The New American Beauty (UCLA prof defines the new racism)

Elle Magazine ^ | 02/03 | Jeff Wise

[theFIRMbss]

There you go. The new
Nazis manifesto: Race
is still everything,

only instead of
pure blood being the great grail,
these folks want mixed blood.

But the root belief,
old Nazi versus the new,
remains inhuman --

They believe we are
our skin and bones. Not our minds,
not beliefs, values,

not character, not
our spirituality.
Just our skin and bones.

The Nazis lost. But
these Nazis have power and
respect. God help us.

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[kstewskis]

in this idiot's mind, mutts rule.

but no, you can't call it racism

/sarcasm

[per loin]

There was an interesting experiment done a while back in which computers were used to meld large numbers of faces into a single one. Researchers found that the larger the number of faces melded into the one, the more attractive that one was perceived to be by those viewing the face and comparing it to others.

[Dionysius]

The Nazi brand of Eugenics was championed in this country by one Margaret Sanger long before Hitler raised his ugly head. She, of course, founded Planned Parenthood and is one of the patron saints of the pro-abortion forces. Ironically, in a way, she is probably responsible far more deaths than the Fuhrer -- and for motives no less horrific.

[Jeff Chandler]

A lament which is repeated frequently on the left, and which I heard repeated yet again on NPR during the Lott affair, is that "we need to talk about race" because "nobody talks about it", when in fact that is almost all they talk about. Race, race, race, race, race.

It's not healthy to obsess over race.

[WFTR]

I'm not angry about all of this as you are, but I find his ideas distasteful. I don't think it's necessarily an attempt to resurrect Nazism or eugenics, but I agree with the criticism that we are wrong to think of people as nothing but mixtures of DNA. There likely is some health advantage to a well-mixed gene pool, but people have to live correctly to build a worthwhile society.

WFTR
Bill

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Not exactly a new idea, this guy has... It's called hybrid vigor.

[fourdeuce82d]

yeah- it's my unerstanding this is the case with dogs- purebreds for show, mutts for tempermant/health/longevity.

The reverse situation obtains in many Gulf states, where consanguinous marriages are common than they are here- resulting in an uptick in the number of birth defects.

[StriperSniper]

the larger the number of faces melded into the one, the more attractive that one was perceived to be

It averaged out the 'exagerated' features some individuals have. The resulting face would have to be more proportional and thus 'more attractive'. I'm sure the same would work within each individual race (at least to others of that race).

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Our neighborhood is entirely mixed race. No one is allowed into our gated community unless they can pass a DNA test proving they are of mixed racial parentage. No pure whiteys or darkeys are allowed. As for myself, I possess classic Greek features, but my skin color tends more towards the shades found among some of the natives of the Carribean.

Envious? You should be. We are quietly taking over.

[Jeff Chandler]

No one is allowed into our gated community unless they can pass a DNA test proving they are of mixed racial parentage.

 

I have some French blood. Does that count?

[Stefan Stackhouse]

The more we learn about the human genome, the more we are beginning to realize that at the genetic level, the differences between races are so trivial that the whole concept of "race" itself is now becoming extremely suspect. In reality, there is merely a continuum -- rather than cubbyholes -- of racial characteristics.

In contrast, the genetic and biological differences between males (of ANY race) and females (of any race) are incredibly profound -- far, far more profound than are the differences between any two males or any two females, regardless of race.

[martian_22]

This same theory was put forth in a '60s sci-fi story of the future "brave new world" eugenics.

To prevent war and get the strongest first gen hybrids, mixed marriages only were allowed and infants who displayed specific racial traits were incinerated.

Just old sci-fi....

[tallhappy]

Alice Walker has said, there will be “one race . . . that will call itself the American race.”

Walker siad that? I didn't know she had it in her to say such a sensible conservative thing.

This is the same as it was always in the US. It used to be, say, an Italian race marrying a Swedish race etc...

Almost everyone American is mixed race.

Having said that, the people who think and talk like this Phelan fellow are goofy and have strange ideas.

[Jeff Chandler]

...the genetic and biological differences between males ...and females ...are incredibly profound...

I'm here to tell ya!

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[visualops]

I think it's a bunch of crap, because mixing races and ethnicities doesn't necessarily produce darker skinned, wavy-haired people, yet with light eyes and other usually caucasian features that you see more often in magazines and music videos. I think it's actually rather pandering to the whole 'what's beautiful' myth perpetuated by Hollywood and advertisers. The idea of symmetry is intriguing, but this guy measured 99 students and based his theory on that? Seems pretty weak to me.
What mixing races and ethnicities does, is produce some interesting combinations of features, bone structure, and coloring. Among those combinations are ones that are currently fashionable. Whether this also creates strength is arguable, since you are also passing on potential weaknesses, such as susceptibility to certain diseases, allergies, etc.

[theFIRMbss]

>I'm not angry about all of this as you are, but I find his ideas distasteful. ...

To my eyes, it looks
like there are three bad things here.
Dehumanizing

suppositions from
materialist dogma,
that we "are" our genes.

Elaborations
of these to social theory
about mixed races.

And, possibly most
importantly, a fashion
magazine [!?] that's read

by many millions
of people around the globe
presenting this stuff

as if it is just
passing commentary on
"how to look sexy."

This is politics,
and the magazine's readers
are getting mind-screwed.

[Godebert]

" Almost everyone American is mixed race. "

Baloney.