Race was constructed to benefit white society. Failing to understand these origins will only confuse everything thereafter. The history of race as a european social construction matters - more importantly why this was done. Today Racism supports white wealth & white purity. Don't get it twisted. Stay woke

Words mean nothing in a white supremacist society which was founded on institutionalized racism. We need bold action. We need president Bernie Sanders to lead the way. 💯

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For real. If our public schools, can’t do it at least the internet + patreon can.

How are blacks held back in USA?

Why?

3 years later and it’s still needed NOW more than ever!!

misanthropiclusion Or maybe people have legitimate objections to the video. ...or they all are just racists of course, because reasons....

They think they have legitimate objections because they are racist, but don't want to admit that.

That's false. Everyone hates to hear this course because it usually attacks inequality and social true behavior (Esfera de confort). Watch over the dislike bar of any sociology course's video and you will agree.

Think this is bad? Wait til someone mentions gender issues

You say that but every time a person who against the race conflict theory comes up in the media they get torn apart because the left is full of bigots and bores and bullies who can't discuss because the statistics don't agree with them and so make a moral panic and make up false facts.

They pronounced his name the way he did when he was alive.

Anthony Forsberg, it is a French last name meaning "of the woods". And en français, it is pronounced Doo Bwah, so you are very correct in its pronunciation. But... the French dialect in the southern US is Cajun. It skews the nuances of French and hardens up the subtle sounds. The silent S becomes the last letter heard in the name "Du Bois". Even the capitalization changes to follow English standards. Anyway, hope this French vs Cajun lesson helps!! Bonne Journée!!

Merci beaucoup, Jay Ro

It's just like how Americans say St. Louis as St Lewis and not St Louis, or how they say Van Go.

Van Gogh is a little different as most English dialects don't have the phoneme for that last "gh" so it was morphed into something pronounceable, whereas the others are just pronouncing the words as they're written. Also, I always find it hilarious when flying in the US and the gate desk butchers the French names. Also probably all the other language names, but I can only tell about the French ones. :D Also, thanks for the Cajun lesson! I really appreciated it! +Jay Ro

Felipe Revuelta When has race or racism ever managed to make people angry and argumentative?

From what I can recall, never. I mean, good golly, even single-celled organisms got along perfectly fine. No sort of prejudice, subjugation, forced containment, second-class citizenship, all were equal in the primordial soup. And as they lived then, we live now. God DAMN, this hamburger is delicious. Goes great with the Mexican Coca-Cola. Oop, my shipment of five-hundred custom-printed T-shirts just got delivered. Chinese Trans-Pacific shipping is pricey, but I should turn a profit. I mean, how could I pass up cheap manufacturing? Buying a silk screen would cost more than this and take up a frak ton of time. AFK guys, I gotta go sign for those mass-produced shirts that are probably contaminated with silica powder and rat poison. Always wash your sweatshop-made clothes before selling them to avoid lawsuits, kiddos.

youtube is the boiling pot for all sorts of intellectual discussions, and is not at all inhabited by people who are mentally 13 year old maniacs

Felipe Revuelta lol

lol ok

people don't like their culture, believe, social structure, etc analyzed... so sociology will always be view with suspicion, especially by those in power.

Evidence??? Plz. source?!?

I do believe Stalin referred to sociology as bourgeois pseudoscience, along with cybernetics, genetics, Darwinian evolution and comparative linguistics.

relo999 I never said it must be true. There are so many different sociology studies and there are plenty that has been disproven. All I am saying is, people dont like it when others pry and ask questions about their culture, believe system, traditions, etc.

They only accepted Marx's and Lenin's sociological theories

General Patton we will fight the communists, yes

General Patton Yet, understand nothing about it.

Wow... that's so meta

And I'm reading comments about people reading comments about people waiting to read upcoming comments... And you're reading a comment about a person reading comments about people waiting to read upcoming comments. I think I'll stop here.

