Re:James Watson and the Insidiousness of Scientific Racism
by x3tm on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @12:11PM
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>Ok. I brought it up because "I don't see race" is a popular rebuttal to any attempt to discuss racism
Yes, I got the good intention behind your message. No worries.
> I think there's a lot of valuable ground to discover if we analyze racism itself through the lens of science, to figure out why so many people will make irrational excuses to justify a morally repugnant belief system.
Of course. But black scientists are not better suited to do that. Not more than Asians or Arabs for instance. That's the core of my comment. Science is just a method.
Yes, I got the good intention behind your message. No worries.
> I think there's a lot of valuable ground to discover if we analyze racism itself through the lens of science, to figure out why so many people will make irrational excuses to justify a morally repugnant belief system.
Of course. But black scientists are not better suited to do that. Not more than Asians or Arabs for instance. That's the core of my comment. Science is just a method.