RE: Definition of Racism (without rent-a-riot)
From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 23:00:28 MDT
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>Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:14:16 -0700 (PDT)
> Party of Citizens <citizens@vcn.bc.ca> extropians@extropy.org RE: Definition of Racism (without rent-a-riot)Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>How about simply observing scientifically verifiable race differences? Is
>that racism?
>POC
>
"Jimmy the Greek" Snyder probably thought his opinion on physical differences in athletes was scientifically based (he even gave his reason - forced plantation eugenics), and the baseball guy who said black "didn't have the prerequisites" (intelligence) to manage sports teams - a claim also made by bigoted football coaches as to why they didn't permit blacks to try out for quarterback - most likely thought that there was a test for that sort of thing. Of course, blacks have now successfully managed many teams, now that they've been given the chance, just as black quarterbacks have played well now that they're allowed to try (Doug Williams won a Super Bowl), which proves that anecdotes and preconceptions are a poor substitute for genuine science. It is not racist to observe that a greater percentage of blacks have the genes for sickle cell anemia, or that a greater percentage of Semites (both Jews and Palestinians) have the genes for Tay-Sachs syndrome, or that a greater perc!
entage of caucasians possess the genes for hemophilia, than in the general population, or that differing racial groups possess differing complexional spectra, eye color spectra, and hair texture spectra. These distinctions have good hard science behind them.
>
>On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Lee Corbin wrote:
>
>> I submit the following very simple definition of a *racist*:
>>
>> Racist:
>> One who is antagonistic towards someone else based on that
>> person's race alone.
>>
>> Lee Corbin
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