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« Reply #25 on: April 14, 2005, 02:15:44 PM »

Deion Sanders superior to you?  just because he runs faster and has good hand-eye coordination?  well, you could argue that his "type" make for better football and basketball players, while your type may make for better in other fields.  But saying that whites generally make better swimmers, chinese make better gymnasts, and blacks make better basketballers, is not the same as saying one group is "superior"  Just means people are different.  I don't think we disagree on this.  I think you're not the knee-jerk PC type and neither am I, and we don't mind talking about race.  But you can't say any race is abjectly "superior" can you?  Just that they are differently suited.

If someones pyhsical advantage gains them something more then someone w/out it, ie more money, more women, etc. In a way you could say they are superior to someone w/out that advantage.

Basically then it depends on the geographic location as to who is superior, in Siberia a white man would be whereas in Africa a black man would be. Balances out in the end really.

I use Darwinian logic in my thinking basically. A white man would be at a big disadvantage on the savannah of kenya whereas a black man would be at a physical advantage and thus in some sense of the word, he'd be "superior".
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« Reply #26 on: April 14, 2005, 02:19:23 PM »

hmmm.  but what if a bigger cock attracts the women, but a bigger brain which allows you to build a better house attracts the women as well.  Then which guy is superior, if each has one endowment that gets the women?  See, the Europeans are not superior because they were able to enslave, slaughter, and generally subdue most of the world for five hundred years.  But the climate made them adaptive to building the ships and wooden structures that would later be used to subjugate the Americas and Africa and Asia.  Nor are native americans superior to the europeans because they found a lifestyle in which they could live in harmony with the land instead of destroying the land and water.  Similarly, the chinese aren't superior to the Russians, even though Russian communism has left that country starving and ill-suited to do anything other than vetch and elect former KGB thugs, while chinese communism has left that country in a trajectory toward a modified form of capitalism, but without the nuissance of liberty.  Are Chinese superior to Russians.  Not really.  Russians beat 'em to outer space, but the chinese eat better.  Both get women.   Don't you think it's possible to be different but equal?  I posted the exact same question on the Brown v Board thread.  But I post it here with conviction.  I think it is possible.  I don't think my wife is superior to me, nor I to her.  Do I think I'm superior to the woman who empties my garbage every day?  I don't.  She may be better suited to other tasks than I (probably due more to educational levels and interests rather than racial differences), but she is simply different.  Not better.  Not worse.
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« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2005, 02:34:47 PM »

None.

#1 would be fine if it was different was used in place of superior or many was dropped, but in this current state it is just racism.

#2 can be interpreted variously. People of different interests? People of different social classes? People of different ethnicities? The first is fine, but I don't think that is what they are going for here. I disagree.

#3 I disagree with. How can one not describe cannibalistic cultures as "savage"?

Pretty much how I feel.
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