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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    This theory, like most, have both good points and bad. IMO, it's mostly bad because it's racist. Ending racism by adding more racism is like bombing for peace or fucking for virginity. It's a dead end and only seeks to prolong the pain.


    https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory
    Critical race theory (CRT), the view that the law and legal institutions are inherently racist and that race itself, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is a socially constructed concept that is used by white people to further their economic and political interests at the expense of people of colour. According to critical race theory (CRT), racial inequality emerges from the social, economic, and legal differences that white people create between “races” to maintain elite white interests in labour markets and politics, giving rise to poverty and criminality in many minority communities. The CRT movement officially organized itself in 1989, at the first annual Workshop on Critical Race Theory, though its intellectual origins go back much further, to the 1960s and ’70s.

    The ABA's views. It's very politically correct, but like Affirmative Action looks great on paper, how it actually works is counter-productive to eliminating racism. IMO, so does CRT: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/c...l-race-theory/
    I'm glad that I saw this thread. I'm taking Physical Anthropology 101 this semester.

    "Race" is an artificial human construction based in pre-Victorian science as a way to classify human beings just as earlier Renaissance scientists began to classify all other species. THAT was based on even earlier science... Linnaeus and Mendel's work.

    Scientifically there is no "race" in humankind other than we are classified as homo sapiens sapiens.

    Scientifically, all attempts to claim that human beings of one phenotype or another are inferior is incorrect.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I'm glad that I saw this thread. I'm taking Physical Anthropology 101 this semester.

    "Race" is an artificial human construction based in pre-Victorian science as a way to classify human beings just as earlier Renaissance scientists began to classify all other species. THAT was based on even earlier science... Linnaeus and Mendel's work.

    Scientifically there is no "race" in humankind other than we are classified as homo sapiens sapiens.

    Is this part of a degree or just for fun? Looks like a great class!

    Scientifically, all attempts to claim that human beings of one phenotype or another are inferior is incorrect.
    Agreed. The science of genetics has proved human beings are too diverse to be categorized into races or breeds.

    Are you taking the class towards a degree or just for fun? Looks like fun!
    God bless America and those who defend our Constitution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I'm glad that I saw this thread. I'm taking Physical Anthropology 101 this semester.

    "Race" is an artificial human construction based in pre-Victorian science as a way to classify human beings just as earlier Renaissance scientists began to classify all other species. THAT was based on even earlier science... Linnaeus and Mendel's work.

    Scientifically there is no "race" in humankind other than we are classified as homo sapiens sapiens.

    Scientifically, all attempts to claim that human beings of one phenotype or another are inferior is incorrect.
    This is probably a stupid question but how does that co-exist with CRT which says nothing is more important than a persons race and that is how they are to be seen and defined?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    This is probably a stupid question but how does that co-exist with CRT which says nothing is more important than a persons race and that is how they are to be seen and defined?
    Only tangentially since the most accurate thing about CRT is that "race" is a social construct like being an American or fucking Eurotrash.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    Agreed. The science of genetics has proved human beings are too diverse to be categorized into races or breeds.

    Are you taking the class towards a degree or just for fun? Looks like fun!
    It's part of my eventual degree.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    This is probably a stupid question but how does that co-exist with CRT which says nothing is more important than a persons race and that is how they are to be seen and defined?
    I have no idea what you refer to with "CRT." To me it's just Cathode Ray Tube. More info, please?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I have no idea what you refer to with "CRT." To me it's just Cathode Ray Tube. More info, please?
    Critical Race Theory

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    It's part of my eventual degree.
    Excellent. First or additional? What field?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    I'm glad that I saw this thread. I'm taking Physical Anthropology 101 this semester.

    "Race" is an artificial human construction based in pre-Victorian science as a way to classify human beings just as earlier Renaissance scientists began to classify all other species. THAT was based on even earlier science... Linnaeus and Mendel's work.

    Scientifically there is no "race" in humankind other than we are classified as homo sapiens sapiens.

    Scientifically, all attempts to claim that human beings of one phenotype or another are inferior is incorrect.
    ^ Check out Professor Owl! Nice work.

    Here are some factoids I learned in genetics class: humans are so inter-related that humanity as a whole has less genetic diversity than onion plants.

    This factoid and mitochondrial DNA results indicate we all are descended from a small group of homo sapiens originally living in Africa - perhaps as small as only a few hundred individuals. Making all of us distant cousins to each other.

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    CRT is no different from all the other scams running rampant. Someone wants free money. Thats it... in total....nothing more to it really. Its the old ..."IM A LOSER but if you give me money I wont be a loser anymore" thing. Cept it doesnt work. Never has. In a very short time the loser mentality will willingly and gleefully hand his money right back over to the winners of the world only to end up with nothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    ^ Check out Professor Owl! Nice work.

    Here are some factoids I learned in genetics class: humans are so inter-related that humanity as a whole has less genetic diversity than onion plants.

    This factoid and mitochondrial DNA results indicate we all are descended from a small group of homo sapiens originally living in Africa - perhaps as small as only a few hundred individuals. Making all of us distant cousins to each other.
    Isn't that cool? We've known for a while now that most of us of European/Asian ancestry have some Neanderthal genes. Some of us also have Denisovan genes, plus genes from a yet-to-be-identified other human species. They've been able to trace our lineage via mDNA all the way back to one individual female who lived in Africa, colloquially named "Mitochondrial Eve."
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    Well, so much for 'Reparations'. It's pretty obvious by our Scientists here, there is no 'race' and we're all identical.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    Excellent. First or additional? What field?
    Native American Studies/Anthropology.
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