| We might be getting closer, but I still have yet to see any evidence of this assertion.
You are now stating that racism is illogical (racisim, incidentally, has not been defined either). That gives you a hypothesis to work with.
However, I could equally hypothesise that behavioural differences between racial groups (caused by both hereditary and cultural factors) make conflict between racial groups inevitable. Therefore it is logical (and sensible) that racial groups be segregated.
Perhaps more critically, I could argue that there are a lot of other factors that contribute to racists attitudes (for example, the broad societal attitude; the specific attitudes of your local culture) and these drown out any possible effect of intelligence.
Extending that a little further, I could propose that when one is more intelligent, they are exposed to a different context (eg more likely to participate in tertiary education), and this context is the dominant causal factor. The relationship between racism and intelligence is co-incidental.
Now we have four hypothesise. One says that intelligence is positively associated with racism. One says it is negatively associated with racism. A third says it is not associated at all. The fourth says that there is an xpected co-incidence, but there is no causal relationship. Which of these is correct? Well, we could argue about this for weeks on end and get no-where. But luckily, this is an empirical question, which can be solved by evidence -- the evidence I have been asking for.
There's not much point in dragging this out much longer. 'Political correctness' is a badly applied label, most of the time. The underlying principle of it when applied correctly is to prevent people from making unjustified statement -- either explicitly or implicitly. In the specific example we used, you asserted a direct relationship between two phenomena (intelligence and racism), yet provided no substantive evidence for that relationship (and, to be honest, took a lot of pushing to even explain what you really meant). I suspect you still believe that intelligence and racism are related -- but you have provided nothing that should convince anyone else of this idea. |