Racializing sickle cell may be useful in America due to its unique racial history (with the descent of its Black population being historically from areas with high sickle cell trait, and the descent of its White population being from areas with low sickle cell trait). This racial history however doesn’t give you the power to generalize claims that race is indicative of sickle cell. This is expanding far beyond a loose generality of US ancestry, to misapply it to those who live outside of America; those who do not share America’s particular genetic legacies.
@MrDibble is an African who lives in Africa. His racial identification and the resulting assumptions (relating to health risks) should be made upon his actual heritage not those of Americans. His disagreement is valid. Southern Africans do not share the same risks for sickle cell as Black Americans do (or like those non-Africans who come from Malaria prone regions do).
This disagreement is a good example why racial generalities themselves are misleading. Their predictabilities are wrong and irrelevant on any global scale. Worse yet, is when assumptions made on racial grounds are often taken as truisms and get used without thought to their accuracy.
Plonk is a Usenet jargon term for adding a particular poster to one’s kill file such that the poster’s future postings are completely ignored… The word is an example of onomatopoeia, intended to humorously represent the supposed sound of the user hitting the bottom of the kill file. It is also sometimes given as an acronym standing for Please Log Off, Net Kook, though this is likely a backronym. Other used expressions are “put lamer on killfile” and Please Leave Our Newsgroup: Killfile! It is also used as a verb: “I plonked that idiot”.
Sorry, I have to ask. I am generally familiar with Kant’s racism and his atrocious moral reasoning, but why do you say “nearly”? Is it only “nearly” because as a child he was too young yet to have articulated and avowed racist beliefs, or did he somehow rekant later in life?
His views moderated somewhat later in life. Not to the point he still wouldn’t be considered a racist today but to the point he thought European colonialism was misguided and that nations of other races should have, in principle, the right of self-determination, even if he thought Europeans were still superior in most ways. By 18th century standards, that’s positively progressive.
So, I guess by 18th century standards, Max is an enlightened soul. Unfortunately for him (and us), it’s the 21st century and his beliefs are at least a century if not more out of date.
I fear that in a couple more decades, seeing how things have been going lately, Max may yet be deemed “enlightened” by contemporary (future) standards. He certainly does seem to have a very strong Clarence Thomas vibe coming off him (in terms of his strained minimalist/government-power-should-be-limited-to-that-necessary-to-establish-a-fascist-regime-and-the-14th-amendment-is-a-superstition reading of the Constitution).
If somebody does not have the testicular fortitude to do the right thing, I would hope they’d have the personal integrity to admit their moral cowardice. I could understand that and could even sympathize - it’s not easy to have the courage of your convictions when there’s a gun in your face.
But the insistence there’s justness and a moral principle involved in not only turning your back to the plight of a suffering person right in front of you but act as an accomplice and collaborator with slavetakers and Nazis is monstrous and delusional.
Yeah, I’m a wimp. And I’d like to think i would have hidden a runaway slave, but maybe I’d have been too frightened to do so. I know that I’m confessing cowardice, and not a virtue, though.
I do love revisiting old posts of mine, and I don’t think my views here has changed in 12 years.
And in regards to someone who willingly turns in people to enslavement.
Really. Enslavement is no game. Its the matter of life or death, (or if you are deemed uppity) a long torturously painful death. And this is just looking at the individual, your family and friends are up for the exact same treatment for all their worldly time on this earth.
What you guys don’t understand is that our young friend, the KKK’s Model Minority of the Year 2021, sees this as a PROPERTY issue, not a human rights issue.
Declare that as a sovereign citizen and a freeman on the land, the State of Vermont has no right to restrict your travel which is not involved in commerce.
