eugenics
As autumn's cool winds blow through Dixie, I'm lacing up my boots and planning a multi-pronged attack on my upcoming RACE project.
One of the main themes will be an examination and (it seems likely) systematic refutation of this silly religious belief known as EQUALITY.
Which brings us, naturally, to EUGENICS.
Do you believe that breeding has any effect on the following human traits?
...Physiology
...Intellectual Ability
...Temperament
While you're chewing on that and baking your souffle of witty answers, I'm going to dredge up segments of an old post to unmask a GIANT logical fallacy which seems ubiquitous these days. One of the mantras endlessly hummed by the anti-racists goes something almost identical to this:
That statement is always used as some blanket proof of equality.
Let's dismantle it carefully.
Here's why the statement is deceptive: Differences between highs and lows WITHIN a group do not discount or magically wash away differences between group AVERAGES.
Let's say the best hitter for the Boston Red Sox bats .350. And, oh, let's say their worst hitter bats .150. And, fuck, let's say the team's batting average is .250.
With me?
And let's say the Yankees' best hitter bats .375, their worst hitter bats .325, and the team averages .350.
So...the difference between the Red Sox's best and worst hitters is a steep 200 points, while there's only 100 points between the teams' averages.
Does this...even for a second...mean the Red Sox and Yankees are equal at batting?
Not if you aren't a moron.
The Yankees, on average, still bat 100 points better than the Red Sox, and you'd be a fool not to put your money on the Yankees. The fact that there's a 200-point difference between the best and worst hitters on the Red Sox is ENTIRELY irrelevant to this fact.
Duh!
I've also noticed a tendency for people who make THIS statement...
"Differences within any group are greater than those between groups."
...to also turn around and point out the differences in AVERAGE income between blacks and whites, while avoiding the fact that the above statement would probably be true ECONOMICALLY.
Let's phrase it this way:
"Economic differences within any group are greater than those between groups."
If Oprah [a billionaire] is compared to a homeless black, then one compares AVERAGE incomes between blacks and whites in America, the above statement is also true.
The same people who use this "differences within groups are greater than those between groups" to somehow discount notions of innate GENETIC differences NEVER—at least, not as far as I've seen—are brave enough to apply the same reasoning to economic differences.
Assholes. That's why I'm doing this project. No one seems honest about race these days.
