Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
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But no one EVER calls Obama a white guy.
Because that's how race works in America: it's a social construct.
Can't have much more expertise in this matter
https://www.uni-jena.de/unijenamedia/60680/jenaer-erklaerung-en.pdf
Everything we have learned from decades of study of human variation and ancestry supports the Smithsonian statement.
“the primary difference in skin color among Homo sapiens (modern humans) is largely due to variations in the amount of the pigment melanin, which is produced by melanocytes in the skin. “
was never out of Northern Europe.
#science 🌿
Do dog breeds
https://bsky.app/profile/duendeonfuego.bsky.social/post/3llp6rpne6s2v
The issue is that as a white supremacist he believes in an ancient white race of humans. More fool him, all of us have African ancestors.
The sitting president and aspiring autocrat is scientifically illiterate and is characteristically trying to sew racial division.
MAGA relies on racism in order to offer poor whites "something" as it destroys essential governmental services & functions
These EOs are written by people like Stephen Miller and Russ Vought.
Trump is a human autopen.
hypocrisy is all they know.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_genetics
It's by no means a new phenomenon but Christ alive I'd hoped things would improve as I got older, not devolve into this
Or if that's a bit prokaryotic for you....
Someone wasn't paying attention in sophomore bio
racism times idiocracy cubed
Brought to us by the good people who believe Noah road a dinosaur to work.
It's scientific claptrap.