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YF, I REFUSE TO EXPLAIN A THIRD TIME! | 2007-01-11

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I read this post twice, so I will attempt to comment on it — at the risk of sounding like an anti.

We are dealing with the unknown, but I think if the other races had a higher sociopathic element it would be noticeable in a generation. It would also be noticeable in their nations of origin. You might be able to make a case for blacks, as they riot from time to time. Maybe Mexicans too, considering what I heard about them in the past year. What about people from the large, diverse continent of Asia? Any reason to believe their sociopathic rate would be higher than 2%?

You seem to be considering them more than non-White — actually non-human — like they are zombies living among us. I'm not sure you could get many white people to believe that non-whites are Ted Bundies that are gonna get them one day — except the ones who look forward for that Race War. We could make a lot of What-if scenarios — what if they have some superpowers or some other nonsense? Any reason why your scenario should be taken very seriously?

In your 12/25/2006 post you say, " the astounding number of psychopaths in our society and the Politically Correct view of skin color. I pointed out that two percent of the people who look just like us are psychopaths, and we don't know it until too late."

Well, you might be suggesting that separate races living among each other will awaken the psychopath within the introduced race. Possible, or it could be ethnic conflict — since neighbors tend to fight. Or could be more race war fantasy.

Continuing, you say, "Now here is the point. If you cannot tell that a person who has his entire evolutionary history in common with you [is a sociopath], how do you then turn right around and insist, "No matter what the color of the skin, all humans think and feel alike."

This has to be a strawman. This is not even said by politically correct multiracialists. Even they admit differences among the races, although they describe the qualities of the non-white races in complementary ways (ie: in the workplace, blacks are empathic, asians are methodological, etc).

To be fair, here is what one politically correct multiracialist says: "Most of this racial-differences mumbo-jumbo is wormed over human genetics stuff that was analyzed, dissected, and ultimately deemed irrelevant to running a compassionate democracy about two decades ago. Sure, books like the Bell Curve have brought the subject all over again. But, for most Americans, it's a big yawn."

Anyone find Bob's argument compelling? I have trouble understanding it.

-Al Parker

Comment by YearningForFreedom

ME:

This has nothing to do with relative racial sociopathy. You are so tied up racial quibbles that you are incapable of understanding my larger point.

If some commenters could get over their laryngitis, they may be able to explain it to you.