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Geneticists Criticize Use of Science by White Nationalists to Justify ‘Racial Purity’
‘…In an unusual statement on the role of science in the resurgence of white supremacy in America, the American Society of Human Genetics on Friday denounced “attempts to link genetics and racial supremacy.”
The statement, which appears in the November issue of the group’s scientific journal, The American Journal of Human Genetics, said the concept of “racial purity” was scientifically meaningless. The group has about 8,000 members and is the largest professional organization of scientists who study human genetics.
As newly visible and often-virulent groups of white nationalists have invoked genetic research to claim racial superiority, some geneticists have suggested that the field was not doing enough to counter the claims.
[….] It also explains a distinction between race and ancestry that geneticists say has been muddled by the rise of commercial ancestry tests.
“Although a person’s genetics influences their phenotypic characteristics, and self-identified race might be influenced by physical appearance,” the statement said, “race itself is a social construct,” meaning it has no biological basis. “Black,” for instance, is a socially defined term that includes many Americans who have a majority of European ancestry…’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/white-supremacists-science-genetics.html
the actual text
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‘The American Journal of Human Genetics’ Attempts to Link Genetics and Racial Supremacy
‘…The past decade has seen the emergence of strategies for assessing an individual’s genetic ancestry. Such analyses8 are providing increasingly accurate ways of helping to define individuals’ ancestral origins and enabling new ways to explore and discuss ancestries that move us beyond blunt definitions of self-identified race…’
https://blog.ashg.org/2018/10/19/announcing-ajhg-perspectives-series/
As’Ad Abukhalil is the blogger from The Angry Arab News Service
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AS’AD ABUKHALIL: ‘…he was always a symbol of reactionary advocacy on behalf of the Saudi regime and militant Salafi Islam. That’s what he stood for. The picture that is being painted in mainstream Western media is totally unrecognizable for anybody who bothers to read Arabic. Unfortunately, all the people who are commenting about the issue and commenting even about his record of journalism, so to speak, are people who have never read anything except in the Washington Post…’
‘The murder of Jamal Khashoggi should be denounced. Professor As`ad AbuKhalil says western media’s uncritical praise of Khashoggi is unworthy, he was a loyal member of the Saudi propaganda apparatus and chose the wrong side of the House of Saud.’
full transcript: https://therealnews.com/stories/duplicitous-khashoggi-picked-the-wrong-prince