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AnimusTelum not in MLA format

Do you mean that URLs are not included in MLA format, CrashCourse does not use MLA format, or that inline citations are not a component of MLA format? I'm just a little confused as to why CrashCourse cites a source textbook in several Mythology episodes, but sporadically cites sources otherwise and why this series cites NO sources whatsoever, effectively preventing people from double-checking CC's work.

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I've always been infinitely conflicted about DuBois he did so much for the social and political realities of black people...Yet was extremely condescending and elitist in his paradigm, even white washed to a great extent. He was a member of black high society, and was at odds with Garvey and Booker T., but his thought process shifted ,ultimately causing him to repatriate to Africa, Ghana specifically.

He wrote a lot of Science Fiction too.

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Lunar Bro And people telling Doo Boys is not the correct pronounciation.

@Diego Shipmon The word you’re looking for is not ‘paradox’, but _meta_ . This comment is talking about itself. It is a meta-comment.

I'm here a week late but it looks like you called it!

Sorry but Technoldgy haven't surpassed Human evolution. Can you build a machine like human.

You try reading his books?

I am so over comments about how half the comments will be about bad comments.

Half the comments are going to be about half the comments complaining about half the comments are going to be bad.

This is getting meta...

Here I was thinking that half of the comments would be insisting that his name is pronounced du-BWA.

Dr.StickFigure at least this isn't a bad comment

Actually, you are quite likely to have more genes in common with someone in another race than with someone in your own race. Race is entirely a political category.

What you say is true. That doesn't mean it isn't based on biological features. It is. They are just very arbitrary. As a professor of mine once put it (paraphrasing): "race is mostly a social construct, but there is a biological element. You couldn't call me white, because I am clearly not. I am a black person." He then went on to talk about how he likes the color of his skin, and the shape of his nose, etc. We shouldn't go farther than we need to and just ignore reality. It weakens our argument. Race is arbitrary and mostly social. But it is based on biological traits that exist. That doesn't mean we can then start correlating those things or that it has any real value, but skin color, eye shape, etc are all biological. People who lived in similar geographic areas adapted to look a certain way.

So if taken to it's extreme your identical twin can a different race, but someone who is in every way physically different to you can be the same race. But based on conflict theory, your twin and you would be in conflict and have inequity because of societies' different treatment of you based on race.

I think a more accurate way of framing it would be to say that race is a political category indicated by observable traits. And of course those traits are biological. But as soon as you frame race as a "partly social category with a minimal biological element," the racists in the room get really excited, because you've given them a point that they can deliberately misinterpret. Frankly, I don't like exciting racists. It is just as accurate to say that race is a "political category based on observable traits," and that way of framing it has the added bonus of not appealing to racists. Just my two cents.

+Levi King Just google some key words, man. You're strawmanning pretty hard there.

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Use MORE press? That's the ultimate justification for Affirmative Action!

How are black people held back in USA?

Of course, what the video didn't mention, is that he thought moral inequity should be bred out of the black race. The only difference between his thinking and the scientific racists was that he thought that blacks inferiority was not due to the colour of their skin. He did do some cool stuff though.

connorp3033 Would it be possible for you to give us your source for "he thought moral inequity should be bred out of the black race?" I know your comment is from nine months ago.

The median is less sensitive for outliers in comparison to the mean. For example, take the following numbers and calculate the median and the mean: 3, 4, 6, 4, 8, 2, 100. The mean is 18.1, which doesn't represent any of the numbers, whereas the median(4) does a way better job at representing the numbers with the exception of the outlier(100).

@broerbier Good point, though I still would go with mean in this case. In many cases where there are huge volumes of data involved (like the thousands of data points mentioned in this story), mean might be a better representation, as the data plot could include a plethora of outliers which sort of negate theirselves, and could affect the data in a way that the median in this case could be far from the actual "average".

Though my original point was referring to my interest why the folks at CrashCourse chose to mention it. I wouldn't be surprised if the original paper would've mentioned both Mean, Median, Normal Distribution amongst others :P

Trying to paste your word absolutely brilliant !

