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Is race real?
    #21980896 - 07/22/15 04:27 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Can race be used as a legitimate biological classification? I find it strange that human population groups were geographically separate for 10s of thousands of years and the only thing that supposedly changed was skin, bones, and facial features. Are measured differences in behaviour and IQ explained by genes or by social conditions?


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Re: Is race real? [Re: White Beard]
    #21980964 - 07/22/15 04:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I'm going to say I really don't know, and I do not personally sanction what I am about to post, and have no comment on it whatsoever.  Just reporting some data that I found when participating in the recent Why white supremacy? thread.


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There was actually a Through the Wormhole very much along the lines of your comments, OC.

Found this:

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Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Is There A Superior Race?

Season 3, episode 2

Originally broadcast on the Discovery Channel, June 6, 2012

Beginning at 23:07 "There are differences between racial and ethnic groups on the average in IQ. The average whites IQs are fairly set at 100. Blacks in the United States and in many other western countries average 85. Hispanics the average would be about 80. Native Americans around that level. And then Japanese and Chinese Americans above the white average. And then Ashkenazic Jews probably around 110, 115." - Linda Gottfredson, sociologist, University of Delaware





Also found, during my brief search, a rather remarkable jpeg, on which I have absolutely no comment, either:


IQ and the Wealth of Nations





Not really sure what to make of all this, White Beard.  Thought it would be interesting to share, though.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #21981105 - 07/22/15 05:11 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Yeah I've been wondering this a lot myself. I find it hard to believe beings as complex as human beings would only change skin color over hundreds of thousands of years when kept in differing environments.

I think Jews and East Asia top the IQ charts. Whites, in my opinion, are more socially cohesive and generally graceful, though many of them are also high on the IQ charts. I'm worried about Africa, where the average IQ is something like 75. Jung thought they were also predisposed to violence and cruelty.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: White Beard]
    #21981211 - 07/22/15 05:31 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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White Beard said:
Can race be used as a legitimate biological classification? I find it strange that human population groups were geographically separate for 10s of thousands of years and the only thing that supposedly changed was skin, bones, and facial features. Are measured differences in behaviour and IQ explained by genes or by social conditions?




Of course there are differences beyond "skin, bones, and facial features".  It's not politically correct to talk about them today, even biologists are careful to say the differences are subtle but do exist.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: qman]
    #21982056 - 07/22/15 09:10 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

If evolution is at play, ancestral generic lines with history in skyscraper tribes, would assume to conform in a sense to the collective objectivity on a cellular and behavioural/psychological level. :shrug:


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Re: Is race real? [Re: qman]
    #21982067 - 07/22/15 09:13 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Skin tone and facial features aren't the only thing different between races.  Black people naturally have a lower white cell count then white people and also get sickle cell anemia something white people can't.  Black people are genetically predisposed to heart disease more so then white people.  Race defiantly exists.  The closer your ancestors were to the equator the darker your skin becomes.  Different geographical regions have different environments and if isolated long enough people will evolve to adapt to such conditions.  It's okay to point out differences between people, no its not always derogatory, it's just a matter of fact.

Saying race doesn't exist is like saying short people and tall people don't exist.  If there was wars over talls and shorts I would understand the sensitivity but at the same time it's silly to question if height variation is "real."


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Re: Is race real? [Re: White Beard]
    #21985758 - 07/23/15 03:38 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Yes, races are real, in the same way as arbitrarily defined shades of grey are real. But race doesn't mean what most people think it means, so biologists prefer to not talk about the subject. For example, having black skin doesn't define a race in any biological sense. And as another example, in my part of the world muslims are viewed as a separate race for political reasons, despite the fact that everyone knows that being a muslim is a religious category, having nothing to do with biological taxonomies.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #21986643 - 07/23/15 06:43 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Black people naturally have a lower white cell count then white people and also get sickle cell anemia something white people can't.  Black people are genetically predisposed to heart disease more so then white people.  It's okay to point out differences between people, no its not always derogatory, it's just a matter of fact.

Saying race doesn't exist is like saying short people and tall people don't exist.  If there was wars over talls and shorts I would understand the sensitivity but at the same time it's silly to question if height variation is "real."




Your take makes sense. Couple of things I'd point out though. Now I am biracial but very few American blacks are "pure African". My white cell count is never low and if anything sometimes high. The problem with heart disease in the black community, I'd argue, is due to diet. My dad had heart disease, diabetes and other problems directly related to diet. I have never had those problems but I don't eat those typical ,what I'd call, slave foods. Remember, Kunta Kinte was a muslim who went from never eating pig to having to make due with pig scraps. I was also married into a family that ate all of that slave shit. I would tell them that soul food did not have to be slave food.
 
