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Yeah, white supremacists usually do their best to ignore that part. Do you believe race to be a real thing? Like there is some unifying trait between "white" p

Yeah, white supremacists usually do their best to ignore that part. Do you believe race to be a real thing? Like there is some unifying trait between "white" people or between "black" people, besides a vague notion of skin colour and cultural similarity? Bear in mind that Italians and Irish used to be called nonwhite, that there are numerous different ethnicities in both Europe and Africa (including many African ethnicities that you likely would not call "black"), and that its extremely hard to isolate ethnic causes of variance from cultural ones?

adwn 5y ago
> Do you believe race to be a real thing? "Race" as in "the color of the skin allows statistically significant predictions about physical and mental aptitude"? No, that's a stupid categorization, because it's far too wide and imprecise. However, I do believe there are (small) genetic differences between subpopulations from different geographic origins. For example, it's hard to deny that Kenyans have an unmatched edge in long distance running, one which can't be explained using non-genetic factors.
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  Yeah there are small genetic differences between ethnicities. Things like height, bone density, certain conditions like sickle cell anemia etc. However, that's a different claim altogether from the idea that white and black people (again, an imaginary category) have a statistically significant difference in average intellectual capacity.
  - gruez 5y ago
    >However, that's a different claim altogether from the idea that white and black people (again, an imaginary category) have a statistically significant difference in average intellectual capacity. 1. what counts as "statistically significant difference"? A 0.01% increase can be statistically significant if your sample size is high enough. 2. Going back to a few comments ago, why do you think that differences can materialize between ethnicities, but the differences stop at the brain?
jhgb 5y ago
> Do you believe race to be a real thing? That's a very loaded question because the word has like six different meanings depending on who you're talking to.

adwn 5y ago

> Do you believe race to be a real thing? "Race" as in "the color of the skin allows statistically significant predictions about physical and mental aptitude"? No, that's a stupid categorization, because it's far too wide and imprecise. However, I do believe there are (small) genetic differences between subpopulations from different geographic origins. For example, it's hard to deny that Kenyans have an unmatched edge in long distance running, one which can't be explained using non-genetic factors.

beaconstudios 5y ago
Yeah there are small genetic differences between ethnicities. Things like height, bone density, certain conditions like sickle cell anemia etc. However, that's a different claim altogether from the idea that white and black people (again, an imaginary category) have a statistically significant difference in average intellectual capacity.
- gruez 5y ago
  >However, that's a different claim altogether from the idea that white and black people (again, an imaginary category) have a statistically significant difference in average intellectual capacity. 1. what counts as "statistically significant difference"? A 0.01% increase can be statistically significant if your sample size is high enough. 2. Going back to a few comments ago, why do you think that differences can materialize between ethnicities, but the differences stop at the brain?

jhgb 5y ago

> Do you believe race to be a real thing? That's a very loaded question because the word has like six different meanings depending on who you're talking to.