| Re: Two cyclists attacked and beaten in Portland
nash wrote:
> "Stephen Harding" <smharding16@msn.com> wrote in message
>
>>Tom Keats wrote:
>>
>>>cheers, & there's no such thing as "race" among homo sapiens,
>>
>>If Homo sapiens thinks there is, there is!
>>
>>If there is no such thing as race, then how can there be
>>such a thing as racism?
>>
>>There is at least 200 years of American history that says
>>there *is* racism, so there must be race.
>>
>>And there is plenty of the same from places outside of
>>the US as well, over a much longer period of time than
>>the US has existed.
>
> Y'ur on the wrong track. He means homo-sapiens are one species.
> Just like there are 1000 types of potatoes but whether you say potatoe or
> potato they are all one thing. philosophical metaphor kind a ting.
> right boss
If it's a philosophical metaphor than it's largely an
irrelevant one.
Humanity isn't one happy field of potatoes and never
has been.
"Race" doesn't imply species or even sub-species, at
least in the biological world. I have no doubt racist
individuals might think it so though.
SMH
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