Re: You want racism? REAL racism?

In article
<1bcf9840-94fb-414b-8d08-02788248d9b7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tom Enright <freddy_hayek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 28, 12:58 pm, The BorgMan <m...@xxxxxx> wrote:
"Edward M. Kennedy" <e...@xxxxxxx> wrote
innews:g6kppi$clk$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

People who approve of Affrimative Action shouldn't claim
there's no such thing as race, because otherwise their
dumbass logic would implode.

There is no biological scientific thing such as race. There certainly is
a social construct called "race" that is often based off skin color and
loosely tied to ethnicity... and that construct has been used as a means
of dehumanizing and subjugating quite a number of people throughtout
history.

So when an medical examiner judges that the bones he finds are of a
"white" person he is making, in fact, a statement about that person's
ethnicity?

Why can science distinguish between the bones of a "black" person and
a "white" person but not between a Frenchmen and an Italian?

Science can distinguish the bones of a secretary from the bones of a
non-secretary.

Different groups of people have different skeletal structures. So what?

Race, in the terms that it's usually used to draw distinctions
(intelligence and so on) is a useless social construct. If you want to
use the word to describe phenotypic differences between different groups
of humans, you're allowed to do so, but it isn't accurate.

--
Trev
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