Of course. Society is where we live. Sociology is the science

Heh, just wait another 2 weeks when we are gonna talk about gender

+Joseph Stalin If this video series is anything like a Very Short Introduction book I read on feminism, we'll get to hear about the long history of women politely suggesting that they should have the same rights, then being told to STFU by men who complain that Eve (in the Bible's book of Genesis) ruined everything and therefore female=bad.

CrashPreinsertion Im not talking about womens rights, im talking about gender, or as Bill Nye puts it "THE ABACUS OF SEX"

Sociology describes society while psychology studies individual minds and behavior.

Hammering Hank They're pretty similar, but psychology is more focused on individuals and small units like families. Sociology is much broader. It focuses on large groups, societies, and human social behavior as a whole.

No difference, they both are useless degrees.

Sociology falls apart when faced with the realities brought forward by psychology.

jpc1918 how is it for authoritarians

This gon' be gooood. *Grabs skittles*

Pretty much the only reason I clicked on it... am I too cynical?

Always come prepared to the shitstorm with popcorn ;)

POPCORN!!!! *nom nom nom*

But what are these 'biological facts'? it is untrue to claim that there are differences between races as the result of biology. As this episode rightly points out, the racial categories that we use are not based on biology or genetics but are rather defined by society. These categories are effectively arbitrary and are not backed up by science or genetics. Only 10% of the genetic variation amongst humans line up into the racial categories we have created. So, in other words, 90% of the time we are not genetically different to other people because of their race. There may very well be enormous differences between the groups we call races, but these are not due to some inherent, biological difference between the proverbial 'us and them'. Do not confuse difference in culture with ethnicity or race. People are never less intelligent because of their race. It is wrong and extremely dangerous to think that way because it leads to prejudice and a default view that someone of a different skin colour/facial shape/height is naturally different and alien to you. That can only lead to division. The very racial categories of black and white are gross over-simplifications of the variety of skin colours that exist in the world and they did not exist in the European psyche before the end of the 15th Century. Before then, when people travelled long distances they saw the gradual change in skin colours that resulted from greater exposure to the sun. It was long-distance sea travel, which allowed white Europeans to travel for months to another land and find people who looked very different to them, that led to the general racial classification that survives today. That was the first time that Europeans began categorising themselves as 'white' and people in far off lands with darker skin as 'black', 'indian' or 'mongoloid'.

Mohamed CJ Thank you! There are average differences due to genetics between different people and you can pick whatever groups you want (Sex, skin colour, etc.), but they are average and it's in my opinion easier to just test people individual. For example, if I had two people who attended for the same job and they have the exact same resume I would (if possible) just give each one a chance. Meaning, they both work for one day, or longer, and the one with the better results get the job. It gives both persons an equal chance and it helps to destroy arguments like "XYgot the job, because he was black/a woman/physically disabled/etc.!".

Sam Harris is a fraud and his PhD work is one of the main examples scientists use to show how NOT to use an fMRI and statistics. His philosophy is sub-collegiate level and illiterate. Worst of all, he can't handle debate or criticism and simply accuses anyone attacking his idea as personally attacking him, probably because he's well aware of how much of a phony he actually is.

+Will James But here's what you also have to keep in mind, adaptation.

Not in America. We also have University of Notre Dame pronounced "Noter Daim." Americans don't really "do" french.

It's tragic. My ears can't handle the American version.

Connor Hopkins Yes, it is pronounced “Du-bwah” I’m a Cajun from South Louisiana. That’s my last name. It’s French.

Even if that was true, it could also be justified by discrimination, since, as showed on the video, black people tend to have less access to education. It all comes down to prejudice and inequality

The motivations in our society are extremely strong to blame it all on discrimination. It is enough to look at Sociology, a field of study that is incapable of integrating factors into its research other than social phenomenas. It is therefore inherently flawed because it only deals with the amplyfing and distorting effects of society but does not examine the underlying reality that shapes society.

