Some Reasons are Off-Limits

[Marley23]

I know you saw this, Shodan, but I think Malthus did a better job explaining the issue (in the Pit thread) than I have:

@Malthus

I disagree. The focus of discussion is on what difference an event - imperialism - made on the trajectory of african history, not on the average intelligence of Africans.

I suppose one could argue that the average intelligence of a group is the important determinant of every historical “what-if” scenario, but the absurdity of constantly harping on this must surely be evident. It reduces what is different about different questions on Africa to a boring sameness - simply put, every discussion on African historical questions would reduce to the same-old, same-old wearisome discussion about the Bell Curve.

If the question is ‘how would African history be different if not for colonialism,’ ‘they’re less intelligent than Europeans’ is not an on-point answer.