19 Feb 2024 7:13 am
(PART I OF III)
I wrote: "Whether a black person who steals from a white person is given to interpersonal racism or not, most black people who steal things do so because of the socioeconomic conditions dealt to them by institutionalized or structural racism." Cannonpointer: "What if that was horse ****? What if the diaspora killed off 95% of those leaving Africa, and only a few capable of planning for the harsh European winters survived? What if evolution - efficient and never wasteful - didn't require subsaharans those extra 20 IQ points that European survival required? What if it left subsaharans more athletic, more impulsive, and less intelligent than their European counterparts? ..IF EVOLUTION HAD DONE THAT, would you want to know? It's a yes/no question, and it isn't rhetorical. If evolution had done that, would you want to know?" Cannonpointer then "quoted" me in the following manner: "The assertion that so-called black criminality is primarily socioeconomically driven isn't folly. To assert the converse is merely to legitimize" He then wrote: "Yeah, that ducks the question. Maybe you'll speak pertinently to the question in your next post." However, my complete response reads as follows: "The assertion that so-called black criminality is primarily socioeconomically driven isn't folly. To assert the converse is merely to legitimize one's racist notions of racialized people. The fact that black people commit crimes disproportionally to their proportion of the overall population is a function of primarily white-people-driven institutionalized and interpersonal racism. A 2021 article published by Marketplace states, "Researchers sent more than 80,000 fake job applications for entry-level openings to Fortune 500 firms and found that, on average, applications with distinctively Black names were about 10% less likely to get a call back than comparable applications with distinctively white names." https://www.marketplace.org/2021/08/03/ ... t-stages/A CSG Justice Center article reports, among other such things, that "White men with a criminal record had more positive responses [to their job applications] than black men with no criminal record.https://csgjusticecenter.org/2014/09/23 ... mployment/ "
What Cannonpointer accused me of ducking is the following set of questions: "What if that was horse ****? What if the diaspora killed off 95% of those leaving Africa, and only a few capable of planning for the harsh European winters survived? What if evolution - efficient and never wasteful - didn't require subsaharans those extra 20 IQ points that European survival required? What if it left subsaharans more athletic, more impulsive, and less intelligent than their European counterparts? ..IF EVOLUTION HAD DONE THAT, would you want to know?"
His follow-up question: "It's a yes/no question, and it isn't rhetorical. If evolution had done that, would you want to know?"
Either way, a yes or no response would legitimize Cannonpointer's racism-centered question, which I suspect is what Cannonpointer wanted me to do. The ignorance-induced "What if it left subsaharans more athletic, more impulsive, and less intelligent than their European counterparts" is pseudoscientific garbage with no place in intelligent discourse, certainly not in anything approximating a dialectic.
http://www.slp.org/pdf/statements/siu_chart.pdf
(END OF PART I)