thomblake comments on Shut Up and Divide? - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Wei_Dai 09 February 2010 08:09PM

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Comment author: thomblake 11 February 2010 09:53:50PM -1 points [-]

I'm not aware of a simple, accessible guide to the history of science regarding race. The AAA Statement on "Race" seems to disagree with me, claiming that the concept of "race" was based on bad philosophy and political motivations instead of bad science.

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Comment author: thomblake 11 February 2010 10:12:40PM 1 point [-]

I disagree with him on the proper stance to take on the word "race", but I doubt our disagreement goes any deeper than that. At the end of the day, my feeling on the matter probably does have more to do with politics than linguistics.