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LIVE on @CrowdcastHQ shortly | @AdamRutherford talks How to Argue with a Racist http://crowdcast.io/e/hayfestival_event21">https://crowdcast.io/e/hayfest... | #ImagineTheWorld
Please note: due to high demand, this session is now closed to new registrations. Instead, you can watch it streamed at http://youtube.com/c/HayFestivalOfficial">https://youtube.com/c/HayFest...
Please note: due to high demand, this session is now closed to new registrations. Instead, you can watch it streamed at http://youtube.com/c/HayFestivalOfficial">https://youtube.com/c/HayFest...
"Genetics is a science with a dark past. Race is a social construct, not a biologically meaningful category" - @AdamRutherford | #ImagineTheWorld
"No one predicted the enormous popularity of commercial genetic tests. I am pretty critical of what they say and what they mean. They tend to reinvigorate ideas of determinism and, in a way, nationalism" - @AdamRutherford | #ImagineTheWorld
"The misinterpretation of commercial genetic tests is a big problem. I have no cultural affinity with Asia, I was born and raised in England, and yet half of my DNA is associated with India" - @AdamRutherford | #ImagineTheWorld
"The idea of ancestral purity is a total fiction. Everyone is descended from everyone on Earth 3,000 years ago. We’re all inbred. Each and every Neo-Nazi has Jewish ancestry" - @AdamRutherford | #ImagineTheWorld
"Race exists. Saying that race does not exist is not a true statement. It’s important we don’t say that. What we should say is that race is a social construct and not a biological concept" - @AdamRutherford | #ImagineTheWorld
"Religion, geography, language and culture are taxonomies that have long pre-existed skin pigmentation to classify people" - @AdamRutherford | #ImagineTheWorld
"Skin pigmentation is a very recent way of classifying population. It emerged with the European expansion" - @AdamRutherford | #ImagineTheWorld
"In science we stand on the shoulders of giants and we look further, to paraphrase Newton, but it is important to acknowledge that some of those giants were highly problematic. The European enlightenment started classifying races and this echoes in the present..."
"There is more diversity in pigmentation variation in Africa than anywhere else in the world. And yet pigmentation, skin colour, is the key founding principle of race as a social construct" - @AdamRutherford | #ImagineTheWorld
"Racism is not a bad thing because it uses specious scientific arguments, it is a bad thing because it is an affront to human dignity. This book is a tool book to help you confront that" - @AdamRutherford | #ImagineTheWorld
