[xphilter]

Right. To me you come across as a coward unwilling to be racist in the open. What is intellectual about what you said exactly? You’re ignoring history and the underlying reasons for things to support your cowardly worldview. And please, how did “we” all agree that it’s a “nonsensical assertion” that crime rates only appear to be higher because of overpolicing”? Are you saying there is overpolicing but that it doesn’t artificially raise crime rates? Are you saying there’s no under policing in higher socioeconomic neighborhoods? Are you saying every crime by a white person is policed and accounted for? And every crime by a Black person is policed and accounted for? How do you know all this? You must have a great dataset.

[scollet]

Throw in phrenology to the cocktail and you have a textbook hypocrite.

[twofornone]

You are projecting a lot onto me because you've been conditioned to have a visceral, fundamentally irrational, response to anything remotely fitting your definition of racism. There's nothing cowardly about speaking out against this sort of wokeness carefully enough to avoid being banned. I've said exactly enough to make my point.

200k+ years of divergent evolution, adaptation to drastically different environments, including geographically isolated interbreeding with other non-human homonids, lead to the same genetic differences that allow for accurate and precise geneologic inference from genetic samples, including the unique genetic makeup of african americans relative to other subsaharan african populations.

I'm not denying that history plays a role in the african american's plight. But you are completely dismissing the unpleasant implications of scientifically documented reality, blindly conflating the immoral nature of racial discrimination with the blatantly pseudo-scientific idea that genetic makeup does not influence outcomes on social scales, or worse, buying into the completely nonsensical idea that race doesn't exist. That's some 60 years of "one race human race" propaganda that you have heard for your entire life, so I don't entirely blame you for your naivety.

But evolution did not magically stop above the shoulders. The massive physiological differences - skeletal structure, musculature, heart/lung size, blood differences, body proportion, facial structure - are obvious. But although blindly virtuous individuals like yourself make it social suicide to discuss openly, these same differences are also quite convenient explanations for the variations in average achievement (and criminality) among various genetically distinct demographics. In fact we are aware of hundreds of specific genes, and their relative abundances, which are strongly correlated/anticorrelated with intelligence. Moreover we know of dozens of specific genes which directly and indirectly influence behavior, including the so called warrior gene which has been indisputably shown to completely change the metabolism of monomanines which directly influence behavior, including aggression.

Whether you believe that something is racist has literally zero bearing on whether or not it is a scientific fact. And architecting a society while blindly denying such demonstrated truths can only lead to suboptimal outcomes for all of stakeholders. Don't worry, none of this is an excuse to discriminate against individuals, because we are talking about statistical distributions.

But failing to acknowledge that such genetic differences have at least some degree of influence over disparate outcomes at scale in a perfect meritocracy is pure anti-intellectualism, and I am no coward for standing up to the woke mob.