On 01/15/2017 01:09 PM, Big 'Uns wrote:
On Sat Jan 14 2017 19:09:16 -1900 "Cecilia Tanaka" <cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com> wrote:
Racist feelings are not love. They are pure hate and intolerance.
Racism is the classification of people by race.
It's more than that. It's not even clear that there are distinct races. While there are still a few isolated populations, most are intermixed. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that there are races. Testing reveals all sorts of differences among populations, and some of those persist after aggregation by race. However, it's nontrivial to distinguish mental differences from cultural differences. And even if you manage that, differences are generally minor, small shifts in mean values, and small differences in distribution widths and/or asymmetry. But arguably, none of that is racist. What's racist is judging someone, based on race. It's unreliable. First, because reliably determining someone's race is nontrivial. And second, because differences between races are small, and distributions are broad.
You, Cecilia, are a racist.
Well, she's judging people based on their stated opinions. Not on their race. Many of the racist assholes under discussion are white. But we could just as easily be discussing other sorts of racist assholes.
Just like good ol' James.
Well, he's plainly a racist. Or posing as one, to upset some of us.