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[–]GConly 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's largely kept from the public, but about half of biological anthropologists support race as a concept. Probably because a major part of their work involves looking at the biological differences between human groups. Most of the rest take a clinal variation stance.

The MMM usually manages to keep a lid on this becoming obvious with a twofold strategy. Only allowing those who tow the line to appear in the media, and by presenting those who don't as an uncommon outlier instead of the norm.

Same as the IQ and race argument. Most psychologists who study this believe the difference is at least partially down to genes, but the egalitarians are always pushed as the prevalent opinion.

It's virtually impossible to come to the "all environment" conclusion by looking at the science, its a political POV that comes out of social Marxism.

When I was studying both these subjects it became very obvious that the scientists were treading very carefully to avoid setting off the humanities departments One wrong word and all hell would break lose. We now have the Marxists who run these departments dictating policy on campus as whole.

They should have been told to fuck off back in 2000. But we allowed the long march to continue. Look where it got us.

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What's a clinal variation stance?

[–]GConly 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No races as discrete units, but a slow fade from one group to another in traits.

Think about how skin colour varies gradually as you go on a north south axis. That's a clinal variation.

It's an equally valid POV.