# Der Trihs Pitting du jour **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 7, 2011, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714 "2011-01-07T04:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 343
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714/343 "2013-11-18T06:50:41Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I had thought it was a true correlation. But even if it’s wrong, how is it racist? It isn’t making a value judgement; it isn’t denigrating anyone. If I point to a guy and say, “Him, that black guy over there,” is that racist? Not really, no. But that’s a social act, not a scientific one. > [@](#): > > But, go back to sickle cell. Can you expand on your point? Your discursions about Turks and Italians seems a non sequitur. Did you see the map of Sickle cell prevalence? Southern Italians and Turks are way more likely to have the sickle cell gene than Blacks from South African or NE Africa. > [@](#): > > If there really is a correlation between a population and a particular genetic ailment, why is it racist to observe this? Because there _isn’t_ a correlation between the Black “race” and sickle cell. There are _non-exclusive_ correlations between sickle cell and **some** African _populations_ that are traditionally, wrongly and unscientifically clustered in an umbrella Black race. But that’s it. > [@](#): > > For instance, only women get ovarian cancer: is that a sexist thing for me to say? Nope. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/der-trihs-pitting-du-jour/566714)._