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Re: Why can't we have a Lando: Lego's Race policy
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 1 May 2000 22:57:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
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> > The color of the dog's fur has no more impact upon its breed than a man's • skin
> > has upon his speices. Different dog breeds have significant physical
> > differences not merely cosmetic ones.
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> How about a chocolate lab vs. a black lab? Each is prized for certain
> "cosmetic" differences, yet each is a labrador, and each is a dog.
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> > As far as I know there are no
> > significant physical differences amoung humans, only cosmetic ones.
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> You ventured in another post that you're either more "mentally well" or "so
> naive it isn't funny." You don't at face value seem more well than anyone • else
> here, nor would I say you're necessarily naive. However, it seems that you're
> being deliberately obtuse about this. No one here has asserted that there's a
> "gene" for race, and a good chunk of this discussion erupted from an innocent,
> off-hand reference to race, according to a vernacular almost universal except
> among Postmodernists and pedants (which may, I grant you, be a redundancy).
> What you're doing, though, is trivializing the issue of race by presuming
> that it can be eliminated simply by asserting that you don't think that one
> current playing field is valid. Dr. King didn't die because he was trying to
> delineate the genetics of "colored" and "white," yet you're trying very hard • to
> reduce such sacrifices as his to a simplistic question of "don't they get it?"
> Likewise, the lynch mobs of the early 20th century didn't hunt people down • who
> failed a DNA test. The problem of race is real, even if it can't be stratified
> according to some genetic checklist to your liking.
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> Dave!
Glad to see that SOMEONE is on my side, Dave!
-Chris (the one who started this entire posting thread, as well as who made
the offhanded remark of race)
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