Racist Bollocks!
ref: http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire#axzz1rN8P5SOO
This is the biggest pile of poo I have ever had the misfortune to read. It takes the manipulative route of all dictators by presenting twisted statistical half-truths as fact.
Sadly, this garbage could only ever be accepted as fact by people with racist inclinations who have had limited experience of black people.
I came to realise a short while ago that most prejudice is based on PERCEIVED knowledge (as opposed to actual real EXPERIENCED knowledge...)
For this reason, most people take as their starting point of 'knowledge' what they hear their family, colleagues, friends say about certain groups of people. They build up prejudices based on the stories they see presented in films, TV shows, plays, books, newspapers, media etc (all of which are ultimately fictional).
The reason for this is the way the human brain takes in and assimilates information; our subconscious perceives what we see in a film for example as 'something we have experienced' even though its a fabricated and fictional account of 'reality' - NOT reality...
This skews our world-view - ESPECIALLY if our REAL world-view (ie that which we have ACTUALLY experienced) is severely limited in scope.
It is very easy for opportunistic people to use this understanding to manipulate those who are less experienced, less educated and full of fear. (Politicians and Church Leaders being prime examples of this.)
That is why its fundamentally important that everything we see or experience (our news coverage, our books, plays, films and our media) should have even and balanced coverage of the people and stories told within them.
It is no longer acceptable to label certain groups or individuals as less or more than...It is no longer acceptable to believe that certain groups are inferior or superior to others...It is no longer acceptable to believe that we can tell the moral or intellectual worth of an individual merely by their skin colour or where they live.
These things are unacceptable simply because they make no sense - no sense outside of a limited and fearful view of the world.
Articles like this one only stoke the fires of prejudice and ignorance by pouring on the fuel of mis-information...
...SHAME ON YOU...
This is the biggest pile of poo I have ever had the misfortune to read. It takes the manipulative route of all dictators by presenting twisted statistical half-truths as fact.
Sadly, this garbage could only ever be accepted as fact by people with racist inclinations who have had limited experience of black people.
I came to realise a short while ago that most prejudice is based on PERCEIVED knowledge (as opposed to actual real EXPERIENCED knowledge...)
For this reason, most people take as their starting point of 'knowledge' what they hear their family, colleagues, friends say about certain groups of people. They build up prejudices based on the stories they see presented in films, TV shows, plays, books, newspapers, media etc (all of which are ultimately fictional).
The reason for this is the way the human brain takes in and assimilates information; our subconscious perceives what we see in a film for example as 'something we have experienced' even though its a fabricated and fictional account of 'reality' - NOT reality...
This skews our world-view - ESPECIALLY if our REAL world-view (ie that which we have ACTUALLY experienced) is severely limited in scope.
It is very easy for opportunistic people to use this understanding to manipulate those who are less experienced, less educated and full of fear. (Politicians and Church Leaders being prime examples of this.)
That is why its fundamentally important that everything we see or experience (our news coverage, our books, plays, films and our media) should have even and balanced coverage of the people and stories told within them.
It is no longer acceptable to label certain groups or individuals as less or more than...It is no longer acceptable to believe that certain groups are inferior or superior to others...It is no longer acceptable to believe that we can tell the moral or intellectual worth of an individual merely by their skin colour or where they live.
These things are unacceptable simply because they make no sense - no sense outside of a limited and fearful view of the world.
Articles like this one only stoke the fires of prejudice and ignorance by pouring on the fuel of mis-information...
...SHAME ON YOU...
posted by Staircase2 at 5:38 pm
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