Originally written on last.fm, to be viewed in original context [here].
1: I myself am vehemently against common racism.
2: This is formally criticism on this very last.fm group.
All right, if one looks at the intro of that group, we see their stance against racism. Only at no single point do they argue why racism is ‘bad’, it’s a self-evident truth for them. This is how most people think, in fact, laws are made upon it, and never has any person tried to argue why racism is ‘bad’. It’s just a self-evident truth no one dares to question in western society.
You get in trouble in this country for racist outlets in public, and no one takes the effort of arguing nor explaining why racism is a ‘bad’ think. This is just the same as the inquisition, blasphemy about God in inherently bad and you will be punished for it and arguments to why it’s bad we will not give, it’s just not-done.
Of course we are inclined to believe that racism is inherently ‘bad’, just as the inquisition was inclined to believe blasphemy was inherently ‘bad’, and just as people were inclined to believe without arguments that letting women vote is inherently bad. And just as people have believed videogames are bad for children which has now shown to not be true. Or more recently, how RSI is caused which turns out to be unrelated to how much time you spend behind the computer, people just assumed it without arguments… can we for once learn from our past mistakes?
No, we can’t. That’s the problem with humanity, it’s inability to learn from past mistakes which are in a trendy new coat and thereto different from the untrained eye, but in fact of a logically equivalent form. Every-time people will say ‘It’s different now.’ and not being able to argue why. Now I hope you realize the inquisition felt when they burnt people at the stake which you find hard to comprehend why probably. They felt exactly about how you feel what should happen to Nazis, and said Nazis feel the same as the people burnt at the stake, misunderstood, there isn’t listened to them, people assume they are wrong from the moment on they say they are Nazi.
Of course, it’s true a large deal the things Nazi say simple aren’t true from a scientific perspective, of course the holocaust happened, thereto can be argued. Of course being black isn’t infectious or some-thing, thereto we can argue. However when they say black people are ‘inferior’, that is strictly an opinion. It’s like attacking some-one on that said person doesn’t like the Mona Lisa as much as the David and you like them in reverse order.. really, what race is better is a personal opinion. Also, as a quick reminder. We can logically argue to that the concept of ’species’ cannot exist via the reductio ad absurdum. And biology still desperately holds on to it.. Also, denying the holocaust is über bad while the majority of the world still doesn’t believe in evolution? Get real.. we have more urgent matters at hand.
Also, a lot of time, scientific truth is withheld for the sake of it appearing racist. Yes, there are genetic differences in the averages of capabilities of races. Yes, Asians are genetically smarter than all the other races, and yes, African races have the most physical endurance/stamina. This has long been shown by good, reproducible scientific investigations. In fact, it would be highly unlikely that there wouldn’t be a correlation in races with abilities on about every point, we are free to acknowledge some dog breeds are simply better fit for running courses but not this? Come one, there would be a complex system which has a unstable property which would be in equilibrium if all races were alike on all capabilities. That’s comparable to dropping a cone from a skyscraper in heavy wind. Watching it make hundreds of twists and have it fall on the street on its tip and stay in balance.
However, we must take importance in that we cannot calculate the mechanisms behind why some races outdo others in certain fields. We cannot predict a complex system. It’s chaos theory, we can’t calculate if we drop a cone to which side it will fall. We can measure to which side it falls if we stand on the bottom of the scraper.
But, I’m against judging people on races because it’s a correlation, not an absolute scale. And the problem people have in this is that they tend to classify people into three categories subconsciously: Race, Gender, Age. It’s extremely obvious, all laws are based on it. Even positive discrimination, like the effort of getting as much females as males into high positions. Because people immediately notice if some-one is male or female, and not for instance length.. people in high positions are averagely taller… but people don’t classify in length, so no laws are made to get the mean people in high positions on average length. People class in races, we can put forth a thousand of classes in which correlations emerge, why pick race specifically of all? People think in races subconsciously.. that while races is a continuous scale even, just like species.
This journal has been submitted to the group, I hope they can take some criticism and allow it.