A subversive idea - the end of Race

The American Thinker ^ | 08/22/2017 | John Conlin

[John Conlin]

As a scientific fact, the black race doesn’t exist. Neither does the white or Asian. There is no race gene.

In the year 2000, when the scientists at the National Institutes of Health announced that they had put together a draft of the entire sequence of the human genome, the researchers unanimously declared that there is only one race -- the human race.

[John Conlin]

Hi Freepers, just tossing this new one out there for your feedback. We will never end the stupidity of racism until we rid ourselves of the failed "science" it is based upon.

[day10]

It will never end as long as there is a political or economic advantage to be gained by harping on race.

[jdsteel]

So the science is settled! Anyone who doesn't agree is a denier!😄

[Paladin2]

Race has been reduced to skin color these days.

[MrEdd]

How is something which has been my position since the late seventies new?

[I want the USA back]

Reality doesn’t matter. It’s something that the left uses to divide people, turn them against each other and create hostile warring groups that they can control for political purposes.

[fatez]

Whenever I am asked the question what race I am, I always write in / answer “human”.

[JudyinCanada]

I’ve always said that I’m not a racist, but I certainly am a culturist. I have no problem condemning some cultures.

[grania]

Gosh, I don't know. There may not be race depending on how one defines it, but there is ancestry that's so programmed that a $100 DNA tells us quite specifically who are ancestors are. We do have an inherited identity that's inescapable.

I know what people refer to when they say "race" or "ethnicity" or "culture" or "religion" or "nationality". Erase all of that and you erase a lot of people's identities. Makes them easier to control.

[lgjhn23]

Truth. But it doesn’t matter.
One of the symptoms of the chronic mental disease brought on by “liberalism” is the inability to deal with reality and/or truth. They have not reasoning skills whatsoever. They are literally the “walking dead”.
So what you have there is true, but don’t expect the insane to understand or accept it. They can’t...they’re not mentally capable.

[Yashcheritsiy]

This is really dumb. Of course “race” exists. It is quite scientifically verifiable that there are portions of humanity which display certain sets of genotypic and phenotypic traits which they generally share with each other but not with outgroups.

If this were not so, forensic science could not make determinations about the race of those who “contribute” forensic evidence in criminal cases, nor could DNA profiling outfits like 23andMe do what they do.

The claim that “there’s no such thing as race” is literally concentrated stupidity in a can.

The real issue comes down to what do you do *about* races. Supremacy or peaceful coexistence, etc. The question is not one that can be answered by the pseudoscience of aracialism, but rather through the moral question of “how do we treat other people?”

[House Atreides]

A subversive idea — the end of hair color.

There is no blonde hair; there is no black hair.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Well, duh. Who CARES where we came from millions of years ago and what our color and features are now?! We’re all bleeping human!!

[alexander_busek]

A subversive idea - the end of Race

Yeah, and by this same specious logic, there is no Pacific Ocean, no Atlantic Ocean, no Southern Sea, no Indian Ocean, etc. - There is only "The Ocean" - because there are no exact, razor-sharp demarcations, and because the seawater moves freely between the various different so-called "bodies" of water (there's only one body of water!).

Come to think of it, there are no dog breeds, either! There are only - Dogs!

That despite the fact that there are many, many different parameters (salinity, temperature, currents, flora and fauna, etc.) in which the various seas differ, and despite the fact that they can, broadly, be geographically delineated from each other - and despite the fact that it is useful to differentiate between them.

Regards,

[avenir]

Back it UP, buddy! There has been “some” progress, but THERE IS STILL MUCH WORK TO BE DONE. (Says every race baiter ever.)

[House Atreides]

Party pooper! There who go spouting common sense and clear thinking...you’re no fun.

[Architect of Avalon]

Genetics exist and those genetics manifest in readily identifiable and indisputable characteristics which can then be grouped, accurately, based on sets of people who share key characteristics.

[Jack Black]

A profoundly liberal idea, which I'm a little surprised to see being floated here at Free Republic.

There is not be a single "race gene" but there are groups of them that can determine race and ethnicity with complete accuracy. Blacks simply do not have the same genetics as whites who don't have the same genetics as Asians who don't have the same genetics as Aboriginal Australians, etc.

In fact "23 and me" has made an entire business helping people understand their genetic background.

Talking about groups makes some people uncomfortable, but it' doesn't change that fact that genetic related groups share common traits. Increasingly medical procedures are being tailored based on DNA, for instance.

Inherent in the "only one race" theory is the fallacy of "The Blank Slate", which holds that all people are blank at birth and culture is imprinted on them through up-bringing and education. Under this theory race is of zero import.

However we now know that this theory is false, though still widely held in popular culture. It turns out that many traits are largely heritable - that is they are based on genetics. Not just skin color or height but things like intelligence, and proclivity towards violence.

But even if race is only 60% heritable, and the rest constructed, so what? Black culture, for example, is quite powerful and is not interested in assimilating. In fact it seems that each decade of my life black culture has become more separate from white, intentionally. As a youngster we all listened to the same music, played on AM stations that freely mixed the Supremes, Temptations and Stevie Wonder with Steppenwolf, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Today if you turn on XM radio's rap station not only will hear music that few white artists have any part in creating, it will be delivered by DJ's speaking a patios-stylized English that is unintelligible to many English speakers.

You may not believe in race, but race believes in you.

[rightwingcrazy]

patios-stylized

patois?

[DannyTN]

Fine, there is no race, but your color is wrong.