The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place

Re:The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty... by millermp12 on Thursday October 16, 2014 @05:54PM (#8468032)

Comparatively, how is Africa _not_ dirty and diseased? The only place on Earth where long vanquished diseases are still fairly common is Africa.

By what metric (child mortality, water quality, GI diseases, environmental degradation), could you possibly undermine this statement? Africa appears dirty and diseased because it is.

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Re:The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty... by sliverstorm on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:51PM (#8468346)

The difference is that's a causality claim.

"Africa harbors exotic diseases" - fact

"IQ tests have conclusively shown there are differences between races" - fact

"The observed difference in IQ between races are because race X is genetically inferior" - causal speculation

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Re:The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty... by seanflyon on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:50PM (#8468342)

> how are black people not intellectually inferior?

If lower IQ test scores were the definition of intellectual inferiority then that would be the case.

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