Hard Truth said:
Racists misuse statistics to view all individuals within a group as the same.
No they do not.
"All" (aka 100%) is High School Strawman debate Dishonestly trying to get out of a True generalization that may be just higher ON AVERAGE, In GENERAL, May even be 90% or even 99%.
All just gives the person wishing to Mislead an 'out'.
Hard Truth said:
That is not what the statistics indicate. Statistics on race some may show tendencies of a group, but they do not tell you anything about the individuals within that group.
Then before I deal with the rest of your paragraph, you are admitting True generalizations CAN Be made about Racial groups.
That is 'Racist' if not mean-spirited.
Yes of course (GIANT DUH), not "ALL" East Africans are better distance runners than "all" ie, Eskimos, but the Racism of the statement is true nonetheless.
Hard Truth said:
For example, East Africans as a group may tend to be good runners, but that does not mean every East African is a good runner. Humans are too varied and individual for any tendency to be universal, even within a relatively homogenous group. That can be measured and easilly observed. For accuracy, people need to assessed as individuals, not as members of a racial or ethnic group.
Yes, I just explained that.
Nonetheless East Africans are overwhelmingly better distance runners is true, but of course not "ALL" are.
Jesus, how pathetic this is!
If someone claims one race has a higher IQ than another, they mean ON AVERAGE, they OF COURSE don't mean ALL BILLION of one race are smarter than ALL BILLION of another.
They mean the Average of one or more is significantly higher.
Illustration:
Those show Race hierarchy in IQ and
they OVERLAP. They do NOT mean ALL of one race is smarter than ALL of another, but they DO mean generalizations about average IQ of the group CAN be made.
Hard Truth said:
It is would be a foolish error for someone seeking a team of good runners to only hire East Africans without assessing each individual's abilities. Some East Africans are not good runners and many people with other backgrounds are as good or better runners. The racist's error is the notion that racial tendencies are more significant than individual characteristics.
Of course, you would want to time every runner first, but the Racial statement East Africans are better distance runners remains TRUE, if not [duh] "ALL".
As I always say, you Never know who you're shaking hands with regardless of appearance.
He Could be an Ethiopean Astrophysicist, or an Japanese champion Marathoner. It's just NOT nearly as likely as the opposite for Genetic/RACE reasons.
Juvenilely using the superlative/strawman (never claimed) "all" makes a mockery of the debate of truisms.
One in which you admitted Racial tendency/Racism nonetheless.