of society from where people choose to live, how much taxes people pay, how much government spends and to where our political debate lies (as I'll explain in more detail later, I suspect that one reason American politics is so far to the right vis-a-vis the other developed countries in the world is because we have a large segment of black and brown people). |
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