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No I didn't. Don't tell me what I do or do not think. Instead, put aside your preconceptions and actually read and digest what I post.
Read carefully: race and talents are both features of an individual. One has no bearing on the other. To use a more simple analogy than before (since you clearly couldn't understand it), to say individual talents are dependant on race is like saying a ball is bouncy because it is round. They are independent features.
However, it is an obvious trend that people of indigenous heritage (round balls) TEND to have particular talents (bounciness) over other talents, to varying degrees. Now if a child said he wanted bouncy objects for toys, it would be likely that many of the toys he buys would be balls. Not all balls are bouncy (bowling balls, for example), and not all bouncy objects are balls (OK, I'm actually struggling to think of examples, but you get the point).
If you were to observe that the child did not buy any balls, it would be a logical to think that it's unlikely he enjoys bouncy objects for toys.
Jesus, you really don't get it. When people say "we should recruit some indigenous players to get more speed and flair into the team", do you honestly think that means recruiting indigenous players regardless of performance? Or overlooking a white player with similar features just because he's white? Recruiting a Roger Hayden wouldn't do much for team balance, and everybody knows that (not that he's not a decent player, he just doesn't have that pace and flair that people commonly associate with indigenous players, backing up both of our points). Neither would another Andrew McLeod. The point is that a very large proportion of the players with the features we'd be looking for ARE indigenous, so it's just easier to say "lets recruit some indigenous players". What is meant is "let's recruit some players who display the traits most commonly found in indigenous players", but seriously, if people say that, then that's political correctness gone mad.
If you think that is denigrating and derogatory, then I'd very much like to know why. It's all very well to say that you think it's bad, but I'd like to hear the reasoning. You can't just proclaim things by fiat and not expect to get called on it.
Read carefully: race and talents are both features of an individual. One has no bearing on the other. To use a more simple analogy than before (since you clearly couldn't understand it), to say individual talents are dependant on race is like saying a ball is bouncy because it is round. They are independent features.
However, it is an obvious trend that people of indigenous heritage (round balls) TEND to have particular talents (bounciness) over other talents, to varying degrees. Now if a child said he wanted bouncy objects for toys, it would be likely that many of the toys he buys would be balls. Not all balls are bouncy (bowling balls, for example), and not all bouncy objects are balls (OK, I'm actually struggling to think of examples, but you get the point).
If you were to observe that the child did not buy any balls, it would be a logical to think that it's unlikely he enjoys bouncy objects for toys.
Jesus, you really don't get it. When people say "we should recruit some indigenous players to get more speed and flair into the team", do you honestly think that means recruiting indigenous players regardless of performance? Or overlooking a white player with similar features just because he's white? Recruiting a Roger Hayden wouldn't do much for team balance, and everybody knows that (not that he's not a decent player, he just doesn't have that pace and flair that people commonly associate with indigenous players, backing up both of our points). Neither would another Andrew McLeod. The point is that a very large proportion of the players with the features we'd be looking for ARE indigenous, so it's just easier to say "lets recruit some indigenous players". What is meant is "let's recruit some players who display the traits most commonly found in indigenous players", but seriously, if people say that, then that's political correctness gone mad.
If you think that is denigrating and derogatory, then I'd very much like to know why. It's all very well to say that you think it's bad, but I'd like to hear the reasoning. You can't just proclaim things by fiat and not expect to get called on it.
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