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By the same token, there are hordes of Americans who affect a belief that there are no races, and think any attempt to apply Darwinism to human nature is the qu
by touleier 10y ago
By the same token, there are hordes of Americans who affect a belief that there are no races, and think any attempt to apply Darwinism to human nature is the quintessence of evil. Liberal Creationists.
- woofyman 10y agoRace is a social construct. Edit: I'm 50% Ashkenazi, we are prone to Tay-Sachs disease, caused by a genetic mutation. Does that make me a member of a separate race.
- touleier 10y agoScience is a "social construct". As is anything else we talk about. Try telling someone with sickle-cell anemia that race is just a social construct.
- RandomInteger4 10y agohttp://www.hematology.org/Patients/Anemia/Sickle-Cell-Trait.aspx#a2 http://www.hematology.org/Patients/Anemia/Sickle-Cell-Trait....
- touleier 10y agoYes, you are therefore a member of a well-defined breeding population (deme) and that membership gives us useful information immediately. Not only do you have a greater chance of getting certain diseases, your group also has higher intelligence, with a mean almost a standard deviation higher than gentiles. If race was arbitrary it would not give us predictive validity of that kind.