[Taxacom] Race and taxonomy

[Karl Magnacca]

On Wed, October 8, 2008 6:44 am, Don.Colless at csiro.au wrote:
> And we may call them "races" without (in most cases) any implied
> attributes other than geographic origin. As a boy in Australia - in
> the 1920-30's - the latter was not so; but it seems to me that such
> "racism" has become quite uncommon these days.

"Less common than it used to be" doesn't necessarily mean "uncommon". 
There are plenty of people in the US who support the policies of Barack
Obama but won't vote for him because they feel he will "put too many
colored people in positions of power over the white race" (a direct
quote), and a whole lot more who think "there's just something about
him" that makes them uncomfortable.

Karl
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Karl Magnacca
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Zoology
Trinity College, Dublin 2
Ireland