> The idea of modern homosapiens evolving in multiple locations is not so
> farfetched. The arguement is that proto-humans spread out across the
> Old World, and local variations developed. However, instead of these
> local groups diverging to form seperate species, most of the trait diffused
> throughout the entire species. This is a perfectly legitimate occurance
> in evolutionary genetics. Those traits which did not diffuse so widely
> form the basis for racial grouping. Of course, such groupings might be
> completely meaningless.....
And then again, maybe not. One of the arguments for racial quotas is that
despite everything, some minority racial groups just cannot reach certain
achievement levels. Therefore, the only way to attain racial balance
is to lower the admission standards for members of those groups. Such are
the logical conclusions if one accepts the theories of Nobel prize-winning
Shockley, who taught at UCLA when I was there and which at the time seemed
reprehensible. Now, of course, people are willing to play victim if it
serves a temporary, material purpose, and seem quite willing to be
"disadvantaged" if it wins a position, whether or not it is true.
In the long term, such acceptance of racial inferiority can branch several
ways, all in the same general deleterious direction. In order to work
towards a more egalitarian society, we can implement methods to produce
more homogenous offspring - smarter than the disadvantaged, stupider than
the advantaged; or, in fear for the progress of mankind, reduction of the
disadvantaged through birth control, abortion, euthanasia and perhaps active
"final solutions." Or, I suppose, more "humanely" channel members of the
less progressive races into the modern equivalence of slavery - drones
submissive to the direction of the genetically superior - something that,
as a matter of fact, already happens and was proposed and justified by
scientists and educators thoroughly believing in evolution and acting
out on the basis of their mindset.
Given recent history, I think there is no assurance of overt genocide not
occurring once again. All that is necessary is for these retreaded
ideas to gain widespread currency first in the universities and scientific
community, then among the general population. The basic ideas are not new,
though couched in updated technical language, and we have several centuries
of observation of the genocidal consequences of their precursors.
There is absolutely nothing to stop such things occurring sooner or later in
the absence of spiritual values, which this type of bogus and sociological
science in its very essence utterly annihilates, regardless of any personal
intentions of its practitioners.
I urge all students in these fields to seriously question and understand
these ideas, including the assumptions that underlie them, and not to simply
accept them because they are put forward by grade or tenure-granting
authority, or satisfy certain social needs pragmatically.
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