wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <drpetersutphen@>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > But let's say this classification is true with some
> > > modification. The modification would be that any
> > > specific individual of any race could have any of the
> > > guna characteristics delineated by Bob. I've met some
> > > very sattvic Black people and some very tamasic White
> > > people. So perhaps as a group measure what Bob says is
> > > true, but you will find that the within group
> > > differences are greater than the between group
> > > differences. So this classification can facilitate
> > > nothing other than racism because it has no practical
> > > application, does it? Since there is no such thing as
> > > a "group" as a coherent interactive entity, it simply
> > > reifies an abstract category.
> >
> > Not to mention that the concept of "race" is extremely
> > fuzzy to start with in any practical sense.
> >
>
> "Any practical sense"?
>
> You yourself, Billie, advocate a form of racism in a VERY real and
> practical sense: you advocate affirmative action.
Affirmative action, of course, is not racism, as we've
discussed before.
But that has nothing to do with what I was talking
about, as you know.
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