From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 10:47:38 MDT
lcorbin@tsoft.com (Lee Corbin) writes:
>As Chris put it so well,
>
>> Any studies done in the US that try to correlate
>> anything with Race are nonsense
>
>and I'm sure that the same is true with respect to all the
>higher animals.
>
>It boggles the mind how the uninformed masses have, all
>these years, believed that races of people and breeds of
>dogs actually exist. Think of the embarrassment at the
>NAACP, the KKK, and all the civil rights marchers when
>they discover the truth!
If you had carefully read the web page that Chris pointed us to, you
would have seen clear signs that you are attacking a straw man. That page
qualifies the claim that racial classifications are nonsense by saying:
Please understand that I do not claim that the concept of ``race'' is
totally meaningless.
and endorses the classification of some people as members of minority
and majority races for the purposes of detecting discrimination.
I suspect that the word "nonsense" is being used in some sophisticated
sense that you and I have not yet grasped. Until we can understand how
this claim of nonsense manages to invalidate some uses of classification
but leaves others unaffected, we shouldn't claim to understand Chris'
claim well enough to determine what is wrong with it.
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