What is the difference of discrimination of stupid people and racism?

We now know that your level of Intelligence, Smartness, and perhaps even Wisdom comes from you genetic predisposition. The color of your skin is no different. Moreover, why is there discrimination of people who aren’t born so smart. I am not talking about the mentally handicapped, but people who can’t comprehend simple mathematics.

What are your opinions?

4 Comments so far

  1. khahrosh on November 7th, 2009

    Simple discrimination, Will, can be used against anyone:
    no matter what their intelligence level is; no matter what
    their skin color is.
    Racism, though, is a different sort of discrimination: it is
    only ethnicity based.

    I hope that helps.

  2. becare on November 7th, 2009

    I think discrimination against someone lacking in intelligence would be far more difficult to ascertain than discrimination against someone because of race. People who are less smart are naturally going to be passed over for positions or jobs that would require an ability to know how to do something like simple math. Doing so would not be discrimination but simply a necessity and the way the world works.

  3. Allan on November 7th, 2009

    Smartness (or Intelligence)/Wisdom comes from life experiences, not genetic predisposition, and therefore isn’t discrimination.

  4. Imee M on November 7th, 2009

    I think racist and discrmination is about the same. I have a question to you. What would you do if one of your co worker said to you ” why you all foreigner woman have to come to united state and marry american? Why you think American is rich? I’m Asian and she told me all that word? I did not report her to work coz I thought she we get in trouble so I just told all of this to my other co worker guess what I’m the who’s in trouble now because somebody complain about me that I’m saying something againts her? What to do now? Should I get me a lawyer? Or what? I need help. They told me at work I cannot talk to anybody because it’s under investigation. I feel so bad I feel I’m all by my self nobody on my side I can’t hardy eat or sleep most of the time I’m crying because why I’m the whose in trouble? Why nobody believe? Is it because I’m Asian? Why I don’t undertand? I need help so bad I need an advise?

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