Re: BELL CURVE CRITIC EXPOSED?
S. LaBonne (labonnes@csc.albany.edu)
3 Feb 1995 19:25:36 GMT
In article <cas.430.000BA06A@ops1.bwi.wec.com>,
Bob Casanova <cas@ops1.bwi.wec.com> wrote:
>
>>Your tone (especially in the rest of your post, which I have deleted)
>>belies your feigned objectivity- you clearly have an emotional
>>attachment to the idea of race. And I think you need to support your
>>arguments by telling us just what you feel is so valuable about
>>this concept. Never mind the stale rhetoric about "the truth";
>>there are always choices to be made about the categories we use to
>>help us understand reality. What's so great about the category "race"?
>
>Why not ask the US gov't, which made race the basis of a significant amount of
>legislation?
Can you quote the post in which I defended the government's system of
"racial" classification? Hint: You won't find one, because I don't
support it. So, why address this question to me?
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Steve LaBonne *********************** (labonnes@csc.albany.edu)
"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never." - Wallace Stevens
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