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TheMachine1
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24 Jan 2007, 12:17 pm

i'm not surprised.



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24 Jan 2007, 12:17 pm

I bet it has something to do with smart racists being better able to hide their racism.



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24 Jan 2007, 12:34 pm

I have always linked evil intentions with stupidity (and stupidity with bullism).

Liars' brain has also less gray matter:
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/11655.html



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24 Jan 2007, 12:36 pm

ahayes wrote:
I bet it has something to do with smart racists being better able to hide their racism.


Unless you happen to be Janet Street-Porter.



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24 Jan 2007, 12:41 pm

Well I'll have all to say to all of you who agree with this ridiculous theory is that one of the greatest geniuses of the last century was also a racist. His name is William Shockley, Nobel prize winner, inventor of the transistor and also highly suspected of being an Aspie. He was utterly convinced of the intellectual inferiority of black people and advocated eugenics.

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/sh ... kley3.html



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24 Jan 2007, 12:49 pm

thadius wrote:
Well I'll have all to say to all of you who agree with this ridiculous theory is that one of the greatest geniuses of the last century was also a racist. His name is William Shockley, Nobel prize winner, inventor of the transistor and also highly suspected of being an Aspie. He was utterly convinced of the intellectual inferiority of black people and advocated eugenics.

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/sh ... kley3.html


Bell shaped curve ,sure thier will be some racist geniuses. That does not disprove the author's theory. Racism is ridiculous and it
does not take a scientific study to tell me racist people on average
are dumber than non-racists.



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24 Jan 2007, 12:52 pm

That doesn't suprize me.



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24 Jan 2007, 1:00 pm

You people should to the test done by Harvard to see if you're a racist or not. I thought everyone was racist in some sort of way or another.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/



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24 Jan 2007, 1:05 pm

amerikasend wrote:
You people should to the test done by Harvard to see if you're a racist or not. I thought everyone was racist in some sort of way or another.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/


I'm sure we all are to some degree. But thats certainily figures in the data. The more racist the dumber one gets.



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24 Jan 2007, 1:14 pm

Disclaimer (I guess this is mandatory :? ): I am very much opposed to racism and view it in a negative fashion.

I do not think that racism is in any way inherently linked to a lack of intelligence. Now, it is possible that today the average racist is less intelligence then the average person (the link rightly explains that, for example Hitler's Aryan theories were complete nonsense). But there was once a time when racist attitudes were considered to be at the forefront of progressive thoughts. One should be cautious about drawing these conclusions too far.



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24 Jan 2007, 2:48 pm

As long as people generalize, there will always be racism.



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24 Jan 2007, 2:55 pm

I do not believe that all Racists are stupid, but delusional and hateful. People with lower IQs are just more susceptible to being racist due to their lack of brain power, understanding, vulnerability not to question things and take the hateful route, and often weaker minds. Intelligent people can be racists too. Take Hitler, for instance, and many KKK members. Racism is totally wrong.

I agree with Headphase.


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24 Jan 2007, 2:56 pm

My brother's a racist but he's pretty clever.



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24 Jan 2007, 3:29 pm

I think a good example of a intelligent racist is David Duke. Wolf Blitzer interviewed him a couple months ago and totally underestimated him, Duke had total control of the interview.



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24 Jan 2007, 4:53 pm

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