{"id":57847,"date":"2014-09-15T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T02:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57847"},"modified":"2014-09-15T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T02:53:07","slug":"is-there-a-superior-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57847","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Superior Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Levin\">Philosopher Michael Levin<\/a> <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZAon55ggtcw\">says<\/a> in 1998 to the question of racial pathology, i.e. that black behavior in the ghetto is pathological: &#8220;Very often people will wish to make a negative value judgment about a certain behavior but they think it is bad to do that, that it is judgmental, so they call it sick or pathological. A lot of people are disturbed by black drug use and black crime, but they don&#8217;t want to judge anyone, so they&#8217;ll say it is a pathology of the ghetto. I don&#8217;t think it is a pathology. It is acting on impulses that were adaptive in the evolutionary past. The same genes come over here and act impulsively but it is not a disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Belief in the reality and significance of intelligence is inversely correlated with education, which is correlated with IQ. 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