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Re: Spam QueryArne G Carlsten (agc@PINE.CSE.NAU.EDU)Mon, 24 Oct 1994 14:53:20 -0700
From: agc To: "Sherwin P. Hicks" <V935CF54%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>, Multiple recipients of list ANTHRO-L <ANTHRO-L@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> Subject: Re: Hicks' bad day Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 11:49:14 -0700 Well, just off the top of my cranky under-caffinated head: The Turks and the Greeks/Balkan Slavs The Persians and the Greeks The Turks/Azeris and the Armenians The North Africans involved in the trade of European slaves The Japanese and the Ainu The Japanese and European civilians in Asia during WW II The Angolans and Mozambiqueans and the ethnic Portuguese post-independence The Zairians (ex-Congolese) and the European residents in the 1960s The Chinese and the Tocharians (OK, we don't know how much melanin they had, but as speakers of an Indo-European language there's a very strong possibility that they were relatively light skinned) (The Huns and Mongols have already been noted). Of course, the Persians were fellow Indo-European-language speakers, but they were presented as having darker skins than the Greeks... Which brings up the question: what exactly constitutes a sufficient "delta-melanin"? How are we going to measure it? Can I change groups by getting a tan? What about albinism and melanism? Is a "racially African" albino a racist? Is the guilt expunged from a "racially European" melanist? Even if we accept, for the sake of argument, the contention that the oppressed can not be racist, Mr Hicks has made racist statements. In the arena of this listservice, where race _is not_ apparent and where ideas can be freely debated, he has made rude and abusive statements that have sought to oppress those who disagree with him. Instead of arguing the merits or lack thereof of his position, he has threatened physical violence. Arne Carlsten Northern Arizona University
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