Nonsense. You are just spouting establishment politically correct control language. Culture is culture and race is race. Whatever differences there are in people because of race are just there- whatever they are. For sure there are some obvious physical differences, but I don't see any that affect the persons inherent status as a human being. Beyond that, there are substantial effects of having been exposed to cultural issues at an early age that can be changed as one grows up and thinks about them, but often are not. Hence profiling and generalizations based on culture are not evil at all so long as one recognizes that early exposure to cultural beliefs is not a guarantee that an individual continues to hold those beliefs.

Ayn Rand could not have been aware of recent realizations about consciousness, the mind and resulting behavior. The entire concept, like many things we Thought were true, turned out not to be.

Actually, some people do reject the acts of conscience or are unable to become conscious. We see this with much of the world, especially islam, it's the lack of concepts in their language and their mysticism, politics and laws that prevents them from becoming consciously introspective and able to control their own behavior.
My observations of many politicians of the left tells me that they are not aware of their own behavior nor the consequences of their actions.

We don't just forget about race when there are racists. But no one "rejects consciousness". If you want to see why and how people reject rationality and individualism, including through racism, read Ayn Rand's non-fiction essays, in this context especially, on "Racism" and "Global Balkanization".

Question...seriously, why are you so oversensitive on this subject...just because progressive humanoids have put this false notion in our heads, doesn't mean it's reality.
If we All acknowledge this is bull crap...then we win, they lose, they no longer have a weapon to use.

Why don't we just concentrate on behavior and content of character...that's fair game. Forget the false notion of "race" and figure out what causes a human being to reject conscience and consciousness itself, reject one's ability to produce or create value instead of usurping value from others.
At least at that point we might be able to make sure that they never end up in government...like hiltery, obobo, reid, nancy or shultz.

Perhaps the reason we find minorities with these problems is a progressive intention or misconception to put these people in this position.
As we all have noticed: Leftist, liberals, progressives and some southerners have become what they think about most of the time...seems to me that they are covering for their own hubris in thinking they are better than others...just maybe they are unaware of that little voice that speaks for their subconscious. Maybe they have no voice or have chosen not to listen, chosen not to respond differently and account for their own flawed characters; in which case would mean they are not conscious beings at all.

Your posts are filled with racists language. Racism is an evil, not a subjective "emotional term" made up to control people.

Obviously there are different inherited physical characteristics which can be classified, including simple skin color. They are irrelevant for judging character and ideas, and may or may not be relevant for things like medicine. The resulting significance has nothing to do with how small blood cells and genes are, so please stop prattling about others as being "dumb" for recognizing obvious effects that you don't. That includes the choice of some to be ugly racists based on observable but contextually irrelevant features.

There is no such thing as a different race of conscious human being...we all comprise 1 of the 4 bloodtypes, same features and as far as skin color...the chemical that determines skin color could fit on the head of a pin with room left over...kind of dumb to base that as a significant difference.
A great possible example of a different race of a conscious being would be perhaps, human versus dolphin- however, it's never been proven that dolphins have the ability to introspect. (awareness of one's own awareness)

You can call me what you want. I know how I decide on things and it has nothing to do with "race" Racism is an emotional term used to day to control peoples behavior.

"We" do not think in racist, collectivist terms "all the time", whether or not rationalized by statistical "quick and easy earmarks". That is not conceptual, principled thinking. Your language is full of racism

Racism is very real. As the crudest form of collectivism it is morally despicable. Read Ayn Rand's essay "Racism" in her The Virtue of Selfishness and stop smearing people as "just playing into false narratives". This is an Ayn Rand forum for her philosophy of reason and individualism, not a repository for racist cargo cult science.

'Race is not real...it's a progressive invention...your just playing into their false narrative.

Its not racism. I am just pointing out the culture has has quick and easy earmarks which are accurate to some percentage. One of them is neighborhoods and the obvious signs of the people who live in them. A large percentage of people with black skin happen to live in undesirable neighborhoods for a variety of reasons where there is a lot of crime, drugs, etc. In LA, there are asian neighborhoods that are infested with asian gangs. There is nothing wrong with making a generalization as long as one realizes that generalizing is only accurate some percentage of the time. We do this all the time with many things including purchases. Look at the people who stopped going to Chipotle altogether after their virus episode. They generalized that all chipotle food could be infected, but the consequences of an actual infection were so great as to justify the generalization for a time.

