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From: melissa@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Melissa Silvestre)
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Subject: Re: Racists and Meat Eaters
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 10:11:49 EDT
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In article <2558@watdcsu.UUCP> dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) writes:
>
>Of course, we all know about your typical racist... he/she considers
>his/her own skin colour as a mark of superiority.  Practically nobody
>thinks that people of some *other* race are superior to themselves.
>
>-- 
>David Canzi		"If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"


I'm going to get seriously flamed for this, but:

I am white, half Portuguese and the rest a mix of Italian, English, and
French.

After being at Harvard, then working at MIT for several years, I am forced
to come to the conclusion that two ethnic/racial groups seem to have
a disproportionate amount of "superior intellect" genes in their gene
pools. Those two groups are Jews and Asians. Note that I am neither.
In fact, if I ever have children, I hope things work out such that
their father is a member of one (or both, but Jewish Asians are rare) of 
these groups.

I believe that the statistics on various tests, both American (like the SAT)
and international (I don't know any names but you hear about them in the
news a lot) will bear this view out.

I believe there is a totally biological explanation, involving isolation
of gene pools and so forth, so I don't consider myself a racist in the
usual sense of believing in a racial difference out of ignorance and
brainwashing.

Donning my asbestos suit (that's becoming a really bad cliche around here):
-- 
Melissa Silvestre (melissa@athena.mit.edu)