/sci/ - Science & Math

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>Racism has no scientific legitimacy

Correct. But it's scientific illegitimacy has nothing to do with what follows in your post. It has to do with moral worth. The core problem of any racist ethos involves depreciating the moral worth of other races. Rationalizations behind such claims *can't* involve intelligence, or even aggression apropos of nothing-- only a race's capacity for suffering can justify it. This is the ONLY thing that truly makes racism dangerous (that, and peoples fear of it). Blacks can be stupid, whites can be stupid. That's the point of morality, we're free to be what we are and still count. We can even be aggressive, it's part of being a mammal. The question is: are blacks and whites capable of suffering? if yes, then they are worthy of moral concern, period.

The claims of rushton, the results of iq tests, none of these things justify moral depreciation. They can't. Likewise, being intelligent and peaceful, doesn't justify you're moral worth either. Suffering does.

Anti-racists can be dangerous in this regard. Argue as if this morality isn't at the heart of this, and you prime yourself to either win the argument, or lose it, for all the wrong reasons.