Jared Taylor: The Biological Reality of Race

In this video Jared Taylor explains why some people argue that race is not a real biological reality but a sociological optical illusion.  He addresses how this idea is wrong and what it is partly based on:

• The idea that races don’t exist, and are a sociological optical illusion defies common sense.
• The idea that most of human variation occurs within races, and not between races is misleading.
• The differences between races are significant, just like the small differences between men and women lead to differences in important traits.
• Race differences are differences in averages between groups.  Just because there is greater variation within sexes, for traits such as height, than between sexes, it does not mean that an average height difference between sexes does not exist.
• People who deny that races exist would also have to deny that dog breeds exist.
• For dog breeds even though most of the variation is within a breed, it does not mean there are no significant differences between breeds.

Then he outlines various biologically based differences between the races:

• Genetic studies can identify races based on small pieces of DNA.
• Race can even be identified by the type of bacteria living in one’s mouth.
• There are race differences in hormone levels, gestation time, rate of development, brain size, eye size, genital size, hair type, bone density, fat distribution, age of puberty onset, life span, twinning rates, myopia rates, disease rates, etc.
• There are race differences in metabolism.
• There are medical differences between the races.
• Sub-Saharan Africans, and other indigenous African people’s e.g. Bushmen, are the only people who do not have Neanderthal admixture.
• There are race, and sub-race differences in sporting abilities.

He explains that the reasons for adopting the false view that races don’t exist are:

• To persuade White people that mixed marriages, and immigration mean nothing. Replacing Whites with other races is like replacing them with themselves.
• People are afraid that if there are races, and races are different then there could be race differences in intelligence.