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Haim
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Re: Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in
classrooms?
Posted:
Feb 10, 2012 8:27 PM
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Kirby Urner Posted: Feb 10, 2012 7:15 PM
>> Never mind them. Let's you and I not dumb it
>> down. So, you agree there are human races, yes?
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>No silly. A racist is someone who believes in races,
>either unconsciously or, after surveying the
>literature, finds it a useful concept. I've mostly
>exorcised it from my thinking and take pity on those
>still in thralldom.
I see. So, how do you feel about the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition" which published the study on caffeine, and about the researchers who studied caffeine and its effects on female hormones? They studied the effects of caffeine on women---by race!
(Seems vaguely sexist to me. I mean, how dare caffeine affect women differently from men. Just saying.)
You may also know that other, more important drugs, work differently on different races of people. Heart medication, for example. Seems I have heard that certain kinds of diabetes drugs work differently, in important ways, on African people than on European people. Drugs can be so politically incorrect!
But, what's a doctor to do? I mean, if you give a white man's drug to a black man, you might kill the black man. So, is it racist to kill the black man or is it racist not to? Gosh! I never dreamed I would ask such a question, but life is so complicated these days.
>On the other hand, I will certainly refer to "the black
>man over there" or "the woman with the red hat" (I
>recognize and appreciate genetic / fashion diversity),
>but I will not cop to thinking hard-coding any "races"
>into the mix is worth doing. That gives us "pure forms"
>and "mixes" and a lot of poppycock we don't need.
Please tell me, again: what is the difference between "appreciating genetic diversity" and acknowledging race?
>I'd like all active voter roles to be purged of stupid
>race identification boxes such that all future
>elections are officially blind to the concept.
You skipped a step. Probably, you will want to first purge the census of all references to race. Ah, but this is a political issue while caffeine, heart medicines, diabetes medicines, etc., are biological issues. If you are saying that race should have no political existence, then I am with you, four-square.
Haim
Shovel ready? What shovel ready?
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