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I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. There is a gene for basketball--it's called being tall and fairly muscular. There's a reason why there are very few great As

I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. There is a gene for basketball--it's called being tall and fairly muscular. There's a reason why there are very few great Ashkenazi basketball players, and it's not racism or culture.

chii 6y ago
> There is a gene for basketball--it's called being tall and fairly muscular so then by that logic, you can argue why there are so few whites in basketball must be that they aren't as tall and muscular.
- downerending 6y ago
  I think most basketball fans would agree with that argument.
  - chii 6y ago
    And yet when there's little or no representation of one race in one area of human endeavour, it's OK and accepted. But in another endeavour, it's frowned upon and spell racism.
    - the_omegist 6y ago
      Even more visible than basketball and totally genetically admitted : 100m race. Even the most gene-allergic person will have trouble denying perhaps predisposition for speed can be unequally distributed among different races. But genes would magically stop having any meaningful effect above the waist...
      - DanBC 6y ago
        You may be interested in reading Superior: The Return of Race Science which is a comprehensive debunking of your racist ideology. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superior-Return-Science-Angela-Saini/dp/0008341001 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superior-Return-Science-Angela-Sain...
        the_omegist 6y ago
        It's always nice when people react rationally... I think you mean my science-based and rational ideology. Either you explain where my logic is failing or you have nothing to teach me.
    - imtringued 6y ago
      Professional sports is a competitive industry where absolute performance is irrelevant. Only relative performance counts. In cooperative industries like engineering and software development only absolute performance counts. As long as someone is competent enough to be able to bring in enough money to pay for food and rent they will be hired and since that is such an incredibly low bar there is no reason to exclude "less skilled" people who perform 3.4% worse than the best. Those "less skilled" people are more important than the top performer simply because they are in the majority. Having 10 competent people is better than only having the best person for the job.

chii 6y ago

> There is a gene for basketball--it's called being tall and fairly muscular so then by that logic, you can argue why there are so few whites in basketball must be that they aren't as tall and muscular.

downerending 6y ago
I think most basketball fans would agree with that argument.
- chii 6y ago
  And yet when there's little or no representation of one race in one area of human endeavour, it's OK and accepted. But in another endeavour, it's frowned upon and spell racism.
  - the_omegist 6y ago
    Even more visible than basketball and totally genetically admitted : 100m race. Even the most gene-allergic person will have trouble denying perhaps predisposition for speed can be unequally distributed among different races. But genes would magically stop having any meaningful effect above the waist...
    - DanBC 6y ago
      You may be interested in reading Superior: The Return of Race Science which is a comprehensive debunking of your racist ideology. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superior-Return-Science-Angela-Saini/dp/0008341001 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superior-Return-Science-Angela-Sain...
      - the_omegist 6y ago
        It's always nice when people react rationally... I think you mean my science-based and rational ideology. Either you explain where my logic is failing or you have nothing to teach me.
  - imtringued 6y ago
    Professional sports is a competitive industry where absolute performance is irrelevant. Only relative performance counts. In cooperative industries like engineering and software development only absolute performance counts. As long as someone is competent enough to be able to bring in enough money to pay for food and rent they will be hired and since that is such an incredibly low bar there is no reason to exclude "less skilled" people who perform 3.4% worse than the best. Those "less skilled" people are more important than the top performer simply because they are in the majority. Having 10 competent people is better than only having the best person for the job.