CMV: The belief that certain races are smarter on average isn't proved wrong

I never mentioned genetics in my argument at all. I think the only place where I mentioned it was in my second paragraph where I explicitly said that I know race isn't based off genetics. I'm aware of the pseudo scientific bullshit that tries to correlate the two, since race is just a concept.

I was merely using the term "race" as it was defined in Britannica (i.e., a group of people inheriting the same set of additional behavioral and physical traits, on top of ones common to all humans). Maybe this wasn't a good definition to use, since most people don't think in these terms when discussing race. It's like how philosophers say "free will" to refer to compatibilist free will instead of libertarain free will. Weird example but you get my point.

Anyway, if you accept that definition, what do you do about differing behavioral traits? Do you say they play no difference whatsoever? I don't see how you could prove this, considering behavior is very related to intelligence. I'm interested in knowing if the scientific papers you refer to discuss race based off the definition I've give, or if they focus on debunking flawed definition with genetics. And I absolutely accept environmental and cultural factors play a huge majority of the role in intelligence (and many other things too), but the interesting question is whether inherited behavioral traits do as well.

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