New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
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New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
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Re: New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
#2If it's a fact, it's not racism. It's not personal. The fact that races diverged thousands of years ago suggest that they are genetically different through evolution. There's a lot to learn from genetic diversity rather than applying the racism badge to it every fucking time and ignoring it to pacify some over-sensitive idiots. This attitude is no better than witch hunts and mandatory religious laws.
The contents and tone of the article are awful and an affront to science and assume everything will result in Nazi eugenics programmes.
Re: New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
#3And then there is speciesism: http://i.word.com/idictionary/speciesism
Re: New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
#4"...spreading the belief that races exist and are different in terms of biology, behaviour and culture,..."
Wait, is this not generally accepted? (As in, not generally accepted that they are different).
Re: New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
#5"...spreading the belief that races exist and are different in terms of biology, behaviour and culture,..." Wait, is this not generally accepted? (As in, not generally accepted that they are different).
Only in the USA.
Re: New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
#6"the belief that people inherently have different abilities based on skin colour or ethnic background.". It certainly appears at present that this is largely true.
It's odd that on the one hand some people proclaim they are from a certain 'race'. On the other hand they don't want any characteristics of this 'race' to be drawn to anyone's attention because that's 'racism'. Meanwhile we get on with our lives and treat folk as we find them.
Re: New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
#7"...spreading the belief that races exist and are different in terms of biology, behaviour and culture,..." Wait, is this not generally accepted? (As in, not generally accepted that they are different).
Only in the USA.
Actually this is taught in anthropology ( at university ) in romania as scientific fact.
Re: New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
#8But she warned that science could be "misused" to propagate the belief that people inherently have different abilities
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based on skin colour or ethnic background
Is the issue the variability or the link to causality? Because surely there is variability. The other issues get into statistical considerations relating to interpreting the genome itself. The argument that there is no genetic basis of {race} seems highly flawed at face value. So the question still remains about the co-variance matrices between the two sets of variations. This is where there seems to be a fine line with respect to identifying the data; understandin the data; and drawing conclusions (right or wrong) from the data. But without doing any of that work, it seems highly presumptive to argue there is no information {in that data} per-se, and/or to completely disregard it (out of hand). None of this has anything to do as of yet with granting political or social priveledge to certain people or others.
Re: New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
#9"the belief that people inherently have different abilities based on skin colour or ethnic background.". It certainly appears at present that this is largely true. It's odd that on the one hand some people proclaim they are from a certain 'race'. On the other hand they don't want any characteristics of this 'race' to be drawn to anyone's attention because that's 'racism'. Meanwhile we get on with our lives and treat…
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Re: New forms of 'racism' arise in science research
#10"...spreading the belief that races exist and are different in terms of biology, behaviour and culture,..." Wait, is this not generally accepted? (As in, not generally accepted that they are different).
No; races are pseudoscience.