Blog Against Racism

Note: Here is the nexus for "Blog Against Racism Day".

Previously I said that I would do a post for the blog against racism day.

So here is my post on what I consider racist:

On View from the Right (VFR), Mr. Auster posted an email by one Jason Lande:

My impression from Steve Sailer’s various writings on “citizenism” is that his race realism has not divorced him from liberalism, in that he still desires that Americans should take care of the minority underclass. Essentially, his “citizenism” concept is an attempt to reconcile race realism to liberalism by claiming that the reality of low black IQ and high black criminality (and now Hispanice as well) doesn’t mean we have to stop being liberals because recognizing the truth about racial differences will allow us well intentioned whites to help blacks more effectively, for example with a more realistic response to natural devastations of black populated areas of the country (e.g. Katrina) and by creating a new rapid response disaster relief organization similar to the National Guard but with lower IQ standards that could include blacks, which Steve Sailer has proposed.

(Read the entire email as well as Mr. Auster's comments here).

(Nota bene: my criticism is of Jason Lande's email, not of Mr. Auster, who disagreed with Mr. Lande in the areas where I consider Mr. Lande's objections to Steve Sailer to be racist).

What I find racist in Mr. Lande's letter is the implication that helping blacks is "liberal" in a pejorative sense (on VFR, the term "liberalism" is associated with nihilism and social fabric-destroying tendencies). The obvious impliation here is that if there are natural factors disadvantaging blacks (e.g. if blacks on average naturally have a lower IQ than other racial groups), then that is their problem, and rather than offering insights as to how to integrate* blacks with all of the other groups in our culture, it gives us a reason to be indifferent to their suffering.

If you read the entirety of the letter (or at least the entirety of what was posted by Mr. Auster), there is also the implication that if there are innate racial differences, that they represent an insurmountable obstacle to racial harmony (for lack of a better term). But, as Mr. Auster points out, there is a great deal of room to improve the position of blacks in our society even if there is an innate IQ difference. Put another way, "race realism" does not mean that whatever the relative status and standards of behavior for blacks and whites (and everyone else) is in society is fixed and immutable, predestined by our innate abilities. Rather, it means that expecting equal outcomes in all fields is an unrealistic goal. It also means that integrating different races into one society requires findings ways to utilize the particular strengths of each group and to negate, ameliorate, or compensate for the weaknesses of each group.

Put another way, the reason to study racial differences is to determine how we can all get along and help each other, not to find excuses for being indifferent to those outside of your own group.

There are some other ideas that (mostly) whites have that I think are damaging to minorities (particularly blacks), but that I wouldn't call "racist" per se, so I will wait to post on them until later.

That is all.

* By "integrate," I mean that socially blacks and whites (and all other races) view their goals a complementary rather than as opposed, and choose to cooperate for their mutual betterment. It does not necessarily mean geographic integration, although it certainly could include that to the extent that it is mutually beneficial.