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Low Intelligence Linked To Racism

Frankly, those who give in to racism and prejudice may just simply be rather unintelligent. One study suggested that those who gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies were more inclined to f orm and hold racist and prejudice views, because the conservative ideologies stress hierarchy and resistance to change. But we all know that progress just f or the sake of progress is equally meaningless. It may be that those who hold deeply rooted prejudice, and racist views, may actually just not know any better, or are cognitively incapable of being f ree f rom bias. Several studies suggest that there is a strong correlation between intolerance, racism, and prejudice in general, with reduced cognitive ability, and lower integrative complexity (putting dif f erent, separate, ideas together). In an analysis of two large-scale data sets, it was f ound that lower intelligence in childhood predicted greater racism in adulthood. A secondary analysis of a U.S. Data set , also conf irmed a predictive ef f ect of poor abstract-reasoning skills on anti-homosexual prejudice. People with lower cognitive abilities were f ound to interact less with individuals of other races. Although valid, this data shouldnt imply that all racists are of low intelligence: it is likely that some are merely manipulative psychopaths. But the f indings could suggest that those children of lesser intelligence are more likely to establish and hold racist, homophobic and other small-minded and prejudice views. In one study conducted in the United States, researchers Hodson and Busseri compared 254 people with the same amount of education, but who had varying levels of ability in abstract reasoning. T hey f ound that people who were poorer at abstract reasoning were more likely to exhibit prejudice against homosexuals. It doesnt really come as a surprise that those who are less-tolerant would f all on the slightly close-minded side, because perhaps they lack the ability to abstract or think critically about inf ormation f or themselves. Understanding the roots of racism and bias could help eliminate them (prejudice). Anti-prejudice programs encourage participants to see things f rom another groups point of view, but that mental exercise may be too taxing f or people of low IQ, Hodson said. Retired American statesman Dr. Ron Paul, has stated that the libertarian movement is the enemy of all racism:

Although there is a constant movement towards individuals being accepted or who they are, except to some extent f rom the state, there remain those whowill always hold their passionate and hatef ul closeminded views toward others. And maybe some will just never know any better than to operate as such. For the rest of us, we see each individual as a sovereign being deserving of equal rights. And race as concrete catagories is socially constructed, to cleverly distract us f rom recognizing the universal truth that we are all simply human: we all bleed red. Sure there are cosmetic and external dif f erences, but we each posses the same organs and same f unctioning human body. We do not need to place ourselves into sealed boxes, and decide to see others as being lesser than us because, by blind chance, we were born into a dif f erent box. Contemporary views of race continue to reject the validity of any biological basis of race, and in the early twentyf irst century it is most common to view race as being constructed f rom societal belief s and actions.

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