In the news: Eric S. Raymond shifts to Ubuntu

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Feb 23 01:17:12 GMT 2007


Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:

>> Ubuntu. "An African word meaning Humanity to others"
>>
>> .... even for the person who just said African-Americans are responsible
>> for 50% of the crimes in the US because they have mostly low IQ ....
>>
> 
> If he's really smart, he would not say something like that.
> 
> No matter what, it is never ethical to say something like that because the
> fact that people are helplessly born with that race.

"ethical"?  It would be unethical to say something that one knows to be
untrue.  The statement is misleading, and unkind, perhaps racist, but
probably not provably untrue.

Most convicted criminals have low IQ - whether it's true of criminals in
general is also unprovable,  as the smart ones would obviously not get
caught as often.  Poor people tend to have low _measurable_ IQs for any
number of reasons - they really are damaged by malnutrition, they were
hungry at the time they were tested, or they're just too angry with the
system to want to do well on the tests.  A higher percentage of poor
Americans are black rather than white.  So the numbers will bear him out.
-- 
derek




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