If you would "care to read" my comments you would know that I am well aware of sickle cell's population distribution. I'm afraid your comment isn't really responsive to my point. Maybe its because you haven't read my whole comment chain, which is fair — you're under no obligation to obviously. Doing so might…

Thanks Specular. I appreciate it.

Fair point. But again, that has to do with "race" as a social construct (e.g. blackness), not whether you belong to a given biological population — e.g. those who have the sickle cell trait and who might be Italian or middle eastern.

Mmm, I don't think we agree then. I think it's pretty clear that race is based on certain physiognomic traits shared by certain populations. I don't think it is precise or quantifiable, and it has evolved to include people who don't "look" like a certain race as belonging to a certain race because of heredity (e.g.…

Expect they aren't. Only 3.9 of American marriages are interracial, and only 2% of whites wed interracially. Only 2.9% of the population is interracial. Do you know why the numbers aren't as high as you would expect? Racism — that apparently irrelevant-to-this-conversation social construct. It's not just about…

No one is saying that a "person is a different sub species" then us.

No, I'm not. I am very aware of the fact that certain traits we associate with races, like sickle cell, are really correlated with certain populations. But those populations are often racially identifiable. It's not a perfect match, but in the US, sickle cell affects a visually and culturally distinct population…

Your problem is that you are arguing against a ghost. No one is debating that traits attributed to a race are generalizable to every person of that race. But you're jumping ahead seven steps to warning doctors against over reliance on race, when the issue presented is that race is being ignored to the detriment of…

Wow. I was going to ad hominim about how patronizing you are in my last post, but I refrained. Fool me once.

You want to have a conversation about some non existent world. In my opinion, that isn't productive. You can quibble that race should never have been "invented," and say that you wish it would go away, but that is completely unhelpful to those of us who are living in the present. You point to gender as a similar…

Pedantic semantics.

Pedantic semantics.

Groups of people who only mate with each other = how you get racial variance to begin with. No one is saying that there are significant differences between races that justify prejudice/genocide etc/eugenics, but trying to deny that race is a proxy for certain traits — whether it's eye color or sickle cell — is a…

Your comment = "It isn't race though" followed by an explanation of how racial in group mating has yielded variance between racial populations.

* Internet hugs *

That's cute.

Really? Interesting. Then why was she a secretary instead of some sort of analyst?

The most amazing things to me about this movie is the notion of a job where a secretary could work her way up to being a "boss." With all the academic training required for most jobs these days, its hard to imagine truly working your way up "from the mailroom" as it were. No. First, you need to graduate from…

I freaking love Carly Simon. That is all.

What is this from? It's amazing!