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[–]FediNetizen 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Environment plays a minor role, and those gullible enough to of been led to believe otherwise are complicit in promoting a non scientific faith based belief system

So just to be clear here, you believe that if I grow up in a single-parent household, that almost doesn't matter? Or if I grow up poor, that almost doesn't matter? Or if my neighborhood has 5x the rate of violent crime you'd find in a middle class suburb, that almost doesn't matter?

What I need to believe is that none of these things really matter, and what really matters is whether or not I'm black, and if I don't I am complicit in promoting a non-scientific faith-based belief system?

[–]Zahn 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Yes. Usually the simplest answer is the more correct answer. Or you can go through elaborate mental gymnastics, cherry picking information to arrive at your own predetermined conclusion.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/minds-business/is-success-in-our-genes.html

And so much more. Regardless of race, you already are cognitive of the fact there are actual "dumb" people. Genetics is most everything. This is like an intelligence litmus test for you, can you figure it out?

[–]BigFatRetard 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Intelligence isn't necessarily success.

If you have a few kids from the same parent, you can have much different outcomes for each child despite ostensibly having a relatively similar genetic makeup.

Just look at the Trumps. Donald Trump became President and bangs supermodels, Fred Trump drank himself to death.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What a misleading characterization. Fred built the foundation that Trump stands on and taught him the real estate game.

[–]BigFatRetard 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not the elder Fred Trump, Fred Trump Fred and Mary Trump's son and Donald's brother.