Intelligence & race

hitchki · May 24, 2009, 7:01pm

Ok perhaps I am without realizing it, a blazing racist…but can we take a step back for a moment here? Just for a moment.

The things that are heating up this entire discussion here are things that are relatively “new” in the development of humans as a species. The past, say 1500 years - the great civilizations, the ottomans, the persians, the egyptians, the mayans.

What I’ve been referring to is the time during which we evolved as a species - which took millions of years. There were homo sapiens in hot climates - their skin developed defenses against the sun. There were homo sapiens in rainy and sandy climates - they developed eye-folds to protect their eyes. There were homo sapiens in cold climates and they developed with short stature and an ability to retain fats.

SOOOOO…

My point was that over eons and ages, if the human body adjusts to climate and environment, does this not include development of the brain too? It must.

Like I stated previously, if you look at only the past say 1000 years then sure, race has very little impact on intelligence. But if you take it in context of the past say 15 million years I think it really does. Which is why there is somewhat of a difference…which gets smaller and smaller year by year.

I dont think that this take on things makes me a “blazing racist”…but heck I guess maybe I am. I think heredity is as important as environment, I think everything in your past adds up to make you what you are.

Apologies if I’ve made offensive remarks.

What bothers me, is that your argument isn’t of nature vs nurture, but of how we can extrapolate intelligence from the ratio of ones eyes raised to the power of our skin colour.

You are equating modern-advanced man with MTV whilst ignoring the Native Americans who were slaughtered to allow that dream of manifest-gluttony to be realised.

Also. Let us consider things in perspective, as you wished:

I gave you the Epic of Gilgamesh, you gave me Huckeberry Finn.
I gave you the tablet of Amarna you offer me Mormon.
I gave you Darius whilst you gave me Hitler

(The Frightening Agenda of the American Eugenics Movement)

Let me help you out further:

Beliefs Underlying Racism

It truly if for your sake that I suggest you postulate away from historical facts.. they all point towards the inferiority and barbarism of the wide eyed albino types.