I'm a bit perplexed as to why there aren't more genecists and biologists being consulted and invited on news and talk shows to articulate the science on the question of race. Race is merely a cultural category. Genetically, the differences are insignificant or irrelevant. This has been known for decades. I was only able to catch a short …
I'm a bit perplexed as to why there aren't more genecists and biologists being consulted and invited on news and talk shows to articulate the science on the question of race. Race is merely a cultural category. Genetically, the differences are insignificant or irrelevant. This has been known for decades. I was only able to catch a short portion of today's show, but the discussion, which included something about a movie about Jewish identity or something caused me to pull a book off the shelf. The book is "What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee", by Jonathan Marks, Univ. of CA Press, 2002. I won't try to summarize the message of the book here except to say all this ludicrous discrimination and fear on the far right (and that does include about half of white Americans or more) is meaningless nonsense derived from abject ignorance. I will quote from the book. "What we get from all this is that the quest for human nature is itself an illusion, the result of an antiquated way of thinking about humans scientifically --with culture as a veneer overlying nature." (page 178). "...racial problems are not racial." "...a deflection away from the real issues." (page 94-95).
I'm a bit perplexed as to why there aren't more genecists and biologists being consulted and invited on news and talk shows to articulate the science on the question of race. Race is merely a cultural category. Genetically, the differences are insignificant or irrelevant. This has been known for decades. I was only able to catch a short portion of today's show, but the discussion, which included something about a movie about Jewish identity or something caused me to pull a book off the shelf. The book is "What it Means to be 98% Chimpanzee", by Jonathan Marks, Univ. of CA Press, 2002. I won't try to summarize the message of the book here except to say all this ludicrous discrimination and fear on the far right (and that does include about half of white Americans or more) is meaningless nonsense derived from abject ignorance. I will quote from the book. "What we get from all this is that the quest for human nature is itself an illusion, the result of an antiquated way of thinking about humans scientifically --with culture as a veneer overlying nature." (page 178). "...racial problems are not racial." "...a deflection away from the real issues." (page 94-95).