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> The argument against racism/sexism to which I subscribe is that individuals within all populations vary so dramatically between one another, and individuals f
by MikeUt 5y ago
> The argument against racism/sexism to which I subscribe is that individuals within all populations vary so dramatically between one another, and individuals from every population seem to be capable of manifesting virtually any set of characteristics, that evaluating people as individuals rather than assuming traits from their respective populations is far less error prone.
But that argument concedes populations are different [1]. How does it counter those that say protecting these differences is legitimate?
[1] https://dienekes.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-uniform-sampling-of-human-genetic.html https://dienekes.blogspot.com/2010/07/more-uniform-sampling-...
- ralusek 5y agoThe argument concedes nothing. I'm not asserting that the populations are the same or different. I'm saying that individual variance is sufficient so as to be better off simply dealing with an individual within their own capacities. That would be true given that populations were roughly comparable or weighted differently in their mean capacities.