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Originally Posted by emathias
Where people get in trouble when talking about race and crime is when they jump from the specifics of an individual case into population-level generalities way too quickly, or if they start assigning population-level trends to race in a causal fashion, even if there seems to be strong causal links.
A racist is someone who believes that there are significant differences between "races" in humans that cause population-level differences in behavior that are inherent to the genetics of that population. Which means that no matter how strongly statistics seem to point out a relationship between behavior and race, stopping at that point and assigning that relationship as causal is inherently racist, by definition. Avoiding racist thoughts is pushing beyond that to uncover as much as possible about other linkages either because you believe that assigning the differences to physical race is lazy, or because you believe that finding other components in the line of causality helps society function better by allowing self-determinism to continue as the dominant ethos.
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I would argue there ARE
differences between "races" in humans that cause population-level differences in behavior that are inherent to the genetics of that population. I don't however, believe that any one race is superior to another - to me that is what a racist is, not rejecting the notion that every race is 100% identical.
And regardless, I believe the many people who love to toss around the word racist in 2018 are actually implying one believes a CULTURE is superior to another CULTURE, not a race.
For example - Do I look down on the ten's of thousands of black youth in Englewood and other south and west side communities who resort to gang violence? Absolutely, but it's because of their behavior, not their race, the fact they are black irrelevant. There are ten's of thousands of hardworking honest people in those neighborhoods who I have no ill will towards and wish them nothing but success, I don't feel that way because they are black or white or whatever their race, it's because they are (presumably) good people. If HUD secretary Ben Carson decided to purchase a home next door to mine, I wouldn't bat an eyelash, but if some gang banger (who is presumably black) and his family moved next door, I would have an issue.
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