RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events RIGHTEY WHITEY?! THE FALLACY OF "RACE"

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Debunking the Concept of 'Race'

[A]t Pennsylvania State University, where about 90 students took complex genetic screening tests that compared their samples with those of four regional groups . . . [m]any of these students thought of themselves as "100 percent" white or black or something else, but only a tiny fraction of them, as it turned out, actually fell into that category. Most learned instead that they shared genetic markers with people of different skin colors.

Ostensibly "black" subjects, for example, found that as much as half of their genetic material came from Europe, with some coming from Asia as well. One "white" student learned that 14 percent of his DNA came from Africa - and 6 percent from East Asia. The student told The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper, earlier this year: "When I got my results I was like, there's no way they were mine. I thought it was just an example of what the test was supposed to look like. Then I was like, Oh my God, that's me."

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rex said:
You do realize that writing something in all caps makes you look stupid.

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If that was the only thing he did that made him look stupid think we'd give him a pass

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Pariah said:
Why is this thread named after my custom title?

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the G-man said:
Sigh...

Anyone? Anyone want to field whomod's original point?

Anyone?

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PaulWellr said:

It's a very very interesting study especially seeing how most people tend to identify themselves based upon perceived race and color.

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Wednesday said:
Pariah will always be wrongy whitey

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Wednesday said:
No matter how much evidence we see to the contrary, I'll always be black, Pariah will always be wrongy whitey, and Jack Mehoff will forever be green.

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Stay gold, Pony Boy. Stay gold.

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Pariah said:

That wasn't very clever Wednesday.

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Wednesday said:
Pariah will always be wrongy whitey

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That wasn't very clever Wednesday.

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But it was sufficiently funny to merit a chuckle.

Chuckle.

When Brooklyn Assemb. Dov Hikind suggested this weekend that the NYPD use racial profiling to identify terrorists who might blow up the subways, the reaction was mostly predictable.

Many liberal leaders, including Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer, denounced the proposal as ineffective and un-American. Conservatives hailed his common sense.

But a handful of religious and political leaders acknowledged that Hikind, a Hasidic Jew, gave voice to sentiments shared by thousands of New Yorkers. And they suggested the old liberal-conservative divide about profiling was obsolete in an age when young men strapped bombs to their bodies and went out to wreak destruction on civilians.

"We have a right wing who tends to want to use power indiscriminately, and a left wing who considers any use of power bad," said Rabbi Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in Manhattan. "So the vast majority of us in the middle feel unsafe."

Kula called for a third way to talk about profiling -- an approach that he said must transcend the potential abuses of power inherent in Hikind's proposal, as well as the left's unwillingness to face new dangers.

"Can we imagine a conversation -- ideally led by Muslims themselves -- on a new category in a post-Sept. 11 world called 'ethical racial profiling'?" he asked.

Kula said he doesn't know what such a system might look like, but believes New York could lead the nation in putting together such a policy.

But many religious and political leaders yesterday flatly rejected Hikind's proposals to use Middle Eastern profiles as "inappropriate and irresponsible."

"First of all, the very idea that one can spot a Muslim by looking at them is ridiculous," said Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, leader of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem. "Muslims are of every ethnic group on earth. In the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, we saw attacks upon innocent people by ignorant bigots, who thought you could look at someone and tell their religion."

Leaders of the Straphangers Campaign said they had not even considered Hikind's proposal because they consider the newly instituted bag checks "a colossal waste of money," in the words of Neysa Pranger.

"The bottom line is they're going to have to put together a security strategy that includes a number of things -- chief among them, more bomb sniffing dogs, and having uniformed and undercover patrols," said Pranger, the group's coordinator.

Ferrer, Democratic candidate for mayor, dismissed Hikind's idea out of hand.

"Racial profiling is against the law in New York City and it's a law I helped draft," Ferrer said "There are better ways, and constitutional ways, to keep us safe."

In a brief statement, Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne called racial profiling "illegal, of doubtful effectiveness and against department policy."

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Poverty Lad said:

Stay gold, Pony Boy. Stay gold.

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Nice Outsiders quote, man!

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PaulWellr said:

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Debunking the Concept of 'Race'

[A]t Pennsylvania State University, where about 90 students took complex genetic screening tests that compared their samples with those of four regional groups . . . [m]any of these students thought of themselves as "100 percent" white or black or something else, but only a tiny fraction of them, as it turned out, actually fell into that category. Most learned instead that they shared genetic markers with people of different skin colors.

Ostensibly "black" subjects, for example, found that as much as half of their genetic material came from Europe, with some coming from Asia as well. One "white" student learned that 14 percent of his DNA came from Africa - and 6 percent from East Asia. The student told The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper, earlier this year: "When I got my results I was like, there's no way they were mine. I thought it was just an example of what the test was supposed to look like. Then I was like, Oh my God, that's me."

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Interesting.

Just keep shagging, foks. You're almost 100% "American".

It's a very very interesting study especially seeing how most people tend to identify themselves based upon perceived race and color.

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Poverty Lad said:
Thankee!

"Best. Movie. Ever."

Where else can you see a young Diane Lane in a cashmere sweater, and Ralph Macchio burnt extra crispy?!

2 THUMBS UP!

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Pariah said:
Tell me guys: Which one looks more like a terrorist to you?

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Wednesday said:

The book was better.

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But... but... Diane Lane! C'mon!

--Nah, you're right. That's just hormones talking. I still have my first edition copy packed away somewhere.

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Wednesday said:
I'd love to know your point.

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This does, of course, assume he has one. As normal, evil Liberals making assumptions about what people are trying to say!

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Pariah said:
Tell me guys: Which one looks more like a terrorist to you?

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I'd love to know your point.

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Pariah said:
Tell me guys: Which one looks more like a terrorist to you?

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Two of these four are terrorist bombers.

This man is an American born college professor. He believed that technology was bad for the world and mailed bombs to universities.

Nice North Carolina (red state) man. His religious beliefs compelled him to bomb an abortion clinic in 1997 and the Olympics in 1996.

Here is a dangerous black man (don't worry, Pariah. He can't hurt you). He's so crazy and deranged that he actually rejected his previously violent beliefs after a journey to Mecca.

Another dangerous black man. In the past he's used marijuana.

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Pariah said:
Tell me guys: Which one looks more like a terrorist to you?

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I'd love to know your point.

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Racial Profiling's a two way street. Not a static encouragement of prejudice or racism.

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r3x29yz4a said:
do you even know what it is? Racial profiling is specifically targetting one race because of a belief that members of the race are more likely to commit a crime.

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Pariah said:

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r3x29yz4a said:
do you even know what it is? Racial profiling is specifically targetting one race because of a belief that members of the race are more likely to commit a crime.

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Exactly. Except it's not a crime. It's the crime. A terrorist bombing occurs and a threat was sent in before hand by someone proclaiming Jihad. Who is "more likely" to be the cause for this? An American or a Arab?

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