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Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED
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RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED
(January 29, 2015 at 6:09 pm)Brian37 Wrote: That is precisely the point. Science does have descriptions of scull shape and skin tone, and those are relevant to evolution. We are the same species which is why we cannot afford religious people to switch back and forth to allow them to ignore this.

Yes, but we cannot ignore as well those who get discriminated on skin tone, regardless of what we know about biology; socially speaking there are races, we identify races all the time, it's common - I can at least think of some categories - White, black, mixed, asian, arabs and jews. These are categories we create based on our own social constructed norms, we identify people because of their skin and facial features, that's a fact - It doesn't matter if biologically there's no race. And it's also truth that with some races we attribute stereotypes, and there comes the danger with anti-semitism and all the white nationalists who hate them; and Islamophobia not against Islam but against people who look "middle eastern".

I'm going to give you a personal example - I'm white, but my dad looked a little like a middle eastern person, he REALLY did, if he dressed on of those "hijabs" he'd pass for a long life Muslim, but he wasn't a religious person to begin with and he doesn't have descendants from the middle east. Once he went to italy or germany (can't remember) on a work trip, he went to a hotel... It happens cops were looking for a terrorist, an Islamic terrorist that sent a threat about bombing; about 10 guys similar to SWAT forces entered his room and almost arrested him because he looked "arab" and because of that he could be a terrorist; luckily he figured it out and explained he was European and portuguese of origin. Do you see, trough this example, how it becomes blurry for race? Now apply this example of high magnitude to small stereotypes that might hurt people who "look Muslim" but may even not be.
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Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 18, 2015 at 2:17 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 18, 2015 at 2:25 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by AFTT47 - January 20, 2015 at 12:22 am
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Dystopia - January 18, 2015 at 3:59 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 18, 2015 at 4:10 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Dystopia - January 18, 2015 at 4:14 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 18, 2015 at 5:06 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brakeman - January 18, 2015 at 5:06 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 18, 2015 at 5:18 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Dystopia - January 18, 2015 at 6:14 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 18, 2015 at 6:38 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Regina - January 18, 2015 at 8:47 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 18, 2015 at 8:54 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Dystopia - January 18, 2015 at 9:15 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 19, 2015 at 7:53 am
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Dystopia - January 19, 2015 at 9:53 am
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 19, 2015 at 9:58 am
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Dystopia - January 29, 2015 at 6:05 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by robvalue - January 19, 2015 at 5:56 am
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Dystopia - January 19, 2015 at 3:12 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Brian37 - January 29, 2015 at 6:09 pm
RE: Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED - by Dystopia - January 29, 2015 at 6:15 pm

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