God's Lonely Programmer

Re:God's Lonely Programmer by dasil003 on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @04:52PM (#8659941)

> The issue is that in saying that, you tend to be saying that black people intrinsically have lower intelligence than white people unless you're careful to be explicit about what you mean.

That's an issue, I don't think it's the issue, not be a long shot. Try being very careful and explicit about what you mean, it's not gonna help one whit, you're already on the third rail as soon as the words black, white and intelligence come out of your mouth.

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Re:God's Lonely Programmer by eivarv on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @05:27PM (#8660132)

I don't really find people's apprehension of this subject strange.

Racist stereotypes have traditionally in large part been about difference in intelligence between "races", how some were more evolved than the animalistic others, etc. (i.e. dehumanization of "others")

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Re:God's Lonely Programmer by btilly on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @07:50PM (#8660688)

Exactly. We can't even start to try to think about the topic out loud in public.

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