Category Archives: Race

NYT: ‘The Easiest Way to Get Rid of Racism? Just Redefine It.’

Racism as a moral wrong has no reality because the concept was not in any moral lexicon prior to the 20th Century. Prior the last 100 years, you never heard about “racism.” Jesus never condemned it. No great rabbi has … Continue reading

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New Test Detects Race and Gender With a Single Hair

News: Look out criminals. The crime-busting tools of science fiction are becoming a reality. A new forensic test can detect the ethnicity and gender of someone using nothing but a single hair, and in less than two minutes no less, … Continue reading

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Girl, 16, took own life after fearing she’d be called a racist after picture of her with darkened skin was shared online

Daily Mail: A teenage girl took her own life after fearing she would be called racist after a photo of her with darkened skin and a headscarf was shared online. Phoebe Connop, 16, from Halesowen in the West Midlands, had … Continue reading

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Human Biodiversity: the Pseudoscientific Racism of the Alt-Right

Ari Feldman writes for the Forward: There’s a piece of the “alt-right” puzzle of bigotry you need to know more about: “human biodiversity.” An ideological successor to eugenics, human biodiversity (HBD) is, like eugenics (from the Greek words for “good” … Continue reading

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On the Reality of Race & the Abhorrence of Racism Part II: Human Biodiversity & Its Implications

Professor Brian Boutwell writes: If you observe the residents of Japan and compare them to residents of the rural southern United States, you’ll note some differences. Some differences will be stark, others less so, yet they will not be isolated … Continue reading

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