+JustTo Watch My point is not to ignore the effects sociology discovers but to question their relevance. Finding a connection is one thing but how relevant is it in light of all the factors at play? Society is so complex that they usually cant control for all the variables. In fact, you will only test for the variables you find worthwhile or real based on your worldview. You cant test for what you cant see. The philosophy undermines how you approach the issues and formulate the questions. But since this is a video on race, ill stick to the other problem. The idea that we are all blank slates at birth and its 100% upbringing is false. Sociology does not acknowledge genetics and evolutionary psychology. My position is not the denial of obvious social phenomenas to place some kind of determinism in its place. In reality, events and outcomes are the result of a co-evolution of cultural circumstances and genetical predispositions. One influences the other and vice versa. Sociology is extremely inefficient at explaining why the same phenomena like poverty or opression causes very opposite effects in different populations. But research that links behavior to the prevalence of certain genes excels at this. The underlying reality is that the average of blacks are more impulsive than the average of whites, that men and women have completely different drives, and so on and so on.

One more thing. Im aware that race is too arbitrary and cant be defined exactly who belongs where. But still if you group people to these social constructions , the group's average genetic makeup will be wildly different. Its a bit like the rainbow, you cant tell where exactly red or yellow starts but you can point at them. We know that human populations separated sometimes as much as 20k-100k years ago, that we have different amounts of neanderthal genes. We know evolution is a thing, we know different climates require different surviving skills and have different nutritions its common sense. We know there are distinct genetic lineages that are in some parts mixed some parts remained separate, it depends who you compare to who. The idea that genetic has no role in a population's success seems weird to me. We also know that different cultures have different levels of inbreeding and that it lowers IQ. Put the picture together, nature matters statistically speaking.

Im not a conservative and I dont want to ban any field of study. But I protest to call something scientific that is built on conflict theory. Its political propaganda. You can measure any group any way you like until you are rigorous and know your limits. But sociology has trailed off completely into fabricating its own loose definitions and philosophy. I cant know how bad the situation is exactly, I guess CC will help us find out in the following weeks. But you can see the result of it with all the leftist college campuses and political correctness entering into the mainstream discussion. Your theory of how science works is great, but you presuppose that there is a high standard in this field that has been kept up. At this point its more likely that ideologues took over the whole thing in the last decades in most universities in many countries, and they dont debate eachother but censor everyone else like a ruling class. But I hope that Im wrong and I will not see most of the BS ive seen elsewhere here on CC. Patriarchy theory , or the opression = prejudice + power bullshit. I doubt you would find a single person in a gender studies department who is not a feminist. Things have been redefined over the years so that they can measure and look for disadvantages for minorities and women, which sounds cool, except it isnt anymore. It is dehumanizing and it pins genders and sexes against eachother. I really cant bring you proof that everything is exactly how I see it. I can point to things like college campuses having more and more speech code, moderate right wing speakers being turned down frequently, or a research on political affiliation: emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Political-Diversity-Will-Improve-Social-Psychological-Science-1.pdf But otherwise you cant take me for granted as I mostly just seen some terrible research and some random (reviewed) degree work that dont even vaguely pass as science. Plus I saw youtube videos on some teachers who actually went as far as to get in trouble with the law for trying to ban free speech, plus ive seen people getting fired for saying inapropiate things. The massive cultural movement on the left has its roots in sociology. and Im actually a left leaning liberal - just not anything close to what liberal means in the US.

Biology, not so much, it is more of Culture vs Racism.

You know that biological racism is a pseudoscience, right? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

I'm not sure I'm following, please elaborate.

No, but racist pseudosciences are.

I only know of In-group bias.

I think CC is just putting race as a basis of comparison here. Sure all poor classes have trouble accumulating wealth, but look at it in this perspective: there are more middle-class white Americans than there are middle-class black Americans.

Also median is a bit loaded, wealth follows a log distribution, and it's possible if not easy to have a zero or negative wealth. How many times higher is $20 than $0?

Kalsonic yes and this type of marxist group thinking is racist towards whites and detrimental to individualism

Are you suggesting that the culmination of structural racism from slavery, to laws prohibiting reading, Jim Crow, segregation, misallocation of resources and no access to learning institutions etc etc didn't place ppl of a certain race into a certain class?? Thus making it a racial issue at its core

cary2k5 Those WERE racial issues. and yes we are saying its not a racial issue anymore.