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Originally Posted by Jiggymike
I mean is pointing out differences in groups always problematic? I have no doubt that someone making a post like that is pretty racist but is it controversial to point out that black people tend to be better at basketball (and are generally more athletic) than other groups or people?
It's not controversial, it's just incorrect.
In making that statement you are assuming your conclusion. You assume that the human races reflect real biological borders. That there is biological distance between the groups. You assume that distance allows you to make meaningful predictions. All of which is not supported by any evidence.
There are some subsets of people who have a small genetic advantage at the elite level. Your error is attributing that advantage to race, when the racial border is far, far away.
Imagine you distribute genetic differences to small populations all over the world. Then you draw some lines on the globe to define races. Each of the small populations will fall inside one of your races, but none of your races will have any advantages because you didn't use genetics to draw the lines.
"Black people" don't have an advantage at long distance running. Some members of the Kalenjin tribe (in Kenya) do have a genetic advantage for marathons. Our delusions about race are so deeply ingrained that many of us can't separate these ideas. The Kenyans always win and we attribute it to black people. Wrongly. For black (not Kenyan) people, running long distances is the same pain as for everybody else.
The races we use don't have any proven biological value. It's self-serving lies that we think are science.