# Are you a racist? Warning signs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2014, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-racist-warning-signs/692519 "2014-07-07T08:12:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1368
**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-racist-warning-signs/692519/1368 "2014-08-12T12:11:43Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Hell, it would be _shocking_ if there wasn’t a gap, considering our history! You think it’s just a coincidence that the two groups treated most brutally through American history – Native Americans and African Americans – just so happen to have the lowest average performance in academic tests? Did the early racist Americans _just so happen_ to brutalize and exploit the two groups with the most inferior genes for intelligence? I am curious why you think an ancestral history of brutality prevents a student from learning that 2 + 2 = 4. And why whatever reason that is would apply, say, to blacks but not the Ashkenazi? Can you be more specific about what it is that happens with a history of brutality to prevent a current student from learning? I’ve interviewed hundreds of candidates for med school over the years, and I actually saw quite a few neat success stories for immigrants (Vietnamese, e.g.) whose parents suffered quite a bit, but who themselves were still able to learn once given an opportunity. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-racist-warning-signs/692519)._