Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin

Washington Post ^ | December 16, 2005 | Rick Weiss

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the ping. Alas, things are too far gone for me to deploy the ping list.

[Vaquero]

Evolution Ping.


PS(I still think europeans have some Neanderthal genetics and that eventually it will be borne out)

[PatrickHenry]

Thread's all wuked up, but I'll ping "the few" ...

[cgbg]

If these scientists want to be politically correct they should burn their findings, burn down their laboratory, and then burn up themselves and everyone they told about this.

Talking about race is evil evil evil! ;-)

[cgbg]

Soon the Washington Post will join the human extinction movement.

Humanity is humanity's greatest source of strife according to many scientists. :-)

[Junior]

Talk about misreading. The author was talking about "race" not "white skin."

[MSSC6644]

Great juxtaposition. My immediate thought: this is what happens when man tries to play God.

[Reactionary]

"Talk about misreading. The author was talking about "race" not "white skin."

Is that so? Well, perhaps you will show me where the word "race" is mentioned. It isn't.

[SlowBoat407]

According to the Washington Post white skin is one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.

I think it was just a poorly worded way of saying that differentiation of humans by color is one of the sources of strife, not white skin per se.

We really need to save the outrage for the times when it is truly deserved. This is a non-starter.

[SlowBoat407]

What surprises me is that the white-skinned mutant wasn't killed or left behind. OTOH, what if the white skin at the time was seen as a mark of some kind of spiritual favor, and was actually nurtured and protected by the community? What if everyone in the tribe wanted to have offspring with the "the glowing one"? Then, when all the little light-skinned babies started running around, they got scared and turned them all out, and they formed their own tribe?

See? I can play too!

[sono]

Scientists have isolated a compound which replicates the effect of this gene.

[Arrowhead1952]

As a blonde, blue-eyed, light-skinned girl, I always wondered what the hell I was selected for for living on this planet.

It goes to show that you are an asset to FR.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

So. On top of everything else, now I find out that I'm a mutant. Part of a whole race of blankety-blank X-Men.

Cool.

[Galveston Grl]

I did not say they only hate Christian white people. They hate anyone who is not of their political bent but they hate White Christians - they target White Christians - the most with active discrimination and hate doctrines.

When they had the KKK assortment of majority preferences, they hated whites who opposed their racial doctrines and system of racial preferences. But they targeted their hate doctrines and divison schemes centrally at Black Americans. The Democrats' hatred of Condi can be compared to this. She is off the race reservation just as whites who opposed segregation (Republicans) were off the race reservation.

[furball4paws]

The man is a Caucasian, albeit dark. It's not the same as a black African.

[CarrotAndStick]

Perhaps.

[B Knotts]

Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.

This article is ridiculously racist.

[orionblamblam]

> what if the white skin at the time was seen as a mark of some kind of spiritual favor, and was actually nurtured and protected by the community?

Would hardly be surprising. While offspring that are clearly defective are often killed, exposed, left to die, sent down the river or whatever in primitive societies, individuals who are not physically defective but who are clearly *different* are oftentimes treasured. Schizophrenics and other mental disorders are often seen as being touched by the gods, for good or ill. So if a baby was born of a different color, it's possible that some spiritual advantage could be assumed.

[King Moonracer]

Some times its hard to tell the Koran from a D&D Monster manual.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

LOL!!!!!!!!