re: #14 Solomon2

I am a history buff. I know that our current nobody-mention-racial-characteristics is merely a contemporary pretense. Differences between peoples - how they think, personal inclinations, physical prowess, inclination to intellectual achievement, acceptable social conduct - do exist. By today’s standards recognizing this by interacting with different peoples on this basis earns one the derogatory label of “racist”.

Nonsense.

We do talk about differences, Bill Gates is a better business man than I am, Steve Nash plays better Basketball than I do, Lady Gaga sings a lot better than I do.

What is a problem is when differences that rightly apply to individuals are applied to groups, groups I might add that are incredibly diverse in all of the traits and abilities you listed. All racial groups are defined arbitrarily, the borders are fuzzy and ill defined. Take any one of the currently defined four races and you’ll find a range of those traits you’ve specified that is greater than the range of traits between an average member (based on any given trait) of that group and any other.

BTW, being a history buff does not give you the putative lofty state of an authority.

Oh, yah, I suggest you stop reading crap like ‘The Bell Curve’.