I would rather be dense than a racist. You win on that score.
You're the one who said a particular race was stupid. I asked
which race, but you have yet to answer. No need. We all got
the message. You can dance all you want, but that won't make
you Fred Astaire. It's pretty obvious what you are, and there's
definitely no need to explain that twice.

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"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:52:34 -0800, "Jonathan Ganz"
said:

Right. But that's not what he's talking about. He saying that
a particular "race" is less intelligent than another. Race has
nothing to do with education, worldliness, or nutrition. It has
to do with skin color and other genetic factors that make up
one's physiology.

You truly are dense, aren't you Jonathan.

I'm taking a group of people who share a single
characteristic--stupidity--without regard to skin color or any other
genetic
factors, and labeling that group of people as the "stupid" race. Surely
someone so enlightened as you believe yourself to be would argue that

1. any classification into races is arbitrary and
2. any one individual historically labeled as a member of a particular
race
is likely to have more characteristics in common with an arbitrarily
selected member of a group historically labeled a member of another race
than he is with an arbitrarily selected member of the group historically
labeled as members of his own race.

If you accept that argument, then identifying a group of people as
belonging
to the "stupid" race is as valid as any other classification.

I don't expect you'll follow this, but most folks will, so please don't
ask
me to explain it to you further. I suspect a goodly number followed it the
first time around.


Dave
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