I've studied #whitesupremacism briefly. The key foundation of white supremacist arguments is that Africa is not as developed as other nations, indicating alleged IQ or mental deficiencies. I'm going to show how this approach can easily be refuted.
1st counterargument: Europeans & Christians themselves were not generally advanced in math/science until their exposure to Islamic & Asian scholars. In fact, it's likely European navigators, including V. da Gama, used/stole Chinese maps from Zheng He before succeeding.
2nd counter: it's clear societies advanced at different rates based on their ability to engage other continents. Since all knowledge is incremental, IQ & other "racial" tests (i.e., scientific progress) may simply measure who first mastered shipbuilding/navigation, then weapons.
3rd counter: #civilizations themselves rise & fall not necessarily b/c of any IQ differences but luck & other random factors. The Romans defeated the Greeks once upon a time, but no one today believes Greece in 2020 is or should be a model of any Western civilization.
4th counter: in fact, if anyone believes civilization or scientific progress is indicative of IQ then note that Romans only managed peace for ~200 yrs. Chinese & Persians would most likely be ahead on any overall civilizational chart. (Even today, most advanced city is Tokyo.)
5th counter: it is true human beings r prone to noticing patterns & visual differences, which should alone be enough to dispel #racist ideology, i.e., that humanity's general dependence on the visual only scratches the surface of any problem. Otherwise, no atoms, no science, etc.
If anything, the greater willingness of the white/Anglo populations to believe in their own racial superiority may be indicative of racial inferiority, i.e., an inability to realize the psychological phenomenon of projection. After all, whites r more prone to alcoholism... [cont]
blue eyes r far more susceptible to cataracts than non-light eyes; and fairer skin tends to age faster than darker skin. Ultimately, most of humanity in 2020 is still generally inbred, & recessive traits may be one sign of inbreeding or at least segregation rather than progress.
I don't know what more to say, other than to recommend one of my favorite books, The Mismeasure of Man (1981), by Stephen Jay Gould.
#phrenology #science
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