Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: genome news (fwd)

[JKSCHW]

In a message dated 00-04-09 00:04:25 EDT, you write:

<< the socio-biological claim that
 people differ because they differ genetically is called RACISM,  >>

No it's not. It would be racist (and genetically illiterate, for the most 
part) to say that some groups of people are inferior to another because of 
their genes, but it is not racist to say, for example, that Black people are  
different in the color of their skin from whites in large part because of 
their genes. That is just true.  Genes are causally efficaous; they do 
account for some of the variation in differences between groups and 
individuals, and anyone who denies that has no idea what he is talking about.

--jks