|
|
Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?
Bob Whitaker (bwhit@conterra.com)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:35:54 -0500
Dene Bebbington wrote:
>
> Bob Whitaker <bwhit@conterra.com> wrote:
> >Ron Kephart wrote:
> >>
> >> frank@clark.net () wrote:
> >>
> >> > Now if you'll just tell me what you mean by "meaningful," you'll have
> >> > answered the original question, "What are the race deniers denying?"
> >>
> >> By "biologically meaningful" I meant genetically determined traits
> >> which cluster together within a given population and which do not
> >> occur in other populations. Let's say that all humans with very light-brown
> >> skin, blue eyes, and straight blonde hair also had type O blood, and
> >> they all happened to live on Iceland. Let's say further that they
> >> had lived there for maybe 10,000 years with no gene flow between them
> >> and any other human population. Maybe you could make a good case for
> >> this being a "race"; what do the real biologists think?
> >
> >
> > Good God, man, don't be such an intellectual slave!
>
> Actually Bob, if you'd have put your brain into gear before typing, you
> would have noticed that he was actually asking a question.
>
> > Under French and other European law, if a person merely says races
> >are really different, they face five years in prison and a sixty
> >thousand dollar fine. This is enforced.
>
> Huh. And the evidence for this assertion is?
>
> Lets see, Christopher Brand author of "The g factor" says races are
> innately different, as does Richard Lynn, they both live in Europe - so
> have they been locked up for 5 years and fined 60,000 dollars (or maybe
> Ecu's would be more appropriate for the non-US centric readers of this
> newsgroup!).
>
> [snipped]
>
> --
> Dene Bebbington
>
> "... after all, who'd notice another madman around here?!"
And at the same time, all the authorities agree with you, but now
they don't, right?
Good old good boy Doublethink!
|