system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What are the primary arguments against race realism and the theories of racial intelligence based off it?

As the title suggests, I am interested in the primary arguments against race realism and the theories of racial intelligence based off it. I do not buy into these ideas, but I don't feel educated enough on either of the topics to shut it down when I hear them being supported. If anyone has reading recommendations that explain these arguments, please share them! Thanks.
gpt
I think a simple response that works is this: we know the genes responsible for racial phenotypes (largely skin color and bome structure) are not directly tied to any kind of mental properties. Thus, any correlation between the possession of particular racial phenotypes and intelligence are not the result of underlying realities, just the byproducts of environment over long time periods. These correlations can be decoupled leaving the apparant phenotypes in place.