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parlezfrans5y ago
Why is Parlia stoking race hatred?
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stealthbeast5y ago
Is merely recognizing this opinion even exists "stoking race hatred"? Look at the votes. The racist side is getting destroyed.
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Sg915y ago
It's not. It's simply recycling questions from the political compass, an online quiz designed to predict a persons political leanings.
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Sg915y ago
This is true for all races. A black man is less prone to skin disorders and cancers than a white man. That's a superior trait.
A white man is less prone blood disorders and is more likely to survive a noval pnumatic epidemic, like Covid-19 for instance.
I don't consider it racist to acknowledge that there are genetic differences in people of different races.
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fraav5y ago
i understand this take, but the wording of the question says "many" qualities, and "compared" implies that it's bit an even scale of superiorities.
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Sg915y ago
It is worded rather suspiciously. I guess it's open to interpretation. I don't think that any singular race is superior to all others as a general rule. We all have something to bring to the table.
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stealthbeast5y ago
I doubt intellect has much to do with race, but there's plenty of other recognizable differences between people of varying races. White people are slightly more likely to die of skin cancer. Black people are slightly more likely to be born with sickle cell anemia. Asian people have slightly higher incidents of strokes. There's TONS of these little advantages and disadvantages.
What I wonder though (as controversial as it is to even bring it up) how much genetics play into temperament. I consider all dogs equal, but a rottweiler on average just doesn't have the same temperament as a french bulldog. I have to think that races that spend enough time by themselves as they historically did would evolve into their own, slightly different, more optimized temperament, depending on their environment. It may be that the difference between a dog breed's temperament to another's is like 20% where humans is like 1%, but I doubt that race has a 0.0% impact on temperament.
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based_person5y ago
I believe people are ultimately individuals who should not be assumed to comply with stereotypes, but it's worth noting that James Watson, the scientist dubbed "the father of DNA", held the position that:
"there is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to maintain equal powers of reason as the universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
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GothicRock5y ago
Medically, yes. Societally, yes and no in every race because it matters in location. But individual rights belong to every single person regardless of race (and sexuality, gender, religion, etc. for that matter)
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Linda4y ago
Not scientifically true, if you look at the blood types or sample groups in most pharmaceutical studies, for example, there is a high marginalization of certain characteristics which can be found in other demographics. Particularly marginalised communities who tend to be people of colour.
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based_person5y ago
What have other races done?
Built mounds out of dirt? Dig holes in the ground? Clumsily stack some sticks in the middle of a river?
Human race all the way, baby.
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Nsoper194y ago
Who is the "Us" in this statement? And what is the metric being used? Basically every race is superior to another in one way, shape or form. So Han Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews have the highest IQs compared to other races whilst both of those races are pretty inferior when it comes to athletic achievement of any kind.
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