Racism is a meaningless term

Race is a meaningless term. Race based on a single phoneme (melanin) is exponentially more meaningless.

Let's say someone says that black people have lower I.Q. than white people. Again, you'll be met with the term racist.

To accuse someone of racism or being a racist, is nothing but a slanderous invocation.

Today,racism is demonised to the point of self-parody,

but if we take a moment to analyse its usage, we can see that it means nothing.

Let's say someone says that blacks need to be put back into slavery because they're not worthy of regular jobs. Most people are going to say that's racist.

Let's say someone says that black people have lower I.Q. than white people. Again, you'll be met with the term racist.

And here you see the issue. The first claim could be (rightly) seen as racial hatred. The second claim is factual and supported by a ridiculous amount of evidence (http://humanvarieties.org...),yet the conclusion is that they are both "racist".

In order words, it's still possible to be correct *and* "racist", however the latter label will have you pigeon-holed with real racial hatred (as we saw in the former example), as if you're wrong for pointing out facts.

That leads us to ask the question: what can we infer from the labelling of "racist?"

Not a whole lot, other than the fact that both claims refer to race. So merely referring to race, as if that's as bad as being Hitler, gets you called a "racist", and we know what happens when you're confirmed as such. So, there's a gigantic disconnect between the real parameters of "racism" (that it merely refers to race), and the application of it (that you're "literally Hitler"). That's because it doesn't have a concrete definition -- it merely exist to shut down reference to race.

Yes. Both of those terms are racist.

A website written by an antisemitc crank hardly constitutes "a ridiculous amount of evidence."

That you hold some races to be inferior or less deserving of others.

References to race have little to no utility.

What is with your obsession over racial IQ gaps? 

How do you deal with anomalies to an ethnicity? Are you going to 'pigeon hole' them into what the majority of their ethnicity is?

Lol. Being factual about provable racial differences is "racist".

So you're attempting to rebut my claim that racism is purely a slanderous term to discredit, and in doing so you're using a purely slanderous term to discredit.

Blacks have, on average, lower I.Q. than whites. Deal with it.

Wrong. They can accurately predict crime and poverty.

You're just an emotional zealot triggered out of your mind by the mention of race, and are evidently unable to comprehend the fact that races are different. Just a pathetic man, honestly.

"...its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

It can be, yes. Indeed, racism often depends on the differences between races.

I don't think you know what slander means.

You're a racist. Deal with it.

I think you have your causal factors mixed up.

I'm not the one who started the thread, hon. I never said races aren't different. The categorization, as vague and as it may be, is never the less rooted in differences among people, however superficial. But I didn't think this thread was about races and was about you trying to get a free pass to spout racist nonsense without being called out as a racist.

My bad.

Not an obsession,

just a very important talking point, given the implications (I.Q. is an extremely strong predictor of the ability to function in a society).

• Manly, J. J., Jacobs, D. M., Touradji, P., Small, S. A., & Stern, Y. (2002). Reading level attenuates differences in neuropsychological test performance between African American and White elders. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8(3), 341-348.
  

So pointing out something that is factually accurate (racial differences) is akin to being "literally Hitler".

If you bothered to read the OP properly (not a bad idea to do before commenting), then you'd know this term is meaningless.

You haven't posted a shred of evidence to support your claims (unlike me). Instead, you've just called people whom disagree with you names, as if that's going to convince anyone (hint: it's not). This is a debate site where we post evidence/studies/sources to support what we say. If you can't rebut my racial claims without calling me a meaningless term (racist), then you don't belong here.

I think it's true that African-American people, for instance, have statistically lower IQ than white people -- I wouldn't say that saying that is necessarily racist. The problem, I think, is that IQ is a deeply flawed measure of intelligence constructed in a way that privileges people with other social and economic privilege.

Acknowledging it as a flawed measure of anything other than the ability to take an IQ test, why would anyone bring this up as a point! The OP isn't a poorly programmed robot mindlessly spouting bad science trivial. There is a purpose, a reason, why certain groups of people roll out the "Blacks don't IQ" misinformation: they think blacks are mentally inferior to whites and want to believe that science backs them on this.