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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Genetic inferior..

Oh it always makes me howl with laughter when I hear the genetics argument with regards to race. I think largely because not only is it a baseless appeal to authority but also a total waste of time. I mean seriously why should I care? And what constitutes genetic superiority anyway? I'm a sociologist and a historian by trade and to date not one 'expert' has yet to tell me what this special gene is that makes people so superior.

Oh I've heard the "white men have invented more" argument all the time, but that in itself is a fallacy. By what standard are we talking here? The aggressive colonial nature of the European nations of course. You see invention is driven by the sociological make up the society in question. An expansionist civilization is bound to be more inventive ways to colonize and conquer as opposed to an isolationist civilization. What possible need of an armada of battleships, for example, would their be to the Zulu tribal nation? What they lacked in gunpowder they more than made up for with thousands of men who could run across a hundred miles of land in a single night and still take on technologically advanced white man with enough energy and drive left over. If one were to argue the superiority of genetics, the Zulu won hands down. But it wasn't genetics it was their nature. That the white man had superior technology only speaks, at least to me, how incapable they were to survive in the hostile lands of Africa without it. Also when it comes to invention, I am reminded of my personal hero, Elijah McCoy, who despite being at a social disadvantage in America, invented and patented 57 inventions that changed the face of modern technolgy.
At the end of the day, genetics is a poor argument to justify racism, even if it is an accurate science. It's no reason to hate another "race", which is more myth than real science. And to be quite frank, if our friend in the above video is a prime example of white genetic superiority, then damn, I drew a short straw didn't I?

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