Okay someone else’s blog has inspired to me to write areal article on race not one based on hippy dippy kumbaya wishful thinking. So I will ask a number of questions.
- Does race actually exist?
- Does it matter if did?
- Does race affect average IQ within a race?
- Does diet affect IQ more than genetics?
- Do parasites and disease affect IQ more than genetics?
- Does race affect health?
- Is poor health/early death a result of racism, diet or genetic differences?
- Are humans really two maybe three species considering the new genetic evidence showing hybridization between different homins leaving distinct genetic differences?
- Does that make race therefore irrelevant and is it speciesism?
- Does race affect how a person sees the world?
- Epigenetics versus genetics which explains any differences better.
- Is criminality a result of your race or is it environment?
What we know so far or think we do is that different races have different average IQ’s, different races are more prone to different diseases than others, criminality is higher among some races than others, some races can dance some can’t. Some races can drink milk others cannot into adulthood, some can metabolize alcohol others cannot. The different races view the world different quite literally.
Anyhow getting back to my initial point why is ignoring race killing people? Well it’s quite simple because of the Kumbaya brigade medical studies have been strongly discouraged to ignore or be silent about any data indicating differences and we are not talking IQ we are talking things like reaction to different drugs that cure condition X, while race one reacts favorably to the drug, race two can be adversely impacted or the drug has no effect. However the Kumbaya brigade force the study to declare that the drug is a one size fits all and any mention of adverse effects on race two are quietly buried.
Another reason the Kumbaya brigade cause deaths or rather cause people to ignore genocide is that only white people can be racist therefore for hypothetical example brown people killing black people by the tens of thousands is probably nothing more than a “shop lifting incident” and therefore we should not interfere and save them and who are we to judge them after all.
Anyhow the Kumbaya brigade do make me laugh because they are the first to segregate themselves into communities of like race marry within their race and attend schools with people just like them however they do tend to feel morally superior by telling others who do the exact opposite that they are racist.
I’ve tried to hash out answers to the above questions over many years and still have no clear answers other than yes genetics does explain some differences, epigenetics others and environment maybe more or less depending on where you live. I must also be racist because I’m in a mixed race married by some weird logic of the Kumbaya brigade and that they know all the answers better than myself “because racism”. So does it matter if there are distinct differences or even if there are should we not rise above that as human beings and no matter what race/species we are, we are still human beings and should learn to rise above that after all we are the only mammals that has the capability to do that but we should still recognize that sometimes race is important for your health.
There’s no evidence yet that ebola (obola?) affects any one race more than any other. Sickle-cell anaemia it ain’t.
It is more likely to affect and kill people with already compromised immune systems like the gay community or cancer patients though, as their ability to fight this is already weakened.
My main point is certain medications can be beneficial to one race yet have detrimental affects to others due to the one size fits all approach (we are all the same), if memory serves me right certain heart medications have killed large numbers of African Americans because of this. Heck even differences between the sexes can affect how medicine is processed by the body. Not recognizing that very very small genetic differences can literally kill people. Personally I would rather people recognize this fact rather than feel smugly morally superior. Look at the Rwanda genocide no one interfered from the West because to do so would be perceived as racist, that attitude cost the lives of 800,000 people.
Yeah well I did make the point about medical science and race in my blog too. And the reason no one gave a rat’s arse about the lives of a million Rwandans is that as far as I’m aware, no-one’s discovered any oil there yet.
I for one was horrified by the lack of international involvement except by the French who backed the Hutu’s (quelle suprise). I do find it interesting that the left who scream racism the loudest are doing their utmost to make sure Africans can not exploit their vast coal and oil reserves thus ensuring the deaths of millions, if you wish to lower the rate of demographic increase over time you allow them to become more prosperous and by doing so they have fewer children.
C’mon Crown , there has to be something exciting happening in the Good Ol’ U.S of A in the second decade of the Third Millenium.
Ya feeling comfortable?
No we are doomed a certain Kenyan gentleman is trying to kill us all with plagues from Africa and South America, so race relations are at an all time high and things are all wonderful. Why do you ask?
Oh I was just reading the entrails, and noting that there were indications of increasing turmoil, especially in the markets.
I really don’t know what people are so flighty about. I mean the Fed knows what it’s doing right?
Yes they know exactly what they are doing as they all have IQ’s in the 200’s and are without sin. I saw one walk on water once.
The interesting thing is whether the massive drop in oil price is being done to crush either the Russians or the Shale Gas industry in the USA or maybe both, however the Saudi’s are not happy campers either.
It is likely aimed at Russia , and the Saudis are happy to oblige their good friends while at the same time they know that every other oil producer will keep pumping regardless of price because they desperately need the revenue.
As always the Saudis will make a virtue of doing what they were going to do anyway . . and demand some payback at some future date.
I reckon that there is about zero chance that the Fed will not do anything and everything to keep the bubble in the air.
But ya gotta watch those black swans 🙂
Well we can’t have an actual market with risk or anything can we, that would fly in the face of capitalism. What would happen if the ultra rich could actually lose money it would be unthinkable the horror of it they might have to downsize to a smaller mega yacht or sell a private island.
Heh Janet Yellen boots the bastard into next year :-
“A comment from a hawkish Federal Reserve official on Thursday that central-bank bond buying should continue beyond its scheduled end lifted stock markets and surprised many observers.
The Federal Reserve should consider extending its bond-buying program beyond October due to the market selloff to see how the U.S. economic outlook evolves, said James Bullard, the president of the St. Louis Fed, on Thursday. …
If the economy is still as robust as I am describing it, then I think we could just end the program in December. But if the market is right, and this is portending something more serious for the U.S. economy, than the committee would have an option of ramping up QE at that point,” he said.
Have a merry christmas folks ; let’s hope we all make it to Oimelg (February 2)
🙂
Or kicking the can down the road until after the mid term elections, just like the oil price has tumbled surprise before the election as well.