Only one tiny point, no others: so you agree that the stereotypes in the film are based on the reality that the average white person is a racist imbecile? (of course, this was a certain time and place. As the stereotype goes today, most white people, while still blockheads, have learned to hide signs of their racism very well)

I understand where stereotyping comes from, Christ, I don’t believe it has any positive use. Do you know why blind musicians were over-represented in jazz and blues? Put down your phrenology calipers and use your addled brain.

Question the moonlanding, Einstein, no one is dictating, ridicule is not dictating. Of course other libertarians should read you the riot act and try in every way to distance themselves from your unfortunate proclivities. Don’t you chuckleheads know what completely torpedoed Ron Paul?

http://www.psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/Intelligence%20and%20How%20to%20Get%20It%20%28Working%20Paper%29.pdf

http://www.isteve.com/amazon-book-reviews-hbd.htm

i’ve seen the movie, a classic. i’m not in the least embarrassed by anything that science has to say about race in intelligence tests. other ethnic groups out-score mine, and i bear them no ill will (until they start dictating to me what history i may question, that is).

the jazz “test” as you’ve presented it proves nothing but the dangers of selection bias. my contention is not that white players of equal talent don’t exist, or that their style gives them away as white, but that there are more talented blacks than whites. stereotypes are based on averages.

To dip into this sad and obsessive world a bit: whites were under-represented in jazz (though individual whites are fully capable of performing it, racialist black musicians have failed to identify the skin color of other jazz musicians in blindfold tests) for the same reason that blind people were over-represtented in jazz and blues.

Henry Cooper’s thin skin pains me not an iota.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110121/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_holocaust_mass_graves

One further wonders if Dick Cheney can be of help here.

http://www.amren.com/ar/1993/11/index.html#article1

Interesting quote:

” Likewise, Dr. Baker explains that some of the inhabitants of northern India have relatively dark skin but are racially very close to Europids. “

stereotyping is a universal human behaviour, as per anti-gnostic’s comment. colin phillips’ comment on the “cockroaches” should calm white guilt.

http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=117

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kI_GkosWio

I wonder if all the pale-colored stereotypes in it pain our quaint villagers here.

…some good austrian writings/reviews on race and discrimination.

Diversity, which we once celebrated, has become a dirty word among so many of us because of the very negative and destructive way it’s been used. For example, I would find it very interesting to talk with a with a Haitian about his belief in voodoo. But I would not want laws which gave voodoo culture preference over my own. “Racism” which once had a valid meaning has been so much thrown at whites over anything they oppose which blacks want, that it has become an insult exactly like the derogatory terms for blacks; “White racism” excuses anything from affirmative action to rape and murder.

I think if you were to read with an open minds books such as Race, Evolution, and Behavior (by Rushton) and Why Race Matters (by Levin), you would understand that racial differences go far beyond trivialities like skin color.