Racial realists , anyone out there?

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I'd put money on the fact that over a period of X thousand years a society has valued different things. Among Ashkenazi Jews as it was explained earlier, there were 2 things that gave high status in the community, being a Torah and Talmud scholar or being a good business man. This lead to the children of Torah and Tamud Scholars marrying the children of good business men, both professions that favor those with high intelligence. As a successful scholar or business man was better off and more likely to raise more children to maturity, this means that over time the genes of these people were selectively bred over time. This is if you accept that intelligence has a genetic component.

Think about "talent" if you believe that someone can have talent in a field you believe that biology plays a part. If there is no biological component involved that makes a guy like Stephen Hawking have an IQ in excess of 160, that makes some people able to remember better than average or someone run faster than average, then everyone should be able to calculate what Stephen Hawking does, remember PI to the Xth decimal and run a 100m sprint as fast as Usain Bolt with enough practice.

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( response 1 ) Hey Vigilians , be sure to include "the evidence/hypothesis/etc is given at the beginning" before someone responds to you.

( response 2 ) I don't care because your just appealing to authority.

( response 3 ) What in particular did you find not particularly convincing? Also your what I'm seeing here is if A is true because "it is known to be different" then B is not true because "the big difference isn't justified". Therefore A is not true because "the argument ( which includes the premises ) is not convincing". This does not follow from the set of premises because if A is true but B is false , why judge the whole argument to be wrong? Also consider this: A or B , I know A is true but I don't know if B is true therefore A is not B. Also known as affirming the disjunct.

As it was said in the feminism thread: if people have "natural roles" along racial lines, then why are you taking such pains to enforce them? You wouldn't think "natural roles" would need enforcing.

This thread is full of sickeningly ignorant and bigoted rhetoric and I'm done with it. I recommend you look up some websites on race and inequality and start educating yourself on the problem that is racism.

Aww don't go , I was going to point out your flaws in your argument.

DuneyBlues - resorting to jibes and snarky comments is enough indication for me that you've not only run out of arguments, but you've run out of patience too - which is an opportune time to lock this thread before it descends even lower.