wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk"
<shempmcgurk@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > But let's say this classification is true with some
> > > > > modification. The modification would be that any
> > > > > specific individual of any race could have any of the
> > > > > guna characteristics delineated by Bob. I've met some
> > > > > very sattvic Black people and some very tamasic White
> > > > > people. So perhaps as a group measure what Bob says is
> > > > > true, but you will find that the within group
> > > > > differences are greater than the between group
> > > > > differences. So this classification can facilitate
> > > > > nothing other than racism because it has no practical
> > > > > application, does it? Since there is no such thing as
> > > > > a "group" as a coherent interactive entity, it simply
> > > > > reifies an abstract category.
> > > >
> > > > Not to mention that the concept of "race" is extremely
> > > > fuzzy to start with in any practical sense.
> > > >
> > >
> > > "Any practical sense"?
> > >
> > > You yourself, Billie, advocate a form of racism in a VERY real
> and
> > > practical sense: you advocate affirmative action.
> >
> > Affirmative action, of course, is not racism, as we've
> > discussed before.
> >
> > But that has nothing to do with what I was talking
> > about, as you know.
> >
>
> You were talking about the concept of race as being "extremely
> fuzzy". Look up there, above, Billie. See it? You said it.
Take your medication, Shemp.
>
> The concept of affirmative action is ALL about race. You have
NEVER
> been fuzzy about it and affirmative action -- whether one agrees or
> disagrees with it -- has VERY practical applications.
>
> You stand corrected.
>
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