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It's not clear to me if people in this thread are differentiating between "certain categories of humans have specific genetic vulnerabilities" and "we're going
by b112 2y ago
It's not clear to me if people in this thread are differentiating between "certain categories of humans have specific genetic vulnerabilities" and "we're going to be racist without logical or researched cause".
It actually hurts people to not take into account their genetic background, an example is sickle cell anemia, which originates primarily in black people, who have a family tree from Africa.
Why? Well, even though it causes severe issues, it also protects from malaria parasites! There was an evolutionary derived pressure to spread this in that population group. And, during covid this caused additional problems for those with sickle cell. It also highlighted how Italians, most specifically those in Sicily have a strong likelihood of having sickle cell, primarily due to the endless, centuries long Roman occupation of Africa.
Women and men are physically different, and have different issues to account for (osteoporosis a great example here). Men often have too much iron, where as women too little. Treating everyone the same would mean not treating anyone correctly.
So, yes.. there are racial and sexual differences to take into account during studies, and medical treatments. As with everything, the true way to behave is often neither extreme.
No one should be mistreated during treatment, and treatments should not be racist... while understanding that racism isn't "different genetic groups of humans are predispositioned for certain conditions".
- mandmandam 2y agoNo one is saying that all people are genetically the same. No one is arguing that sayig "different genetic groups of humans are predispositioned for certain conditions"is racist, or that medical treatment needs to ignore biological differences. What is being claimed by OP is that since atrocities were also inflicted on white people during unethical medical experiments such as MK ULTRA, withholding known treatment from a specific racial group in Tuskegee without their consent can't be called racism (which is so absurd that maybe that's where you got confused?). Hope that clears things up for you.