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by the_third_wave
1251 days ago
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Given that he's "accusing" his own race of being less physically capable I can only assume that the same goes for other traits in other races. Have a look at who has been winning long distance running events for the last few decades and you'll quickly find out that people from a certain area - nay, a certain tribe [1] - in Kenya are grossly overrepresented. This is not because they're all using doping like e.g. athletes from the former DDR did, it is because they share a mixture of genes and culture which makes them exceed in this field. Going by the data it seems clear that people from certain areas in the world - mostly in Asia and Europe - share a mixture of genes and culture which makes them exceed in what you call "strenuous intellectual activities" [2]. You seem to be upset over his pointing out this fact. Why is it no problem to point out that these Kenyans are dominating long distance running - even NPR reports about this - but problematic [3] to point out that the Japanese, Swiss, Chinese, Americans and Dutch dominate when it comes to intellectual pursuits? I suspect this is because intellectual pursuits have a higher standing among the "educated" classes who tend to ruminate about these things than physical activities. In a way this itself is problematic just like the way many "educated" people look down upon physical labour is problematic - to use a term often bandied about by those same people. A healthy society needs both those who are more into physical activities as well as those who are more into intellectual pursuits to develop and thrive - this is true diversity. [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/01/241895965/... [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/duncanmadden/2019/01/11/ranked-... [3] https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-problematics/ |
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My comment was more related to the fact that in my experience there are quite a number of people who have no qualms about suggesting that black people are over represented in sports like running and sprinting, professional basketball, and professional football because they are just naturally better athletes, but then will absolutely refuse to even entertain the possibility that some other races or ethnic groups might be naturally better in other fields like science and engineering. I find that sort of thinking rather inconsistent, so I was mostly just probing to see what the person I was replying to believed.
Of course this sort of discussion is going to be controversial since suggesting that a certain ethnic group is naturally better than other ethnic groups in some sense, even if only in certain areas, would seem to fit the traditional definition of racism.