millions of years of evolution..there HAS GOT TO BE genetic variations and differences in races...otherwise everyone would look exactly the same...sans cultural differences
people that get pissed off at the notion r suffering from low self esteem...meh.. now that is a problem...a social one..not a genetic one
I'd like to see how the evolution part would fit with the hardcore christian zealots who reject evolution and also support racism to certain degree.
Genetic differences are obvious and irrefutable, males are different than females, blacks have certain features that are different than asians, native americans are different than whites.
Most people love to stereotype, however, they love positive stereotypes but hate the negative stereotypes. They think just because it's "positive" it's not "racism" or "stereotyping". It is still is, a negative stereotype marks a group down whereas a positive stereotype puts a group above others. Most people agree that black people as a race are good basketball players and good runners and no one raises a racism issue there. But at the same type most people would be up in arms if someone mentioned that for example black people are genetically programmed to have lower IQ than other races.
The main issue most people agree is that laws and the state should not discriminate, either positively or negatively, towards any group (race, gender, religion, etc). Does this actually apply? Not quite, there is affirmative action that discriminates against whites, there are military rules that prohibit women from serving in Special Forces, military regulations that have lower physical benchmarks for women, several quotas etc. On the other hand I don't know how comfortable people would be with the idea of a state (or society) that has different rules depending on what group(s) someone belongs to (race, gender, religion etc).