About cycle cell. As you said, living closer to the equator results in darker skin. It also means living around Malaria. I've heard(micro biology class) that malaria may account for the death of 10% of everybody that has ever lived. Cycle cell is a genetic defence against malaria. So yeah, people with darker skin are more likely to have cycle cell but I'm just clarifying that it is because of having lived near equator and not because of the color of skin.

Also, shout out to Cleveland. That is where I grew up but I'm currently living in columbus. I'd kill for some real pizza. Food down here sucks.

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Re: Is race real? [Re: White Beard]
    #21986759 - 07/23/15 07:10 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Can race be used as a legitimate biological classification?




That is different than being "real".  Tell me, what makes a biological classification "legitimate" in general?  Maybe "useful" is a more appropriate word.  If the question is Can race be used as a useful biological classification?, then I would say yes.  I find that people who deny the usefulness of race often just substitute a different phrase for the same concept (like "population group") because they are simply uncomfortable with the word "race" and its associations.  (basically, they engage in a form of newspeak because they are consumed with white guilt)


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Re: Is race real? [Re: DieCommie]
    #21987061 - 07/23/15 08:10 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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race often just substitute a different phrase for the same concept (like "population group") because they are simply uncomfortable with the word "race" and its associations.  (basically, they engage in a form of newspeak because they are consumed with white guilt)




You made sense at first. But. Race implies the difference is because of skin color. It's not.

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Oh, and "newspeak"...lol.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: spock]
    #21987136 - 07/23/15 08:24 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I used to go to school in columbus.  I'm down there quite a bit. :cheers:  Now that we live in a global society and people can easily travel there is more and more gene mixing and creating people who aren't really defined as a race.  A white person is still a white person and an east asian person is still and east asian person though:shrug:  I would imagine race would become even harder to define in the future assuming people aren't isolated from one another as less and less "pure breds" (for lack of a better term) are born.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #21988262 - 07/24/15 01:41 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

I think because of population explosion there are too many in each population of race to lead to one disappearing. There's more of every race than ever.

It's not exactly good news though. We're going to have to cull that, or else we're ALL going off the deep end. :justdontknow:

This world needs a plan, and less dumb fucks in power.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: circastes]
    #21990939 - 07/24/15 03:46 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Even if it's true that white people have higher IQs in general than Black people, and Asians have a higher IQ than white people, the differences in IQ within any of those groups vary so much that it makes no sense to conclude anything about any particular black person, white, or asian person. 

Add to this that IQ is (I would speculate) more a product of nurture than nature.  And even if it is genetics, again there is plenty of variation within any one race. 

Also, we know that skin color evolved due to exposure to the sun.  There is no reason to think that this alone would determine intelligence. 

Even if we come to the conclusion that one race is generally more intelligent than another (which I don't accept in the first place), why stop there? Surely we could pinpoint specific blood lines or family trees that have generally higher, or lower IQs.

And then the question arises - what would be the point of this?  So for these reasons, it seems pointless - whether true or not - to say that one entire race is more intelligent than another.

But yes, race is real.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: clam_dude]
    #21991443 - 07/24/15 05:36 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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And then the question arises - what would be the point of this?  So for these reasons, it seems pointless - whether true or not - to say that one entire race is more intelligent than another.




I like this.  The notion that one race is smarter than another is only important if you judge a person's value and worth based on their intelligence.  That is a ridiculous thing to do.  Dumb people and smart people are each still people and each should be entitled to the same basic human rights we decide to grant.  Once you no longer devalue somebody based on low intelligence you no longer implicitly devalue a race based on their low intelligence.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: White Beard]
    #21991608 - 07/24/15 06:09 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Race is a judgement based on human conceptualization.

Biologically, we are built from DNA. There is no "race gene" only genes for various traits which some people assemble together and draw (always flawed) racial lines.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: xFrockx]
    #21991617 - 07/24/15 06:11 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Also this thread belongs in THE racial discussion thread, where race has been debunked, repeatedly, without valid rebuttal, by yours truly.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: White Beard] * 1
    #21992408 - 07/24/15 08:40 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

For purposes of studying population genetics, no.  Racial categories as we know them do not map neatly onto genetic variation.  We tend, for example to think of white people as one race and black people as another.  Yet there is more genetic diversity among those we would label "black" than among all other populations combined (just as the "out of Africa" theory predicts).

