Tell that to a geneticist.
Posted on 06/25/2015 8:16:41 AM PDT by Zakeet
So she lied. She portrayed herself as being something she's not, in order to serve a political cause. Is that really so terrible?
There are gays who hide their sexual orientation in order to get ahead in the Republican Party.
There are nonbelievers who get married in church just to please their parents.
It's even been rumored that some people doctor their own photos on dating sites.
Where's all the outrage about that?
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We ought to start by remembering that race is a social and political concept, not a biological one. There is far more genetic variation within racial groups than between them. So breaking down the myths around what constitutes "blackness" or "whiteness" is actually a good thing.
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Did Jesse actually say that? Sounds good but never a source cited. He could not have been that stupid or that honest to say such a thing.
He may have said it but I would like to see where and when.
The Left AND LeftistS (democrats) ARE a lie...
They invented the KKK, Segregation, the word NIGGAR...
Lynching, White Only, Jim Crow, Affirmative action...
Black face, and Skin Heads, Hate Jews as a christian organization.. when Jesus was a Jew..
And thats just the start of what Democrats ARE and Ain’t.. theres more much more..
If you don't think so then you are more craven than Dolezal.
Yes. It was a construct to divide and label and separate and force people into a “box”—particularly the Blacks (Bell Curve) so their concepts of self (emotions) can be manipulated and controlled by elites/Marxists.
Until the Marxists Sodomites took charge of our Institutions, the “melting pot” and “unity” was stressed——until “multiculturalism” and “relativism” was forced onto the minds of little children by late 60s. (To separate-—make children see others as “other”—different—separate so they will be less able to think of them as human/same).
Gender Theory is also an irrational Marxist construct to destroy Reason and Logic——create an artificial Reality for their NWO-—Utopia—where Reason and Natural Law (all natural instincts) have to be destroyed in women and men——all maternal instincts (why girls are conditioned to kill their own genetic offspring, hate males, and hate God’s Design of their bodies). It is all planned and designed into current curricula and literature (all culture).
Remove the Laws of Nature and you remove Nature’s God-—the Designer. Natural Law Theory created the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment-—and Modern Science and the USA-——Right Reason according to Natural Law-—Just Law which is a Christian (Individualism) concept-—uniqueness in ALL human beings.
Without the ability to understand Laws of Nature (which children will be unable to do if raised in an artificial environment devoid of a mother and father), there is no Common Sense. Look up Feral children in Bulgaria—They set up a system to destroy ALL which makes people human-—all you have to do is destroy the concept of the nurture of a biological mother. Homosexual “marriage”—the oxymoron—is about removing biological parents——buying and selling of human beings-—and about destroying Reason/Logic in children-—conditioning for “utopia” and “happy slavery”.
Marxism is the total dehumanization of people——remove ALL identity—even male/female from the minds of children.
Look at Europe....they already have schools which do not allow the label of boy or girl in preschools. It is to eliminate Reason/Mind (understanding Nature) destroy male/female unity, so Marxists can shape their artificial environment like in Brave New World-—where children are revolted by the idea of “Mother”).
Except if your are born white, then you’re just a racist anyway no matter what.
“We ought to start by remembering that race is a social and political concept, not a biological one.”
Well, that explains why the different races look just alike.
Well in that case I shall now identify elephants as fruit flies.
The citation ...from the left’s paper of record
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/12/opinion/in-america-a-sea-change-on-crime.html
Thank you for the citation.
They would not deend her if she was pretending to be black, and was a successful Christian conservative advcating non-liberal policies.
Tell that to a geneticist.
She’s just like Bill Clinton. Lying can be good for you.
Youre most welcome. I’m making a new banner...with the quote and the citation included.
I have to wonder if Revrunt sharpton ever commented on that particular statement!
“Is all that is needed to be in a protected group and to claim the benefits thereof a state of mind?”
>>In a new world where feelings trump facts, the answer is yes.
Let’s take this line of thought a bit further. For the moment, the Leftists are saying that self-identification is all that’s needed. Rachel is black. Lizzy Warren is an Indian. Bruce is Caitlyn. We have always been at war with East Asia, etc.
But, at some point, this becomes financially overburdensome and some formal method of determination. Ultimitately, that means political identity courts, which make the determination subjective, but subject to the validation of a political court. From there, it’s but another logical step to connections, perhaps in the form of Party Membership, being the ultimate trump card.
The author is correct. Race is a social construct. It is not biological.
DNA reveals where some of our ancestors lived, e.g. specific continents. It does not reveal our national identity, or native language, or ethnic features generally.
DNA identifies sex. Sex is biological. The concept of gender is a little different. Gender is really a linguistic tool. But it has been applied to behavior associated with male or female identification. For example, culturally we associate dresses with females. (And kilts may seem odd from outside a culture where they are seen as appropriately masculine.) There is nothing intrinsically feminine about dresses versus pants.
What I find bizarre is that this media revelation about Rachel Dolezal has been reported by right-leaning news outlets as if race is a biological reality. It has been reported on by left-wing media more correctly as a social construct.
Have conservatives now embraced the concept of biological race?
Racial’s ..er RACHEL’s Friday Personna??
Some people think that their similar looking neighbors in the country on their border belong to a different race than them. If you get on some race-conscious websites, a number of the people on those websites believe that.
The facts are different humans across the globe will behave differently under similar circumstances. If that is the definition of race, then we have number of races.
I cannot reconcile the points given as to possibilities. Biological brothers and sisters can and often do differ on beliefs and actions. Does such signify a difference in ‘race’? I can ‘see’ Dolezal’s take on her ‘race’, but I don’t understand why such defines ‘race’.
To say that race is only a social construct and not biological presupposes a definition of race that I do not think is shared by average people in ordinary circumstances. I think that by using the term “race”, people are mainly referring to appearance and ancestry. Skin color and texture, hair color, eye color, facial characteristics (lips, nose, etc...)... are all determined by biology. It is true enough that there are Indians darker than any African-American and all kinds of other such situations that can cast into doubt the usefulness of dividing up a population by race. But to say that biology is not the driving factor in a person’s appearance, what we commonly understand as “race” and that this biology is not passed down from generation to generation does not make a lot of sense.
All that said, the important thing should be that we all human beings equal before the Almighty. But trying convincing a liberal of that.
I grew up in city with virtually no "minorities." A city of 50,000 that was almost all white...one black family that I didn't know existed because they lived on the opposite end of town. There was a mix of English, German, Norwegian, Irish, Bohemian, and a few other ethnicities considered white. I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in the behavior of any of the children and adults of those "white" groups.
So are European descendants one "race"? I don't know. I'm not a big believer in race as many "race realists" believe. But I am aware there are large differences in group behavior.
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