and yes iq is correlated with racew

but I think it's environmental

Also race in general wasn't even a concept of color of skin until some dude ironically named coon invented the 5 Races idea.

It is though

Then why are policies such as affirmative action based on race

It is when we want to advantage black people?

Yes

Everyone accepts race

And it seems some race have higher IQ

Not anthropologists

not biologists.

Well most people accept the concept of race

doesn't make it useful nor scientifically true

Why is it used in affirmative action?

Because its a political class of people who are and were oppressed

its not practical to look at their ancestry

on an individual basis.

Race wasn't even considered as color of skin until 1779 when Blumenbach proposed them in The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.

Its all a social construct.

What we know is that generally, black people were and are treated unfairly in America.

Ok

Especially with regards to education

We also know that generally, black people have lower IQ

Schools in black area's will just be worst by virtue of having less funding

Not generally, statistically.

Yes true

Libertarians also have higher IQ's

than any other political group

You can't use race sometimes and deny it when you don't like it

How is that relevant?

Yes you can, I deny race as a scientific category

while also admitting it does exsist as a political group

and a descriptive group

Like red heads

or blondes

Just throwing that out there. I'm going to continue arguing as though I believe in the current construct of races, but I was stating that historically we didn't consider races as color of skin and such until the late 1700s.

or people with blue eyes

Its a fairly new idea.

In the history of the world.

they serve utility with regards to the description of people

and so does race