Whoopsie Goldberg Holocaust Foo-pah

[cosmic4z]

Wooopi Goldberg (apologies if that’s not the correct spelling of her name), has back-peddled on her assertion that the holocaust was about mans inhumanity to man, rather than about race.

 

Of course, her original instatement was clumsy and insensitive, and on the surface of it, it’s clear the holocaust was very much about race, and she absolutely should have considered the feelings of those with ties to historical atrocities.

 

I wonder though, if her original impulse was to de-emphasise the importance of race, and to assert our common shared humanity. Isn’t that a direction we should be going in, less seeing ourselves as separate distinct races, and more seeing ourselves as one human race?

[helpfuldemon]

She was right.  They killed other groups too, not just Jews.

[Nungali]

13 hours ago, cosmic4z said:

Wooopi Goldberg (apologies if that’s not the correct spelling of her name), has back-peddled on her assertion that the holocaust was about mans inhumanity to man, rather than about race.

 

Of course, her original instatement was clumsy and insensitive, and on the surface of it, it’s clear the holocaust was very much about race, and she absolutely should have considered the feelings of those with ties to historical atrocities.

 

I wonder though, if her original impulse was to de-emphasise the importance of race, and to assert our common shared humanity. Isn’t that a direction we should be going in, less seeing ourselves as separate distinct races, and more seeing ourselves as one human race?

 

Its becoming quite the defunct term in academia lately  .... but pop culture doesnt help .    We now have things  like  'of ....... (Asian or whatever )  ... appearance .    or as some state now   "   of ....... ancestry  "  or instead an identification not with 'race ' but 'ethnicity '

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)

 

" The term was first used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations. By the 17th century, the term began to refer to physical (phenotypical) traits. Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society.^[2] While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning "

 

Today, scientists consider such biological essentialism obsolete,^[6] and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptions of race are untenable,^{[12][13][14][15][16][17]} scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways

 

Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptions of race are untenable,^{[12][13][14][15][16][17]} scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways.^[18] While some researchers continue to use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits or observable differences in behavior, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race is inherently naive^[7] or simplistic.^[19] Still others argue that, among humans, race has no taxonomic significance because all living humans belong to the same subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.

 

Since the second half of the 20th century, the association of race with the discredited theories of scientific racism has contributed to race becoming increasingly seen as a largely pseudoscientific system of classification . "

[natural]

4 minutes ago, Nungali said:

 

 

 race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning "

 

Today, scientists consider such biological essentialism obsolete,^[6] and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptions of race are untenable,^{[12][13][14][15][16][17]} scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways

 

Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptions of race are untenable,^[12]

 

This bears repeating!

Thank you N