Timeline for Help me understand the context behind the "It's okay to be white" question in a recent Rasmussen Poll, and what if anything might these results show?
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| May 12, 2023 at 5:13 | comment | added | uhoh | @KarlKnechtel side note; one of the primary missions of science is to disprove itself; science is never "correct" and especially not fields that are heavily model-based like genetics and ancestry. It's really not much more than "our current best guess". | |
| May 12, 2023 at 2:07 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | @DJClayworth I can readily find evidence of many different nuanced wordings being used, both by herself and in media coverage. The point is that she likely benefited institutionally from this claim. (The amazing part to me about the story is that the Cherokee apparently reacted with outrage - not because she would call herself Cherokee with such a small blood quantum, but because she would treat such a use of genetic testing as legitimate in the first place. Sucks for them if they don't like the fact that science allows discerning these facts about one's ancestors, but it objectively does.) | |
| May 11, 2023 at 13:31 | comment | added | DJClayworth | "Indigenous status" is a very specific thing, and Elizabeth Warren never claimed it. She claimed indigenous ancestry, which is very different. | |
| Feb 28, 2023 at 7:38 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | Yes, of course, but I am saying that nearly a century of such laws being in force is relevant to racial identification in the US. That you/your parents/your grandparents were denied civil rights because the government deemed them to be Black is potentially relevant to how you choose to identify today regardless of your physical appearance. Or to put that another way, until 1967, the law in a number of states applied the label "Black" to people who you might imagine as such. | |
| Feb 28, 2023 at 7:07 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | @ZachLipton codified, past tense. Legally struck down in 1967. | |
| Feb 28, 2023 at 6:32 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | re "although I have known Americans to apply the label "black" to people that I cannot possibly imagine as such," keep in mind that US law in some states codified the one-drop rule, which treated any person with just one Black ancestor as Black for the purpose of laws establishing racial segregation. This history can lead to constructions of race and self-identification in the US that differ from other countries. Of course, I'm not suggesting that this applies to Adams or that his statement should be viewed as anything but trolling. | |
| Feb 28, 2023 at 1:16 | history | answered | Karl Knechtel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |