This is amazing Lee, I love it. I especially appreciate that you quoted me towards the end of your paper. I consider your work a treasure, and yes, they (the DEI people) promised a horse and delivered a mule. Thank you for your great work!
Excellent paper. White and Black are nonsense categories anyway. Descendants of American slaves, Afro-Caribbeans and recent African immigrants are three very distinct groups. Euro-Americans are also highly diverse. Melanin content of skin is not a useful sorting category except for things such as vitamin D deficiency risks.
Great essay. Thank you... interestingly, I don't think the colloquial racial categories used by academics make much sense, anymore (if they ever did). I made this point in a recent post: "When ‘Black’ & ‘Hispanic’ Students Outscore ‘Asian’ & ‘White’ Students on the ACT, Nobody Notices."
I’m rephasing my comment. Sometimes my dictation software doesn’t listen to me. While the Substack post to which you refer is interesting, it’s very teleological and speculative. Often people use “just so” stories to explain evolution that are not consistent with how evolution works. https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/crossbill-finches-evolution-and-bisexual
This is amazing Lee, I love it. I especially appreciate that you quoted me towards the end of your paper. I consider your work a treasure, and yes, they (the DEI people) promised a horse and delivered a mule. Thank you for your great work!
Excellent paper. White and Black are nonsense categories anyway. Descendants of American slaves, Afro-Caribbeans and recent African immigrants are three very distinct groups. Euro-Americans are also highly diverse. Melanin content of skin is not a useful sorting category except for things such as vitamin D deficiency risks.
Agreed.
Great essay. Thank you... interestingly, I don't think the colloquial racial categories used by academics make much sense, anymore (if they ever did). I made this point in a recent post: "When ‘Black’ & ‘Hispanic’ Students Outscore ‘Asian’ & ‘White’ Students on the ACT, Nobody Notices."
https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/when-black-and-hispanic-students
I don't think anyone is really interested in diversity, anymore. It's about status...
Heh. Lorenzo, whose comment appears just above yours, is all over that:
https://helendale.substack.com/p/social-justice-as-social-leverage
I’m rephasing my comment. Sometimes my dictation software doesn’t listen to me. While the Substack post to which you refer is interesting, it’s very teleological and speculative. Often people use “just so” stories to explain evolution that are not consistent with how evolution works. https://everythingisbiology.substack.com/p/crossbill-finches-evolution-and-bisexual