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To: goldstategop
In a non-racist context, group differences can be frankly summarized as follows: one group is excellent at one sort of pursuit, middling in another and hopeless in another. Just as individuals have geniuses, average folks and idiots. This is admitted both by life, observation and by human nature. (In social science, we're familiar with this as the Bell Curve.) We should aim to treat people in character as equals but treat them differently according to their innate cognitive and physical abilities. That concept offends the very notion of the DZGD dogma, which says every one has the same degree of intelligence, moral upbringing and physical strength. Two examples should illustrate of how absurd is our outlook on group differences. Few blacks are academic superstars but they are athletic wunderkinds. Few women have upper body strength but they are great teachers. Its a general observation of real group differences in the sense that the abilities extend not just across individuals but groups. Just as individuals are not all alike, neither are the groups of which they are members the same in every respect.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

4 posted on 12/02/2006 10:29:12 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
"Few blacks are academic superstars but they are athletic wunderkinds."

The above is for a whole host of reasons, none of which is that Black people innately lack intelligence.

19 posted on 12/02/2006 11:33:40 PM PST by TAdams8591
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To: goldstategop
We should aim to treat people in character as equals but treat them differently according to their innate cognitive and physical abilities. That concept offends the very notion of the DZGD dogma, which says every one has the same degree of intelligence, moral upbringing and physical strength. Two examples should illustrate of how absurd is our outlook on group differences. Few blacks are academic superstars but they are athletic wunderkinds.

But these assumptions can hurt the lives of those who don't fall under their group assigned traits, though not in equal ways. A white person who is stupid but an athletic genius will suffer less by being passed over for the All-Star based on stereotypes than a smart black person who is a poor athlete but is put in the slow class.

Only a few hundred people (almost all men) make their livelihood on their superior athletic ability but millions make their money off of intelligence. From this, it is obvious why few black people see being seen as a dummy but a good athlete as being a positive stereotype.

25 posted on 12/02/2006 11:54:45 PM PST by LWalk18
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