The problem, of course, is that not every idea can be debunked, because some of them are true. And when you start with the conviction that you're bound to "debunk" everything, and can't, it gets ugly. Here's a racist comment:
Africans are, on average, less intelligent than Japanese.
Now, you're just not going to want to get into that argument, because it's unwinnable. The only way to win it is to avoid it, or to start throwing imprecations around. This is a serious dilemma for the anti-racist side of the argument, because they are believers in equality--and when you believe in something that doesn't exist, it's religion.
hmm... I could understand how you could defend something like Africans are, on average, less educated than Japanese or something like Africans have less opportunity from their environment to educate themselves and thus have less knowledge and intelligence (but then which type of intelligence?) than Japanese...
But defending your original quote, you would have to prove me that african kids raised in the same conditions as japanese kids are less intelligent than the japanese kids... And I don't believe there is any studies proving this...
In our world there is no equality of circumstances and we are pretty much a product of our environment so how could the produce of wildly varying environment be equal? So I don't think you can single out a 'race' as being more or less intelligent, you have to consider the political environment, the culture, the natural environment... and so on
Well. It's pretty clear that your ignorance is fundamental. I can't possibly explain the world to you in a comment here. I recommend starting with this,
The problem, of course, is that not every idea can be debunked, because some of them are true. And when you start with the conviction that you're bound to "debunk" everything, and can't, it gets ugly. Here's a racist comment:
Now, you're just not going to want to get into that argument, because it's unwinnable. The only way to win it is to avoid it, or to start throwing imprecations around. This is a serious dilemma for the anti-racist side of the argument, because they are believers in equality--and when you believe in something that doesn't exist, it's religion.