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The word 'caucasian' should be banned say Cambridge and UCL scientists because it is 'associated with a racist classification of humans'
Daily Mail ^ | 6/25/2021 | auren Lewis For Mailonline

Posted on 06/25/2021 10:41:39 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

The word 'caucasian' should be banned because it is 'associated with a racist classification of humans', according to five Cambridge and UCL scientists.

Researchers said scientists should only use the term when absolutely unavoidable but refrain from 'usage where possible'.

Authors of the article titled 'The language of race, ethnicity, and ancestry in human genetic research' said the term Caucasian was an 'old term associated with racist and pseudo-scientific classifications of humans'.

Caucasian, they wrote, is 'an 18th-century term invented to denote pale-skinned northern and western Europeans, or in other archaic connotations a wider range of people based on skull measurements, including west Asians, south Asians, north Africans and Europeans.'

The paper, published on the pre-print sever arxiv, added: 'The language commonly used in human genetics can inadvertently pose problems for multiple reasons.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; caucasian; racist
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To: Right Wing Vegan

So even being a caucasian is racist...word salad...


21 posted on 06/25/2021 11:25:10 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Other than for medical doctors and possibly dentists, we should ban the title “Doctor” for any other person. The agendanista IDIOTS awarding themselves PhD titles are undeserving of the honor of Doctor in their titles.

They can title their “degrees” Indoctrinee 3rd Class, Indoctrinee 2nd Class and Indoctrinee 1st Class.


22 posted on 06/25/2021 11:36:03 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Right Wing Vegan

This talk is the stuff that leads to people being sent off to concentration camps. It is so out in the open.


23 posted on 06/25/2021 11:49:33 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: alexander_busek

Caucasian =/= Aryan

Aryan is a linguistic category, not a racial one.
There are lots of “caucasian” peoples whose native tongues are not Aryan. Basques, Finns, Hungarians, Lebanese, Syrians, Chechens, Circassians, etc.


24 posted on 06/25/2021 11:51:42 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: dainbramaged

According to the widely accepted classification of anthropologist Carlton S. Coon: “. . . human beings comprise one species divided by minor differences into five distinct races: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Congoid, Australoid and the nearly extinct Capoid of Africa. . . .”


25 posted on 06/25/2021 11:53:29 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: buwaya
Caucasian =/= Aryan

Als ob ich das nicht schon gewußt hätte!

Es nennt sich "Humor" bzw. "Sarkasmus".

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

26 posted on 06/26/2021 12:00:59 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

I can hear the drumbeat getting louder that we’re all going to be labeled “Citizens of the World”......without borders.


27 posted on 06/26/2021 12:09:15 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: dainbramaged

^^


28 posted on 06/26/2021 12:34:49 AM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: Right Wing Vegan; Paladin2

Caucasian is a reference to the geographic area that Germanic Europeans are understood to have originated from.


29 posted on 06/26/2021 1:14:01 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: alexander_busek

Aryan is an ethnic designation for a group of people who are effectively Latin European.


30 posted on 06/26/2021 1:16:02 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: alexander_busek

Didn’t need the sarc tag for me. I laughed out loud reading your comment. Was so obviously sarcasm. Sarcasm with sharp teeth.


31 posted on 06/26/2021 1:38:31 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: Paladin2

exactly. include indians(asian) as well. persians are actually the real aryans. so not about skin color.


32 posted on 06/26/2021 1:51:02 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: dainbramaged

and australan(south sea island) like the aborigines and southern indians


33 posted on 06/26/2021 1:52:13 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Tiger Woods - Caucasian Black Indian (Native American) Asian. Ca + bl + in + Asian = Cablinasian


34 posted on 06/26/2021 2:31:45 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Ban the word “scientist”, or redfine it as “quack.”


35 posted on 06/26/2021 2:32:52 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The Caucasus area is a region so old the Hittites referred to the peoples. It’s so broad, it’s considered the birthplace of european expansion

Get your foot off the neck of my culture, Cambridge


36 posted on 06/26/2021 2:35:49 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Last I checked caucasians were called white motherf#_$&s...


37 posted on 06/26/2021 2:46:58 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distribBluted right.)
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To: Richard Axtell

38 posted on 06/26/2021 2:58:09 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Cboldt

“Ban the word “scientist””

“scientist” always annoyed me at school.

I was young and in English Language class we would be taught “I before E except after C”. The next lesson would be General Science. Surely sceince would follow the rules I thought?

My cynicism & scepticism started at an early age.


39 posted on 06/26/2021 3:09:37 AM PDT by LordOddsocks
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To: realcleanguy
"Those same white professors should forfeit all their pay, benefits and retirement."

Well, it's only fair..

40 posted on 06/26/2021 3:11:49 AM PDT by unread (Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire)
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