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Posted by JayMan on Tue Apr 5 23:47:39 2011, in response to Re: Why Does Everything Suck?, posted by Easy on Tue Apr 5 22:05:45 2011. I know, but the volume of your posts on the subject is just too much.It's taken me that long to get my point across. (I still may not have done that, it might seem.) The fact that I have found so many instances to insert the topic in the discussion here (almost all my posts about IQ have been responses to other posts) demonstrates its importance to real world social policy. People are going to be offended and even worse. If Galileo was worried about that... Facts don't change regardless of who likes them or who does not. We need to be cognizant of the facts and appreciate the implications. Also as seen in this thread it's a sensitive topic and imo you approach it too clinically and dispassionately without any regard for the way that it may be interpreted. And I could approach it no other way if I wanted it to be understood as a serious treatment of what is factual and just some crazed ideological rant or emotional campaign. Hopefully impressionable younger black kids aren't reading your posts. As I said there are smart people in all races and all individuals should be judged on their own merits and not of their group average. All of us, regardless of who we are, have to learn to accept that there are people who are smarter/better/stronger/tougher than we are. We all must learn accept this and perform anyway. I don't think that young blacks will be harmed by knowing what their group average is, for that has no meaning for them as individuals. The taboo against talking about racial differences, not just in IQ, is more a social mores born out of revulsion to the actions of slavery, the Nazis and segregation. This taint has set back research into human differences of all sorts, not just races, but between genders and individuals. Race differences are just the last ones to catch up. But, and sooner rather than later, this taboo will collapse under its own weight as the evidence continues to pour in. Like it or not we will all have to deal with it, I personally see no reason in continuing to pretend. |
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