Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours

on 10/23/08 8:08 AM, Mark J. Reed at markjreed@GMAIL.COM wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Hanuman Zhang
> <zhang@...> wrote:
>> on 10/23/08 6:07 AM, Mark J. Reed at markjreed@GMAIL.COM wrote:
>>
>>> White-history.com?  That's a scary domain name...
>>
>> Esp'ly since that latest genetic science proves that the "white race" is
>> a myth,
>
> I thought that was sufficiently well-known not to warrant mention.  At
> the genetic level, most differences in "race" tend to disappear - but
> that's been known for quite some time, so calling it the "latest
> genetic science" is, while accurate, a tad odd.  ("According to the
> latest physical science, the speed of light in a vacuum is constant
> for all observers!")
    Latest as in "not yet fully accepted" or vanguard or whatever LOL

> The genetic invisibility of race doesn't keep people from using
> racially-derived cultural monikers, however, and it's widely
> acceptable to do so. It's only certain such words that serve as bright
> blinking warning beacons, shouting to the world that "Here there be
> racism" - and "White" is definitely one of those.
    Bleedin' "folk taxonomy"...  and Conventional WisDUMB... It irks the
f*ck outta me that this 19th C. b.s. is still prevalent in the 21st!


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