Originally posted by William Joyce
Darwin was right. It's not "belief" that matters here, it's reality. The reality is that races evolved differently over periods of thousands of years.
THAT, gentlemen, is what leads to the state of affairs so accurately described by Vdare:
The Local People Meter brouhaha says quite a bit about the mixed messages we get on race in America.
We are constantly lectured that “there is only one race, the human race,” that America is a melting pot, and that you can’t generalize about racial groups (except for whites, about whom it’s OK to generalize that they’re very bad/very boring/ both).
But what was the core of the complaint that blacks and Hispanics were being undercounted by a television ratings system if not racial generalizations?
Because if a black or Hispanic person is as likely to watch any given show as any white person, and vice versa, it wouldnÂ’t matter whether Nielsen was undercounting any group.
However, this is clearly not how members of racial minorities see themselves. They see themselves as members of groups who do, in fact, have tastes in common, and whose interests are best represented when they present as a group. Similarly with their complaints about the Census and about voting districts.
And none of this is greeted with any consternation by the powers that be. But woe unto the person who suggests that whites, too, have group interests.
The undercount nonsense reveals deep contradictions on race in America. It should raise serious questions for those still clinging to the fantasy of a soon-to-come multiracial, multilingual, multicultural nirvana promised by immigration enthusiasts like National ReviewÂ’s John J. Miller.
Diversity is not strength. It is weakness. But donÂ’t expect the establishment media or anyone in Washington to explore this anytime soon.
As for those who do, well, they arenÂ’t counted.