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Agree. I just submitted a thoughtful - and entertaining – article on this subject by computer scientist, Les Earnest. From the sixties onwards, he identified hi
by Anthony-G 3y ago
Agree. I just submitted a thoughtful - and entertaining – article on this subject by computer scientist, Les Earnest. From the sixties onwards, he identified himself as a mongrel rather than allow himself to be classified by any one meaningless and not-very scientific concept of “race”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38907226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38907226
> in 1966 I discovered that something very good had happened: the race question had disappeared from the security clearance form. In fact, this question disappeared from nearly all government forms then. I liked to think I helped that change along.
> I have argued that all historical and present racial and ethnic classification systems for individuals are nonsensical and so are the laws, court decisions, computer applications, and bureaucratic superstructures that have been built on top of them.