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> How are intellectual pursuits different from sports pursuits, especially when it's one specific intellectual pursuit? And again, you make the jump from "white
by beaconstudios 5y ago
> How are intellectual pursuits different from sports pursuits, especially when it's one specific intellectual pursuit? And again, you make the jump from "white people are better at programming than black people" to "white people are more intelligent than black people".
Can you name a reason that two populations that only differ in racial category would differ on average in programming capability that isn't rooted in mutable things like culture, socioeconomic status etc? You're aggressively missing my point.
> Again, I don't understand why you're defending the idea that if there are immutable differences between people, one group must dominate the other.
The fuck are you talking about? Point to a single thing I said that defends racial dominance (you can't). Correct me if I'm wrong but you appear to be taking the position that white people /are/ innately more intelligent than black people but we should ignore that. My position is that they aren't, and even if they were we still shouldn't dominate others.
Every other argument you've trotted out here are essentialist about intelligence, that some races and some classes are more intelligent than others. That's a pretty reactionary position, and I don't think it's one you can be argued out of because it is axiomatic rather than empirical.
- Zababa 5y ago> Correct me if I'm wrong but you appear to be taking the position that white people /are/ innately more intelligent than black people but we should ignore that. My position is that they aren't, and even if they were we still shouldn't dominate others. No, I'm not taking that position at all. My position is the same as yours I think: I don't think white people are more intelligent than black people, and even if they were, that wouldn't give white people any rights over black people.
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