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| 2016-01-26 |
| [HotAir] The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood. The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. That assumption carries great weight in far more important things than Academy Awards and in places more important than Hollywood, including the Supreme Court of the United States. In an earlier era, the groupthink assumption was that groups that did not succeed as often, or as well, were genetically inferior. But is our current groupthink assumption based on any more hard evidence? Having spent decades researching racial and ethnic groups around the world, I have never yet found a country in which all groups -- or even most groups -- are even roughly equally represented in most endeavors. Nor have I been the only one with that experience. The great French historian Fernand Braudel said, "In no society have all regions and all parts of the population developed equally." A study of military forces around the world failed to find a single one in which in which the ethnic makeup of the military was the same as that of the society. My own favorite example of unrepresentativeness, however, is right at home. Having watched National Football League games for more than 50 years, I have seen hundreds of black players score touchdowns, but I have never seen one black player kick the extra point. What are we to conclude from this? Do those who believe in genetics think that blacks are just genetically incapable of kicking a football? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 As a generation of neurotics becomes firmly ensconced as the "Voices of Truth" (TM), we can expect more of this distracting B.S. as Rome burns. “I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it.” - Clint Eastwood |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-01-26 16:17 |
| #2 The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. Diversity, the anti-Democarcy |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-01-26 10:15 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-26 08:38 |