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> East Asians are even higher IQ (perhaps less creative) Less creative? How exactly do you measure this? Or is this your totally non-racist white hunch on ho

> East Asians are even higher IQ (perhaps less creative) Less creative? How exactly do you measure this? Or is this your totally non-racist white hunch on how to classify a third of the population of planet Earth? > Oh, and if you are getting ready to call me a racist (I'm not) This seems to happen often enough that you have a prepared response. You might want to just go with the flow and reclassify yourself as a racist, that way you don't spend half your energy defending yourself against false accusations and can spend time attacking people who aren't white in a more efficient manner.

thras 18y ago
The Left doesn't believe in evolution any more than the Right. There is no magical equality fairy even if it would be a nicer world if so. Still, that is never any excuse to mistreat someone due to their race -- which is what racism really is. All my statements above are about population averages. Some ignorant people (I certainly don't mean you) don't understand that population averages apply to populations, and not to individuals. For example, women are shorter than men, on average, but there are millions of women that are taller than me. Native Americans tend to have a lot of trouble with alcohol (for very simple genetic reasons). On the other hand, many don't. Africans have invested a lot of evolutionary effort into malaria resistence. Sometimes they get it anyway. Europeans have invested in lactose tolerance. My dad can't drink milk. Unsuprisingly brain genes (check out Lahn's papers on ASPM and microcephalin in Mol. Gen.) differ between population groups as well. That doesn't say much about any given individual. It does say a lot about groups.
- chiffonade 18y ago
  > That doesn't say much about any given individual. It does say a lot about groups. Why are you repeating everything I just said?
  - thras 18y ago
    thras~$ grep -c -e "group|individual" chiffonade_comment.txt 0 Ah yes. I was repeating what you said. I see that now. Goodbye.
    - chiffonade 18y ago
      As a programmer, you should be aware of the distinction between syntax and semantics.
      - icey 18y ago
        And people wonder why politics shouldn't be on HN.

thras 18y ago

The Left doesn't believe in evolution any more than the Right. There is no magical equality fairy even if it would be a nicer world if so. Still, that is never any excuse to mistreat someone due to their race -- which is what racism really is. All my statements above are about population averages. Some ignorant people (I certainly don't mean you) don't understand that population averages apply to populations, and not to individuals. For example, women are shorter than men, on average, but there are millions of women that are taller than me. Native Americans tend to have a lot of trouble with alcohol (for very simple genetic reasons). On the other hand, many don't. Africans have invested a lot of evolutionary effort into malaria resistence. Sometimes they get it anyway. Europeans have invested in lactose tolerance. My dad can't drink milk. Unsuprisingly brain genes (check out Lahn's papers on ASPM and microcephalin in Mol. Gen.) differ between population groups as well. That doesn't say much about any given individual. It does say a lot about groups.

chiffonade 18y ago
> That doesn't say much about any given individual. It does say a lot about groups. Why are you repeating everything I just said?
- thras 18y ago
  thras~$ grep -c -e "group|individual" chiffonade_comment.txt 0 Ah yes. I was repeating what you said. I see that now. Goodbye.
  - chiffonade 18y ago
    As a programmer, you should be aware of the distinction between syntax and semantics.
    - icey 18y ago
      And people wonder why politics shouldn't be on HN.