since culture affects average capability at specific tasks.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before you started spouting the "Black people are worse off not because of their genetics, but because of their culture!" card. As if centuries of oppression by whites had no impact on black culture.
I direct you to the extensive writings of Thomas Sowell on the topic, specifically Race and Culture. Oh, and by the way -- he's a Person of Color, so you have to defer to him.
"Sowell was also criticized for an editorial in which he stated that the Democratic Party played the Race card, instigating ethnic divisions and separatism, and argued that a similar situation occurred between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Rwanda."
The unsucessful races have been put off by hard work and seem as beneath them to do it. The races that become sucessful "pay their dues" by hard work and saving that eventually leads to bigger and better things. The races that are not willing to work or save become stuck in their ways and remain poor.
Holy fucking shit is he suggesting black people are disadvantaged because they're lazy? Because that is straight up, 100% racism.
EDIT: Allow me to explain. "Black people are lazy" is a very old racist trope that goes back centuries. It doesn't necessarily have to do with genetics--plenty of white slaveowners thought they were taking black people out of the "barbaric culture" of Africa into the "civilized culture" of the West.
Even if I admit that this culture difference exists, and I'd like to see the data first, the fact that Powell just takes this difference as a brute fact without analyzing why there's a difference shows he's not really interested in ending racism. Again: You think maybe the whole "centuries of oppression" had an impact on this? Perhaps? Maybe?
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Re: Victims
Date: 2012-04-10 08:38 am (UTC)I suppose it was only a matter of time before you started spouting the "Black people are worse off not because of their genetics, but because of their culture!" card. As if centuries of oppression by whites had no impact on black culture.
I direct you to the extensive writings of Thomas Sowell on the topic, specifically Race and Culture. Oh, and by the way -- he's a Person of Color, so you have to defer to him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell#Critical_reception
"Sowell was also criticized for an editorial in which he stated that the Democratic Party played the Race card, instigating ethnic divisions and separatism, and argued that a similar situation occurred between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Rwanda."
Yeah, I think not.
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/pos334/archive/sowell.htm
The unsucessful races have been put off by hard work and seem as beneath them to do it. The races that become sucessful "pay their dues" by hard work and saving that eventually leads to bigger and better things. The races that are not willing to work or save become stuck in their ways and remain poor.
Holy fucking shit is he suggesting black people are disadvantaged because they're lazy? Because that is straight up, 100% racism.
EDIT: Allow me to explain. "Black people are lazy" is a very old racist trope that goes back centuries. It doesn't necessarily have to do with genetics--plenty of white slaveowners thought they were taking black people out of the "barbaric culture" of Africa into the "civilized culture" of the West.
Even if I admit that this culture difference exists, and I'd like to see the data first, the fact that Powell just takes this difference as a brute fact without analyzing why there's a difference shows he's not really interested in ending racism. Again: You think maybe the whole "centuries of oppression" had an impact on this? Perhaps? Maybe?