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Entry: Two New Myth-Busting Books Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/two_new_myth_busting_books#5106 Post contents: There is nothing wrong in noting the physical differences among different groups. What is wrong is the ideology that says that those differences are a preeminent fact in deciding how to deal with them. This ideology is just one leftover from the pseudosciences of the nineteenth century, and in its most extreme heretical, as some proponentes came up with a Creation story that dispensed with Adam and Eve and instead said that God created all different races in the garden of Eden. The fact is that racism like all pseudosciences is lousy at providing information that we need on how to conduct ourselves. For example, you may say that racists are just incompetent paranoiacs. They tend to believe in the inherent goodness of those of what they call "kith and kin" and reserve their distrust, scorn, and even hartred towards those who are not. Of course, quite often when their "kith and kin" stab them in the back they are extremely surprised. Sent at: 2008 05 16