Posted on 03/24/2018 3:14:29 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
In 1942, the anthropologist Ashley Montagu published “Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race,” an influential book that argued that race is a social concept with no genetic basis. A classic example often cited is the inconsistent definition of “black.” In the United States, historically, a person is “black” if he has any sub-Saharan African ancestry; in Brazil, a person is not “black” if he is known to have any European ancestry. If “black” refers to different people in different contexts, how can there be any genetic basis to it?...
...But over the years this consensus has morphed, seemingly without questioning, into an orthodoxy. The orthodoxy maintains that the average genetic differences among people grouped according to today’s racial terms are so trivial when it comes to any meaningful biological traits that those differences can be ignored.
...Groundbreaking advances in DNA sequencing technology have been made over the last two decades. These advances enable us to measure with exquisite accuracy what fraction of an individual’s genetic ancestry traces back to, say, West Africa 500 years ago — before the mixing in the Americas of the West African and European gene pools that were almost completely isolated for the last 70,000 years. With the help of these tools, we are learning that while race may be a social construct, differences in genetic ancestry that happen to correlate to many of today’s racial constructs are real.
Recent genetic studies have demonstrated differences across populations not just in the genetic determinants of simple traits such as skin color, but also in more complex traits like bodily dimensions and susceptibility to diseases. For example, we now know that genetic factors help explain why northern Europeans are taller on average than southern Europeans, why multiple sclerosis is more common in European-Americans than in African-Americans...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
We are getting a lot of left-wingers here. They believe they are conservative because of the position they take not the principal of it. Some guy was ranting that he had a right to use a debit card to buy guns because he had a right to spend money. He thought the government should enforce his rights. That is left wing philosophy and so is the thinking that facebooks restrictions violate the 1st. There is no right to be heard and no right to be published.
Well then, eliminate race-based privileges, affirmative action, free college, race-based promotion and freedom from prosecution for hate crimes.
I read the article. The author had the academic cred to say what Jimmy The Greek did not. Until academics are kept to the same standards as Joe SixPack, the gulf between Elites and serfs will grow wider as the that between the rich and poor.
I never figured out this race issue. It is a culture thing for me. Is it wrong for a person to dislike another person’s culture? Is it wrong to dislike another’s music or any other form of expression or are we just supposed to accept it?
No. You are wrong. “Publicly traded” does not mean the company is a “public” company - as in owned by all of us.
It ONLY means the PRIVATELY OWNED SHARES in the company are traded on a PUBLIC exchange. The OWNERS are the stock holders, by their PRIVATELY held shares, NOT “the public”.
The management of such a company has one fiduciary responsibility, to the stock holders and not you and me and the rest of “the public”. Their ability to decide policy is no different than for a single proprietor company or a compnay constructed of partners instead of shareholders. Its not up for a “democratic vote” with “the public”.
Hate the musical sin (rap), or other form of expression (mime) but love the sinner.
Race...is a social construct and idiotic...
A man is a man...
His vice and virtue distinguish him.
yes..... you are precisely correct.
I hope you don't honestly think that this is a true statement and are just blowing smoke.
libtards will still keep on evading reality to be able to keep playing the race card and the oppressed card in order to punish the achievers and to get the unearned, the undeserved, and something for nothing
You will come to find your post very embarrassing. A publicly traded company is still a private sector company made up of shareholders. I guess there could be some gray areas where government pension funds invest in shares of such companies though.
Amazing the trash you picked up dragging a free-speech diatribe through the globalist trailer park.
Except it isn't, as is obvious to all except the most servile of bootlickers.
“5Any honest anthropologist will tell you that, scientifically speaking, there is no such thing as race.”
And gravity is a “social construct” (whatever the hell that is).
Yeah, I didn’t think you’d be able to give a rational answer to Nifster.
Ad hominem attacks are so much easier anyway.
“Almost 2000 years ago, the Apostle Paul, nee Saul of Tarsus, said to the men of the Aeropagus, “God hath made from one blood all nations of men.”
As recorded in Acts chapter 17.”
I don’t recall using the bible as a text book in biology class.
If you seriously believe a publicly traded company doesn't have to be responsive to its customers, the public and the FedGov, you're sadly mistaken.
Mark KissMyAss Zuckerberg can be replaced by the Fakebook BoD at any time which would change the direction of the company. That's part of being a publicly traded company. (Not saying the Fakebook BoD would do that, just saying they can.)
in every other language I know, race and breed are the same thing. Why does this matter? Because asking someones race isn’t offensive, just as inquiring what race your dog is, would also not be offensive.
‘whites’ represent a mixture of four ancient populations t
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis
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