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    Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick Oct 22

    Ancestry in DNA/ genetic science matters, but "race" doesn't. This is an essential thing to explain but so many people just won't hear it / think about the distinction.

    10:43 AM - 22 Oct 2018
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      2. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz Oct 22
        Replying to @B_resnick

        I really, really, really think this needs to be spelled out in a non-polarizing way. For a lot of people, I think "race" just means "big group of people with common ancestry." Which...is not an unreasonable way to think about it, even if that's not true.

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      3. Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick Oct 22
        Replying to @AlanLevinovitz

        yeah. that's fair. Might make for a good standalone piece explaining the difference.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz Oct 22
        Replying to @B_resnick

        As long as you are in the business of explaining important issues, I'd love a piece that unpacks the genetics-IQ stuff in a way people can understand. As I see it, many of the race = IQ folks are thinking about it something like this...

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      5. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz Oct 22
        Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @B_resnick

        "Well, one individual can clearly have genes that influence intelligence. And those genes seem to run in families. Doesn't it make sense that such genes would also run in larger groups of people related by ancestry?" Unpacking the problems with that logic wld do a huge service.

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      6. Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick Oct 22
        Replying to @AlanLevinovitz

        this piece gets into it, I believehttps://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech …

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      7. Brian Resnick‏Verified account @B_resnick Oct 22
        Replying to @B_resnick @AlanLevinovitz

        but yeah, overall, more clarity, more explaining is better!

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      2. 白左‏ @bye_tswaw Oct 22
        Replying to @B_resnick

        Yes, race is socially constructed so individuals with significant non-African ancestry like Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and Valerie Jarrett are still considered black. This is a very smart argument that disproves racism.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. David Pinsen‏ @dpinsen Oct 24
        Replying to @bye_tswaw @B_resnick

        Species is socially constructed too, and there are ligers - but that doesn’t mean lions and tigers aren’t different. This is all obfuscation and sophistry designed to own the racists, but it ends up being a self-own.

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      4. Trevor Sutcliffe‏ @TrevorSutcliffe Oct 24
        Replying to @dpinsen @bye_tswaw @B_resnick

        An even better example might be grizzly bears and polar bears. Their offspring is fertile, so according to the biological species concept they would be the exact same species and just different races of bear.

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      5. David Pinsen‏ @dpinsen Oct 24
        Replying to @TrevorSutcliffe @bye_tswaw @B_resnick

        Interesting. So why aren't they considered the same specious? Is it because that would impede scaremongering about vanishing polar bears?

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      6. Trevor Sutcliffe‏ @TrevorSutcliffe Oct 24
        Replying to @dpinsen @bye_tswaw @B_resnick

        Well, there's no consensus on which species concept is the "best", but the biological one is the most cut-and-dry. I do wonder if there are people that fear that designating these bears as sub-species of the same species would make people think about about taxonomy of human races

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      7. Swole Delts‏ @wotmeighn Oct 26
        Replying to @TrevorSutcliffe @dpinsen and

        Well the same could be said about how we define them as different species now. They are so different in their phenotypes there’s no way we can consider them the same species. Imagine if we applied that to humans.

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      2. Hat Speech  🎩‏ @scrittoir Oct 24
        Replying to @B_resnick

        So what, exactly, is the difference between race and ancestry?

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      3. Morris Applebaum IV‏ @Applebaum4th Oct 25
        Replying to @scrittoir @B_resnick

        One is really, really bad, maybe the worst thing in the universe. The other is SCIENCE, which is okay so long as you make very very clear it’s not the really really bad, evil thing.https://g.co/kgs/a7CPNV 

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      1. Lanny‏ @Lanny1793 Oct 26
        Replying to @B_resnick

        I'm so happy you say these things. This is exactly why whites are leaving the left in droves and rushing into the arms of White Nationalism. Just insane babble statements like "race doesn't exist, except it obvs does, but only when we say it does in our specific science terms."

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      1. andy‏ @HeckYeahMan Oct 25
        Replying to @B_resnick

        Please explain. Thanks.

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      1. Marek M. Möhling (aka Albert)‏ @schubert_albert Oct 25
        Replying to @B_resnick

        Is cognitive dissonance heritable? Anyway, sure can be grating.

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      1. Sarah Grynpas‏ @SarahGrynpas Oct 22
        Replying to @B_resnick

        Can't you guys just shorthand it by saying "Looking at someone won't tell you anything about their intelligence, at least not beyond their SES"? There's a role for historians here too.

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