Is it wrong to be racist?

[MrRubix]

Originally Posted by Reach

Well, it is implicit, but the aptitude gap brings up an issue that hasn't been discussed, unless i haven't read enough of the thread. It probably shouldn't be discussed by the majority of people here though, since it's a sensitive issue.

But, there are well documented hereditary links to aptitudes such as IQ.

Which begs to question whether there are genetic differences between racial groups that could be exacerbating current trends.

If this is the case it would be impossible to ever fix the achievement gap.

(To prevent the potential for any slandering, I am not espousing the belief that racial differences are entirely causally the result of genetic differences. To be clear, there is actually no evidence that this would be the case.)

How were these gaps evaluated? I can see the explanation as being easy to see if, say, we are looking at children raised in certain families. If we gauge the IQ of a black kid raised in a black family (opportunities, resources, and parenting inclusive), on average we should expect a different result than if we gauged an Asian kid's IQ when that child was raised in an Asian family (opportunities, resources, and parenting inclusive). But I would expect certain results if we raised, say, a black kid in an Asian household and vice-versa (assuming comparable genetic health beforehand).

Otherwise, the only genetic differences I can think of would be the result of natural selection, but I question whether or not enough time has passed for that kind of progression to be substantial (natural selection being rich/power surviving over the poor/unintelligent dying out from inability to leverage resources as readily), but this would still result from a sort of "artificial selection" through humans in a sort of sick, morbid way (considering that during slavery, people were intentionally kept "dumb," and intelligence was often punished, even by death).