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The need for a redefinition of “racism”

Obaidul Karim Khan
3 min readJul 29, 2019

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Racism has become a catch-all term, but I am confused over what it really means.

Would it be a racist act to speak the truth about a group of people? Should it be punishable to propose a good hypothesis which says negative things about a group of people of similar background?

I am from Denmark. I give a couple of examples of what I have experienced in Denmark.

One very controversial politician named Rasmus Paludan has recently got 14 14-days prison sentence from the Danish Highcourt for racism. That incident was covered by international news media.

The reason he was sentenced because he said in a Youtube video that, “most black people in South Africa” have low IQ under 70. the Danish party leader implies the South African governing party ANC, is incapable of governing South Africa due to low intelligence.

No scientific research has yet established that races have anything to with intelligence. There is no genetic reason that makes white people more intelligent than black people.

But there are a number of ongoing researches to find the connection between intelligence and races. Some researchers are working with the hypothesis that white people are more intelligent than colored people.

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Obaidul Karim Khan
Obaidul Karim Khan

Written by Obaidul Karim Khan

Founder and owner of webshop isports.dk . Hobby writer. I write about sex, business, motivation, movies etc. Top writer on Quora

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