[jwond]

I’m not particularly upset, and I don’t necessarily disagree with the rest of your comment.

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.

[Dalewyn]

I definitely agree that society should be more open to admitting that certain groups and individuals are better at a given task than others.

We can't make meaningful decisions until we properly understand the reality in which we all live.