Flint
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| Quote | | But many, if not most, liberals do claim that the races are unclassifiable "abstractions". Of course, this claim doesn't even make sense on a Darwinian level: Erasmus himself would have predicted a branching tree for human subgroups, because a nested hierarchy results from a common ancestor splitting into multiple descendents. But liberals, who worship Comrade Darwin and racial categories when it's time to wreck Christianity or empty the white man's wallet, suddenly become creationists on the Race Issue. |
Not atypically, this accusation is partially correct, and partially misleading. Yes, there are genetic differences among people. Yes, some of these genetic differences are associated with clear enough visual cues (and geographical ancestry) to serve as useful differentiators between genetically distinct groups. Sometimes, this is very helpful (for example in making some medical diagnoses or therapies). I doubt even a "Ghost liberal" (not a real creature, but a simplistic enough caricature for us to grasp) would claim that, by and large black people aren't visibly blacker than white people.
So the question here is, should these systemic genetic groupings translate into legal or political distinctions? Should identifiable phylogenetic groups be denied civil rights? If so, which rights? Should we assume that there is One True God, who regards these groups with differing degrees of favor? Should we use these groupings as a basis for setting discriminatory immigration quotas, or designing different educational curricula, or designating seating locations on buses?
Is the "liberal" determination to *pretend* that these separate groups are physiologically similar enough to be treated as legal and political equals, in practice perverse and wrongheaded because the groups are so physically different? Would a "separate and not equal" dual (or more) political and legal system (including different legal rights, different access to services, different educations, different hiring and training opportunities, ad nauseum) be a BETTER FIT considering these genuine genetic groupings?
Clearly, Ghost thinks so, and the hated liberals want to go on pretending they're all human.
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