Comments on: Does Race Exist? http://www.emceelynx.com/2008/07/does-race-exist/ Because Power concedes Nothing without a Demand Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:20:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Skeletal http://www.emceelynx.com/2008/07/does-race-exist/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Skeletal Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:35:19 +0000 http://emceelynx.com/?p=184#comment-136 All I'm gonna say is that race is nothing but a human creation...just like time. All I’m gonna say is that race is nothing but a human creation…just like time.

]]> By: TGGP http://www.emceelynx.com/2008/07/does-race-exist/comment-page-1/#comment-137 TGGP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:32:48 +0000 http://emceelynx.com/?p=184#comment-137 Jews in Europe have been a distinct breeding group for a long time. When they first settled in various European communities they took some gentile wives, but afterward they were separate. There have been a number of books written on Jewish genetic history (Jon Entine wrote one of the latest), and they support the consensus that Ashkenazi Jews are a genetically distinct group or sub-race within the larger caucasian/white/european race. Steve Sailer has <a href="http://www.vdare.com/sailer/080615_race.htm" rel="nofollow">proposed</a> a definition of race somewhat like the one you consider acceptable, though some more scientifically inclined types at GNXP still quibble with it. Greg Cochran <a href="http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/004046.html" rel="nofollow">states</a> that there is a negligible possibility of any given African/European/Oriental being more similar to someone from a different race than someone of their own here. Scientists can do cluster analysis on DNA to detect what race a person is. With double-blind testing, it matches over 99.9% of the time with self-reported race, so that's actually a pretty good indicator. I'm still unsure about the status of pygmies and Khoi-San in Africa and whether they constitute a separate race from what we might refer to as sub-Saharan black Africans. Some of the materials I read say yes and others say no. The major races were formed by geographic barriers (oceans, deserts, mountain ranges) that we don't see in sub-Saharan Africa. That's why there are so few pygmies and Khoi-San remaining and the Bantu expansion was so successful. Jews in Europe have been a distinct breeding group for a long time. When they first settled in various European communities they took some gentile wives, but afterward they were separate. There have been a number of books written on Jewish genetic history (Jon Entine wrote one of the latest), and they support the consensus that Ashkenazi Jews are a genetically distinct group or sub-race within the larger caucasian/white/european race.

Steve Sailer has proposed a definition of race somewhat like the one you consider acceptable, though some more scientifically inclined types at GNXP still quibble with it.

Greg Cochran states that there is a negligible possibility of any given African/European/Oriental being more similar to someone from a different race than someone of their own here.

Scientists can do cluster analysis on DNA to detect what race a person is. With double-blind testing, it matches over 99.9% of the time with self-reported race, so that’s actually a pretty good indicator.

I’m still unsure about the status of pygmies and Khoi-San in Africa and whether they constitute a separate race from what we might refer to as sub-Saharan black Africans. Some of the materials I read say yes and others say no. The major races were formed by geographic barriers (oceans, deserts, mountain ranges) that we don’t see in sub-Saharan Africa. That’s why there are so few pygmies and Khoi-San remaining and the Bantu expansion was so successful.

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