You repeatedly equate culture with race. Racism is irrational and unjust, and is not excused by statistics. Rejecting racism is not a matter of "political correctness" or "hurting feelings". If you don't intend to be racist then watch your language.

The charge of "racism" is overblown. I could care less about which race a person is from- thats just dna. The charge is used as a politically correct way of controlling people, but believe me, it goes nowhere with me. I dont think that a particular race is somehow different in a basic human way at all. But when a person is born into a particular culture and steeped in its values, most people never escape from that indoctrination without serious thinnking. And the number who seriously think and change their understanding of life isnt very large. Therefore, I maintain that the majority of black people, or asian people, jewish people, etc exhibit pretty much the cultural traits that they were raised into. Therefore, although not 100% accurate as a gauge to evaluate people, it does have a fairly high percentage accuracy. If I miss out on good people , its my loss. If I wind up hurting someones feellings, I would apologize to them without hesitation. Thats why I just stay away from cultures I do not feel comfortable around.

When you look at black neighborhoods and associate them with entitled black culture you are responding to race. There is no such thing as black culture just as there is no such thing as white culture.

You can choose to deal with anyone you want, as a racist or not, but what you "owe" people in respecting their rights alone does not make every other reaction rational. Justice is a basic virtue of the Objectivist ethics, and neither justice nor ethics are restricted to only what you use force for, contrary to a-philosophical libertarian 'up yours' defiance.

Rationality, ethics and individualism are fundamentally individual and personal, not political. Practicing a right to be peacefully racist is still racist and as such morally abhorrent right down to the roots of the racist's own thought processes. Anyone can and should stay out of dangerous-looking neighborhoods and denounce the entitlement mentality. That does not entail racist slurs and package deals rationalized by statistics.

She is a visionary. It is a micro-economic experiment to determine the response to the US not making on debt payments.

But when I look at a primarily black neighborhood I see mostly the predominant entitled black culture. I say mostly because it's not a 100% certainty by any means. It's not their race that I am responding to. It's their culture. And I don't owe anyone more than to respect their human rights. Anything else is my choice, as it is others' prerogative to react to me any way they want

No...our OT biblical ancestors had no conscience, had not the ability to review his own behavior and needed fear of consequence outside himself to keep a lid on it. Everything was the fault of something outside themselves...just like the creatures in present day government.
The brain only bicameral mentality could solve problems but could not reason properly and was rarely rational. That didn't start until the Greek civilization, somewhere between the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Would remembering the Bible statement have made any difference. It says nothing about following the advice making any difference in giving the congresswoman something bigger to do than her finances. Honesty and integrity have nothing to do with The Bible. They are individual choices that one makes whether influenced or not. She apparently has neither.

What socio-economic neighborhoods you risk going into has nothing to do with racist language about "tendencies" and "entitlement" as inherent belief. If you look at a run-down neighborhood with punks lounging around looking for trouble that is why we stay away, not because of race.

Injustice pertains to all judgment and treatment of people; it is not restricted to forcibly violating people's rights. Denouncing racism and racist attitudes as the crudest form of collectivism is not a matter of "political correctness".

You didn't start anything 3000 years ago. You didn't exist. You were born with the same potential for rational thought as anyone else. However the ability of rationality evolved over time long ago, dismissing "most of the world" as not having made a "transition" to consciousness is ignorant and thoroughly racist.

How drunk is she? Oh, she's a politician...we'll start with 25% odds of alcoholism, which drives egomania, which drives a "rules don't apply to me" attitude. Then act on that and don't pay your rent? It's not just booze.

That's so far from the truth it's funny. see: Julian Jaynes: Brake down of the bicameral mind. It's been more and more excepted and proven to be accurate. Mankind, some of us anyway, started our journey into self introspection about 3000 years ago. Most of the world, to date, has not made that transition. Much of it is due to culture and language.

Again...no such thing...it's a progressive invention.