Race is, as is often said, a social construct.  However, this confuses a lot of people because they think "social construct" equals "make-believe."  The category of "race" picks out a loose set of phenotypes, clustered together by broadly defined geographic markers.  It is further complicated by prevailing social attitudes.  There was a time in American history when Irish people weren't considered white.  Same with Italians and Eastern Europeans.  They essentially attained whiteness by assimilation into the white mainstream.

Regarding the IQ thing, there has been some very interesting research into the effects of poverty on cognitive development.  There is definitely an inherited component to intelligence, but there is good reason to believe this inheritance is not so much genetic as epigenetic.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: Silversoul] * 1
    #22000477 - 07/26/15 03:49 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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We tend, for example to think of white people as one race and black people as another.  Yet there is more genetic diversity among those we would label "black" than among all other populations combined (just as the "out of Africa" theory predicts).




That's a very course classification. There are many white races. E.g. Slavic, Germanic, Latin, Hellenic, etc. And then these can be subdivided. E.g. Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, etc. are all Slavic. If Africa has more genetic diversity then that means there are just more African races then anywhere else. I've heard that argument multiple times to try and discredit race but I don't see how it matters.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: xFrockx]
    #22001474 - 07/26/15 07:31 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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There is no "race gene"




is there a "species gene"?


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Re: Is race real? [Re: White Beard]
    #22002517 - 07/27/15 12:24 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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White Beard said:
Can race be used as a legitimate biological classification? I find it strange that human population groups were geographically separate for 10s of thousands of years and the only thing that supposedly changed was skin, bones, and facial features. Are measured differences in behaviour and IQ explained by genes or by social conditions?




I remember when learning in sociology, about race to be specific, the definition I got specifically stated that there is no real basis in biology.  "A group that perceives itself and is perceived by others as having distinct physical traits.  Race is culturally based and is a social construction.  'Colors.'"  Then ethnicity is the same definition but with cultural traits replacing physical traits.  I dunno how I feel about that definition lol, but from a sociological POV that's what it is.

I think the "issue" arises defining race because even though most people can usually fit into a certain race, race still can't have perfect, exact borders between one race and the next.  It also serves to pigeonhole and stereotype people, etc.

I'd say the measured differences in behavior and IQ are affected by both genes and social conditions.  Think of immigrants.  In the USA people come from all over the world, and sure it takes them some time but eventually they can learn to do most of the basic things in order to function in society that everyone else can.  They might be a different race than most, but they can have a kid and that kid will likely behave much like other kids their age; in just one generation they've assimilated.

I often do wonder how we would classify different "races" of people in a biological sense.  We aren't different species or subspecies now right?  Does that mean we can still be different "breeds" as someone else kind of mentioned in this thread?

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Re: Is race real? [Re: White Beard]
    #22005282 - 07/27/15 04:05 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

"is there a "species gene"? "

No. In fact, species with similar enough DNA can produce offspring, in some cases, even fertile offspring, for example, polar bears and grizzlies. Species is the outcome of taxonomy, DNA is what makes animals what they are, and each single one is unique.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: xFrockx]
    #22005326 - 07/27/15 04:12 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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xFrockx said:
"is there a "species gene"? "

No. In fact, species with similar enough DNA can produce offspring, in some cases, even fertile offspring, for example, polar bears and grizzlies. Species is the outcome of taxonomy, DNA is what makes animals what they are, and each single one is unique.




That is true, but it doesn't negate the usefulness of species classification in biology.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: extreme]
    #22005458 - 07/27/15 04:46 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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I often do wonder how we would classify different "races" of people in a biological sense.  We aren't different species or subspecies now right?  Does that mean we can still be different "breeds" as someone else kind of mentioned in this thread?





That's sort of how I suppose one might go about analogizing it.  Compare it to dogs.  All the morphologically and tempermentally different breeds are really the same species:  canis familiaris.  So would it not make sense to extrapolate this to humans, and consider the differently environmentally shaped races as different breeds of homo sapiens?  This would naturally suggest that the different "breeds" would have, on some level, varying characteristics, even though they all belong to the same species.  Is this not possible?


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Re: Is race real? [Re: White Beard]
    #22006186 - 07/27/15 06:37 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Words can be useful if the distinctions are false, not arguing that. The question is about whether race exists.

Are racial classifications useful? Not to me.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22006219 - 07/27/15 06:41 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Like how pit bulls are ferocious?


