{"id":59501,"date":"2020-02-07T19:27:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59501"},"modified":"2020-02-07T19:27:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T19:27:13","slug":"the-clear-genetic-boundaries-that-racists-crave-to-bolster-their-narrative-are-simply-absent-from-the-analyses-of-our-20000-odd-genes-and-their-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59501","title":{"rendered":"The clear genetic boundaries that racists crave to bolster their narrative are simply absent from the analyses of our 20,000-odd genes and their variants."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The claim that genetics supports any form of racism \u2013 or that it supports the idea of race as a biologically meaningful concept \u2013 is a fallacy, argues the geneticist, author and Twitter warrior <a href=\"http:\/\/adamrutherford.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Rutherford<\/a>, in this slim, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V_sign#As_an_insult\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-fingered salute<\/a> to the haters: \u201cThe continual failure to settle on the number of races is indicative of its folly. No one has ever agreed how many races there are, nor what their essential features might be, aside from the sweeping generalisations about skin colour, hair texture and some facial features.\u201d The clear genetic boundaries that racists crave to bolster their narrative are simply absent from the analyses of our 20,000-odd genes and their variants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anjana Ajuha, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The pseudoscience of hate<\/a>,\u201d <em>The New Statesman<\/em>, February 5, 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/2020\/02\/how-to-argue-with-a-racist-adam-rutherford-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/2020\/02\/how-to-argue-with-a-racist-adam-rutherford-review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The claim that genetics supports any form of racism \u2013 or that it supports the idea of race as a biologically meaningful concept \u2013 is a fallacy, argues the geneticist, author and Twitter warrior Adam Rutherford, in this slim, two-fingered salute to the haters: \u201cThe continual failure to settle on the number of races is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20331,30730,25403,30729],"class_list":["post-59501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-adam-rutherford","tag-anjana-ajuha","tag-new-statesman","tag-the-new-statesman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59502,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59501\/revisions\/59502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}