You can't win with a racist. But I'm trying anyhow: Could I get a little help here?

[Max Blair]

Hi. I am mildly autistic. I don't really understand how the world works. I have this friend, also mildly autistic, who believes that the overwhelming weight of peer reviewed science, most evident by the work of the late Canadian JP Rushton, decisively proves that black people are, on the average, substantially less intelligent than white people. She believes that the reason for this has been proven by Rushton to be because they have smaller brains. Yeah, I know. You can't win with a racist. I know the smart thing to do is just unfriend her, walk away, cut my losses, and blah blah blah. But hell, I haven't made a new friend that's stuck in years. I don't like to give up. This is kind of a last ditch deal here.

What would you say to my friend?

Max,

Did you know that yeara ago, according to many, women were considered to be less intelligent than men because they had smaller brains, since most women tend to be smaller persons than most men.

Since there are some white men who are smaller than other white or black men, would this also imply that these smaller white men were less
intelligent than bigger black or white men?

Would your friend think that women were less intelligent than men just because they are smaller persons?

All peoples of all different sizes have the same intellectual capacities regardless of racial characteristics.

Adele

I've always considered that a pretty compelling argument. But she doesn't think so. Got any peer-reviewed love-links to maybe change her mind?