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Re: Is race real? [Re: xFrockx]
    #22006255 - 07/27/15 06:49 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Well, for example, Border Collies are the same species as Chihuahuas, and their temperaments, behavior, personalities, aptitudes etc. are all markedly different.  I'm not going to draw any human parallels, as it would probably embroil me, but can there not be a similar analog among humans, albeit possibly not quite as pronounced?  Or is this too taboo to even entertain at this point?


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Re: Is race real? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22006786 - 07/27/15 08:41 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

It is simpleminded(not saying you are) comparison. Genetic diversity among blacks is greater than whites. To make assumptions based on skin color is simple, it is easy, it is wrong. Add culture. What, are we really just going to do this. Drunk, dirty, violent Irish(my great grand mother was born in Ireland). Greasy fuckin Italians always beating their women. Shifty and prone to organized crime involving prostitution and gambling. Lazy fucking blacks always looking for a hand out. Damn Jews. long fuckin nose demons. How long could I go on with this simple minded shit. Why does this community even have so many threads about this dumb shit? The few that keep(not OP but utfse) this philosophy alive. Talking like it is an intellectual question. It isn't. Sorry. End rant. Sensitive much? Not much. Not many people of color here so yeah, I'm gonna represent.

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Re: Is race real? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22006930 - 07/27/15 09:14 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Or is this too taboo to even entertain at this point?




I think that is precisely why we can't (or really we just don't) have an honest discussion about it.  I believe we can only grow as a species, as a whole, if we can just be honest about ourselves and our behaviors and all that.  Well, that's just my two cents, I really do believe that and hold it as an ideal, but to say being honest about ourselves as a whole will actually work is another story.  I'm not sure the world is ready... "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" *JN voice*

But I digress :crazy: I could keep going but I think it would be only a little off topic.  Yes only a little, but a little indeed.

Kinda shows how personally we take things eh?  We have no problem classifying different dog breeds, so what is the harm in doing that for humans?  No dog breed is inherently bad; and the same goes for humans (except the blacks) IT'S A JOKE I HAVE A DARK SENSE OF HUMOR Alright but seriously -_- then again I suppose it is worth asking - what good would it be to divide races up, or give them credibility in the same way of dog breeds?

I forgot if it's been asked yet, it probably has, but whether or not race is real, if we treat is as real, the best question may be, is it useful??  I think it has its obvious pros and cons... possibly more cons though, but that's on us :shrug:




@ Spock - damn, we're not trying to offend anyone, especially in this forum.  Race discussions in the pub might as well just be, I dunno, useless, not that this discussion in this forum is anything more than just a friendly discussion itself.  Keep in mind this IS the science minded subforum, and that all the stereotypes you just mentioned aren't really taken as seriously here (if you know what I mean).  The pros/cons I ended my last paragraph with - an obvious con would be stereotyping.

I don't think anyone here is trying to break things down in this thread to stereotyping, and especially anything negative about other people.  Take it easy man :hug:


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Re: Is race real? [Re: extreme]
    #22007047 - 07/27/15 09:41 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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@ Spock - damn, we're not trying to offend anyone, especially in this forum.  Race discussions in the pub might as well just be, I dunno, useless, not that this discussion in this forum is anything more than just a friendly discussion itself.  Keep in mind this IS the science minded subforum, and that all the stereotypes you just mentioned aren't really taken as seriously here (if you know what I mean).  The pros/cons I ended my last paragraph with - an obvious con would be stereotyping.

I don't think anyone here is trying to break things down in this thread to stereotyping, and especially anything negative about other people.  Take it easy man :hug:



Thanks, really. I've had a couple of drinks tonight and kind knew not to hit submit. Racism and discrimination are real in the U.S. and it gets tired. It wears on the spirit. The dog comparison though. Who's the pit bull and who's the chihuahua? Now I'm joking.
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Re: Is race real? [Re: spock]
    #22007140 - 07/27/15 10:05 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Of course :heart:

I normally wouldn't concern myself with a thread like this (like my Pub example - I leave the hot topic issues alone there cuz many people don't take them seriously like they should) but in PSP nobody is attacking other people or groups... only ideas.

Which also does mean you have the right to say what you just said too; it's great since we all have a voice and can freely express our thoughts and opinions.  No question racism and discrimination are still huge problems in the USA (and really anywhere in the world to some degree) another topic we could branch off from this one might be why do we discriminate, and is it "natural?" and stuff like that.  Again I'm not saying good or bad, just objective type of questions.

