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Why Do So Many Researchers Still Treat Race as a Scientific Concept?
Slate ^ | May 30, 2019 | Tim Requarth

Posted on 06/02/2019 12:09:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Kozak
"No race, no affirmative action, no quotas, no reparations. I’m in."

So am I. No more special treatment for anyone.

21 posted on 06/02/2019 12:40:27 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I actually clicked on the link embedded in this quote:

"Ethno-nationalists like Steve Bannon channel race science when alluding to the “naturally aggressive and violent” tendencies of black people. "

And guess what I found?

No such correlation. Here's the quote from Bannon: "There are, after all, in this world, some people who are naturally aggressive and violent."

"Some" people. Not "black" people.

And here's the context: he writing about a guy who pulled out a gun and aimed it as police officers, and ended up getting shot by said police officers. Maybe guys who point guns as police officers are, on an average, guys who are naturally more aggressive and violent?

An author who makes up insinuations about Bannon's alleged racism, based on this kind of quote, is not to be trusted in the field of facts.

Maybe she's just naturally so biased against conservatives that she can't even see it.

23 posted on 06/02/2019 12:41:45 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Let's keep the *sapiens* in *Home sapiens*.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Maybe they should investigate if their inability to acknowledge facts like the Bannon quote is due to some genetic component.


24 posted on 06/02/2019 12:47:00 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: House Atreides

Race = Human Biodiversity


25 posted on 06/02/2019 12:50:22 PM PDT by Trumpocrat (Lib Fairytale "All peoples have equal talent. Whites [ or Chinese etc] hold the others down.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
so the sickle cell is just prejudice then... is that it
26 posted on 06/02/2019 12:50:41 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Jim Noble

The difference lies in many generations of “nurture”, culture, and culling.


27 posted on 06/02/2019 12:55:31 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Sivad

And the worst amalgamation of politics and science?

Political Science. An oxymoron if ever there was.

Emphasize “moron”.

There are tribal differences in human beings. But there is only one race, the human race.

A breed of any species is not a separate species.


28 posted on 06/02/2019 12:59:30 PM PDT by alloysteel (The difference between real life and fiction? Fiction has to make sense and follow some logic.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why Do So Many Researchers Still Treat Race as a Scientific Concept?

Anybody? . . . ANYbody? . . . Bueller?

Because it is, and always has been. Within bird species, there are difference "races," and they are described that way. No pity-party CNN segment required.

Regional isolation of any creature that successfully reproduces is going to get more homogeneous with itself over many generations. Forty or more generations on, more of the individuals in the group are going to share more genes with each other than they will with members of the same species outside the isolated group.

But if you're a devout Lefty, you don't believe in genetics at all. Genetics makes it harder to lie. Just ask Lysenko.

29 posted on 06/02/2019 1:01:02 PM PDT by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: Jim Noble

All dogs identify as wolves.


30 posted on 06/02/2019 1:03:22 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Jazz people have the same problem.


31 posted on 06/02/2019 1:05:48 PM PDT by HIDEK6 ( God bless Donald Trump.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

My race? 50 yard dash, why?


32 posted on 06/02/2019 1:12:06 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#Dregs #DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe #BuildIt)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A room full of medical students and none of them can say what a haplogroup is? I don’t buy it.


33 posted on 06/02/2019 1:23:55 PM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Dealing with different groups of people is a problem in science because “race” really is a inaccurate and loaded term, and has the connotations and history of racism. Over the last 20 years, terms and concepts like “ethnicity” and “culture” are more common, as they are more accurate descriptions of a person or groups origins and behaviors. In the case of responding to medical drugs, a person’s culture determines what they eat and what pathogens they are exposed, which affects how they respond to different drugs.


34 posted on 06/02/2019 1:31:21 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: Bayan

It is said that on reading Darwin that Marx hammered off a not to Engels saying that he’d found a basis in natural science for their ideology.

Now, if true I will here say that Marx didn’t care one jot about the theory of evolution or natural selection BUT what Darwin offered was if there was natural selection there could be unnatural selection too: that Marx believed that through the tyranny of enforcing an ideology on people completely at odds with human nature that they could change human nature so at some point in the future they would have created a new sort of man-like being that could be a communist without being forced by the state.

And of course being far off in the future that meant there’d be plenty of time for men like Marx to rule with a fist of iron.

That’s one reason why I’ve long said that when these Leftwing Idiots talk about stateless communism they are clueless, indoctrinated Useful Idiots because the very nature of communism is to produce oppressive all powerful police states and it can produce nothing else.

So ... Lysenkoism ... think about this: as idiotic as a more socialist nature might seem if you think you can make socialistic men through your progroms then why can’t you change nature? Lysenkoism never fell far from the lunatic tree of Marxism and at its crunchy core was just taking the basic idea a little farther.

This is relevant because the sort of people that the Cultural Marxist shat out, which now dominate the Left, have so lost contact with nature that mere Lysenkoism would be passé to them. Lysenko was nuts ... but even he never said: hey y’all, let’s be gender fluid, let’s publicly celebrate all forms of sexuality, and let’s browbeat and shun people who are breeders because that will make us better socialists.

Even an evil over the top bastard like Stalin wouldn’t have been able to go along with Soviets exhibiting the insanity that now characterizes too much of the American Left ... but he’d have been ecstatic to see Americans or an American version of Lysenko behaving that way because the purpose of Cultural Marxism was not to produce a society that could last or people who would run a communist/socialist State but to produce people incapable of sustaining a culture, a nation and a civilization ... to produce people so debilitated in their understanding that they’d be cheering their new foreign Marxist masters even while their firing squad was lining up to kill them.


35 posted on 06/02/2019 1:36:34 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: bigbob

“I’m a ferocious killer! The perfect predator! Noooo ... no cuddles and tummy rubs.” — the cat


36 posted on 06/02/2019 1:39:10 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m sooooo glad our media is straightforward and unbiased. They would never, EVER lie to us! /sarc


37 posted on 06/02/2019 1:53:20 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Modern Democrat Party: America's largest hate group.)
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To: dead

Oh, I agree. It seems to me that leftists are the most race-obsessed people nowadays.


38 posted on 06/02/2019 1:54:04 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Modern Democrat Party: America's largest hate group.)
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To: Sacajaweau

There is no problem. Not that the race baiters don’t gin up problems or anything.


39 posted on 06/02/2019 1:55:05 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Modern Democrat Party: America's largest hate group.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When a black man and a black woman have a baby the baby is black.

When a white man and a white woman have a baby the baby is white.

This happens because "race" is a biological reality.

"Race" differences appear at the genetic level.

Even before "race" people spoke of ethnicity, ancestry, and origins of people which are early terms for "race".

The term "race" is something every people on earth have always been aware of they just used different names to describe it.

40 posted on 06/02/2019 1:59:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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