reply to post by Xaphan
The thing is, OP, it's not that people are brainwashed (I could say that you are too, 9000 sides to a coin and whatnot), but it's the ethical
implications we'd have to face if indeed your 'facts' are accurate. I'm no psychologist or geneticist (and barely a garden variety anthropologist)
either, but I do know the difference between averages
Do you know what a liberal is? I'm asking you this in sincerity, because a lot of people get it confused with socialist principles. Three major
tenets of textbook liberalism are freedom, meritocracy and, believe it or not, individualism. Equality, from a textbook liberal's standpoint, should
be both facilitated and tempered by these ideals, irrespective of ethnicity, religion, socio-economic class, etc. So let's take your premise, put it
into practice for argument's sake, and make an attempt of understanding the "PC Liberal's" unfounded hatred.
Five years after the results are publicly disclosed, governments across North America and Western Europe fall over themselves in a rush to implement
new policies and programs to stratify their populations by race. These actions will affect both the education and legal sectors, as well as employment
opportunities. Depending on the purported average
IQ of your ethnic group, your access to certain fields of education and employment will be
rather slim. If your ethnic group happens to suffer from certain behavioural abnormalities (yes, I've read articles related to race and intelligence
that claim as such), you'll be targeted by racial profiling initiatives run by law enforcement, and you might not even be allowed access to "normal
social environments" because you'll be a danger to yourself.
Let's say that you happen to have a considerably high IQ in general, that you've never committed a crime, that you have ambition and drive in leaps
and bounds, but you happen to hail from one of the underperforming groups. To be accepted into regular school, you'll need to take standardized
intelligence and personality tests at the ages of five, eleven and fourteen. Sure, that's not a problem, right? But will the state be bothered to pay
for the administrators when people of your situation are so rare? Why do the "normal" kids with the IQ of 95 get to bypass it when your parents have
IQs at the 130 mark?
Wanna get a nice, cushy white-collar job? Be prepared to take those tests again since everyone does anyway, but expect them to be even more rigorous
due to your "unique" situation. Be prepared to get a no to your face because your interviewer's bigoted views are now somewhat justified by the
state. No one's going to bother filing a discrimination lawsuit for you, buddy. You can probably forget that skilled trade job while you're at it
too, so it's gonna be cleaning the "normal" people's toilets for you, unfortunately.
Let's say you manage to overcome all of these obstacles, though. You'll have people come up to you all the time, singing your praises because
you're not like the "other ones". Be on guard, however, because you're held to a higher standard than even the "normal" people you're mixing
with. Slip up once, and you'll be deficient like the "rest of them" all over again.
This is what liberals (real liberals anyway) would have a problem with. The tenets of true meritocracy, freedom and individualism wouldn't just be
undermined, but outright denied. It's quite rich to hear conservatives talk about limited government as a conservative ideal. In the UK, the "sus
laws" (suspected person laws) were used and abused by the police during the Thatcher era to stop, search and potentially arrest racial minorities. It
wasn't an overtly discriminatory law, of course. But hey, institutional racism doesn't really exist, so we might as well implement it, right?