In my first paragraph in my previous post I was mentioning how being honest with ourselves as a society, I think, is a good thing and what we need to do in order to progress.  Your reaction kind of makes me want to reiterate that.  Running from problems usually never solves them, but it does get tiring, haha.  It's good to have civil discussions like this.  The civil rights movement sure did a hell of a lot at changing some of the more institutional racial issues, among others.


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Re: Is race real? [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #22007797 - 07/28/15 01:55 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Is this about revealing truth? Is it a perennial questions? Or is it "science"? Clearly it's not anything new, as if we didn't have the knowledge to reflect on this in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The idea of lifting up the hood on taboos and political correctness is attractive in itself, but I think if you get beyond that it doesn't matter much whether there are objective lines to draw about race. How would they be considered significant?

It would have to be considered relavent to something in some sense, and if we are not talking about politics or reactionary impressions, we can be certain that people only talk about the existence of race, to express some herd instinct. Knowledge - whatever it is - is expressed such pragmatic utility.

Consider the possibility that the reason people don't admit to thinking this way is not because it is outrageous, and creates polarity, but because it is dull and banal.

The argument against racism as banality would be that even if it has any objective basis (truth); it would be besides any point, if it is not significantly important. For instance, it is possible to see that noble qualities which belong to the individual, as much as the whole of the human species (including its groups) are in relation much more novel and significant than what is found in particular groups.

So again if politics are thrown aside, it would seem reasonable to say that in any circumstance where someone would consider race significant, it would have to be found in what they choose to see, or something based on perspective.

I not arguing that this would manifest something, as values and way of thinking, even though it would do that. What I mean is that wherever there is a choice to vest in herd instinct, there is at the same time the possibility to recognize one's fellow individual human, and in that there is what we choose. Race is what we choose to see in that true binary sense.

The philosopher Heraclitus wrote that the world is found in strife and union of opposites. That could mean many things, to this discussion but what I would single out for the sake of argument is this. The pack animal and the individual, are like sides of a coin; to see one is to look away from the other. Some things are just like that, and that's just the way they are.

You probably do not talk about the cells of your body in their uniqueness or special importance outside of how they are generally maintaining the collection and diversity of what you are. Neither are your lungs more special than your heart, nor your heart more special than your brain, even though they have describable uniqueness.

Every description of truth, is found in a perspective. Some truths, more than others.


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    #22008905 - 07/28/15 10:38 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Border collies and chihuahuas are individually different, I've never met two that acted totally the same. Been around plenty of both.


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    #22008912 - 07/28/15 10:39 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Also, why the fuck does an "honest discussion" about race have to include accepting race?

Here's my honesty, race is an unfounded concept, and people who refuse to examine it enough to witness that are fucking morons.


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    #22008940 - 07/28/15 10:48 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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Border collies and chihuahuas are individually different, I've never met two that acted totally the same. Been around plenty of both.




"are individually different"

So what? That doesn't change the fact that different breeds (races) exist.


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    #22009464 - 07/28/15 12:42 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

Patients with sickle cell disease have a mutation in a gene on chromosome 11 that codes for the beta subunit of the hemoglobin protein. As a result, hemoglobin molecules don't form properly, causing red blood cells to be rigid and have a concave shape.

There are genetic markers for race.  Defining what a race is is the hard part.  Race is only a concept when you have a large groups of people.


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    #22009799 - 07/28/15 01:50 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

"So what? That doesn't change the fact that different breeds (races) exist."

Taxonomy is useful but is not a true dividing line as per DNA.


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    #22009807 - 07/28/15 01:51 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

There are genetic markers. Period. Genes exist.

Race is a description.


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    #22013355 - 07/29/15 05:20 AM (8 years, 6 months ago)

The black white supremacist president of America Barack Hussein Elijah Muhammad Obama recently attempted to convince Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to give homosexuals a break. The Kenyan establishment informed Obama that oppression of LBGT folks is a non-issue and that Obama should shove his faggot white supremacy up his ass.


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    #22015481 - 07/29/15 03:04 PM (8 years, 6 months ago)

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There are genetic markers. Period. Genes exist.

Race is a description.



I agree.  I don't define race as a sub-species.  I define race as a set of physical traits in a group of people common to an isolated geographical region over a period of time.  I wouldn't bet the farm on that definition it's just what I came up with off the top of my head.


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    #22021067 - 07/30/15 05:34 PM (8 years, 5 months ago)

You sound racist right now...  :youshouldtapthat:


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