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Thread #54752   Message #848855
Posted By: Wolfgang
17-Dec-02 - 09:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: Genetic 'Race' Non-existant
Subject: RE: BS: Genetic 'Race' Non-existant
Sigh,

perhaps you are interested to know who you acclaim. Professor Sergio Pena is one of the leading fighters against affirmative action in Brazil. The government wants to have more Brazilians of African descent in higher positions (and perhaps even more now, with the new left president).

Pena considers the quote for Blacks/Africans in the 'positive action' of the government as an act of discrimination against white Brazilians (of which he happens to be one). His tactic in attacking the governmental action is to claim that it is impossible to say beyond any doubt who has how many 'African' genes and that therefore, there is no basis for deciding who should pürofit from affirmative action.

You see the idea? If there is no race, then there are no blacks/whites at all and all discrimination of one subgroup (race??) of humans is only imaginary.

You applaud a white supremacists who uses these 'scientific' arguments for purely tactical reasons.

Wolfgang