[quote]Neuromancer wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
You know, all this stuff about racism might simply be related to climate.
People in temperate (cooler) zones tend to be more ambitious and clever, simply because they had to be to survive the climate.
Look at Koreans: the weather is terrible and you’re surrounded by 3 belligerent (historically) powers. No wonder they’re so smart! Japanese, northern Chinese, northern Europeans all tend to be smarter on average than the rest of the world simply by survival of the fittest.
Let’s face it: if its always warm and all you have to do to eat is pluck a mango off of a branch, you’re less likely to be driven to get a Phd.
Or it may just be related to…racism.
I particularly like your ‘northern European’ qualifier.
Racism and bigotry all nicely contained in a post about…the weather!
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How is saying that survival of the fittest led to a somewhat higher level of intellect racism in any sense? What are they teaching you in college?
I know that the Left is destroying our educational system but I didn’t realize the damage was so pervasive.
[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
Neuromancer wrote:
BB, surely an individual can be an agent for change?While in the narrowest sense of the idea,I agree with what you’re saying (in respect to individual change),do you not think that the perspective you describe is extremely limiting?
Of course he can - but he can’t make anyone else change. You can’t make anyone else change unless you have the force of law behind you. And even then you can’t make them change their minds.
The best thing I can do is lead by example, take care of my kids and teach them properly. I can also donate time and money to help. I can argue for what I think it right, and hopefully inspire change.
But again, I can’t make anyone else change. And therein lies the crux of the responsibility issue.[/quote]
What I find the cop out is when the ‘inspire change’ bit gets left out of people’s equations,and they ride the ‘I’m only responsible for me,hence bollocks to whatever you say’ horse to death.
If you strive to inspire change,then for sure are you are going to change other people.It may not be the type of change that you’re describing,the ram it down your throat type,but it is still a change that one,by one’s actions,one has brought to fruition.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Neuromancer wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
You know, all this stuff about racism might simply be related to climate.
People in temperate (cooler) zones tend to be more ambitious and clever, simply because they had to be to survive the climate.
Look at Koreans: the weather is terrible and you’re surrounded by 3 belligerent (historically) powers. No wonder they’re so smart! Japanese, northern Chinese, northern Europeans all tend to be smarter on average than the rest of the world simply by survival of the fittest.
Let’s face it: if its always warm and all you have to do to eat is pluck a mango off of a branch, you’re less likely to be driven to get a Phd.
Or it may just be related to…racism.
I particularly like your ‘northern European’ qualifier.
Racism and bigotry all nicely contained in a post about…the weather!
How is saying that survival of the fittest led to a somewhat higher level of intellect racism in any sense? What are they teaching you in college?
I know that the Left is destroying our educational system but I didn’t realize the damage was so pervasive.
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You need to stop getting your exercise from jumping to conclusions,labouring under illusions,and carrying around that tremendous chip…
Oh, I think people should try to inspire change - it would be great if more people aspired to be role models for others. It’s a responsibility that some will take on, and some will pass up - and it is a responsibility. It’s also not something you can measure. Have I inspired people? I hope so (Among other tings, I’ve been a teacher - test prep classes, including free classes in low-income areas, I’ve volunteered time, and I wrote a lot for my college newspaper). Do I know? Not really.
Of course, if we could get each person to just agree to improve himself and his family, we’d get pretty far ahead pretty quickly…
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
How is saying that survival of the fittest led to a somewhat higher level of intellect racism in any sense? What are they teaching you in college?
I know that the Left is destroying our educational system but I didn’t realize the damage was so pervasive.
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The argument from climate need not be based on natural selection. See Montesquieu.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
People get paid for how much they produce. Wow, how unfair!!
Maybe when Hillary steals the nomination from Barack and black people see how the Dems have used them as pawns for the last 50 years, they might actually wake up to the fact that they were being tricked. They allowed themselves to become a dependent class, then ‘Boo Hoo! We’re not rich and successful!!’ How fucking pathetic!
When they adopt middle class values (dress like a civilised being and not ‘gangsta’, value education, not name their children ‘Sequoia’ or some other dumb shit like that) maybe they’ll get somewhere.
Racism is stupid but it doesn’t go away by whining and bitching, by listening to scum like Pastor Wright and his buddies Farrakhan and Obama, or with another governmental program.
Racism goes away when confronted with INTELLIGENCE!!![/quote]