Comments on: Harvard Law School 3L’s Racist Email Goes National

By: oops

oops — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:56:00 +0000

“You may be better at math “then” me, but your grammar sure isn’t any better.”

“I” not “me”

grammar correction fail.

By: inevitable

inevitable — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:23:28 +0000

The extreme lack of intelligence displayed in a majority of these comments is frightening.All anyone has to do is take a look around and observe what is happening in our society(in America). All the answers are there.If you are too blinded by political correctness to see the truth,well you are an idiot who deserves whatever happens to you when the welfare class revolts because the money has run out.

By: Ha!

Ha! — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:52:17 +0000

Stupid federalist society.

By: alekssv

alekssv — Sat, 08 May 2010 05:11:28 +0000

She is not asking the right questions, she herself proves she is racist just by the fact that she questions if black people may have genetically less intelligence, than whites. The correct question is if race affects intelligence. The outcome may be that blacks are more intelligent than whites. Yet, she used her preconceived notions of intelligence to hint at black inferiority. Consider the fact that she never mentions the possibility of white inferiority. This shows that she already had a preconceived notion.Her information is also out of date, consider the quote “Women tend to perform less well in math due at least in part to prenatal levels of testosterone.” This statement is wrong, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/3.... Women are as good in math as men are.Her response to the controversy continues her veiled racism. Take the quote “I don’t think it is that controversial of an opinion to say I think it is at least possible that African Americans are less intelligent on a genetic level”. She did not realize the folly of picking a single race as possibly inferior. She could have added that asians, blacks, native americans could also possibly be mentally superior. Because she did not consider all these alternatives, this makes me to believe that she has at least some veiled racist notions about black people.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:02:47 +0000

This e-mail was not racist in the slightest. Race probably has some small genetic links to intelligence (it would be surprising if there were NO links). This does not mean anything for civil rights, and this student never implied it did. Above all, she is talking about a *fact question* in a careful, respectful way, and does not deserve to be pilloried for it.

By: John

John — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:45:42 +0000

The first time I read his report I thought it was 1st. April and it was some sort of joke. But appears to be for real! It's not so much that this person's comments were racist. Strictly speaking I don't think they were although they strongly suggest the author IS racist. More importantly I think they demonstrate abject stupidity and a level of knowledge and “scientific” thinking equivalent to the standards of the 16th Century. Let's all head for Salem and have some more witch hunts. And for someone who has studdied law and intends to make a career in that field, possibly in Judicial office eventually the blog demonstrates an incredible lack of good sense, tact and appreciation of the likely impact of the comments. For these latter reasons alone I wouldn't want this person ever representing my interests.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:07:14 +0000

Not that anyone will notice this on the 25th page of comments but everyone seems to be missing the bigger point – it doesn't matter. You all are talking about the value of a human life being based on its genes. Its not.Generalizing about the relative values of large groups of humans is irrelevant. How you interact with the individuals you come into contact with in the course of going about your life is the only thing that matters. Predetermining those interactions based on the ethnicity of the individual in question at any given moment leads to less favorable outcomes. period.

By: An_observer

An_observer — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:30:53 +0000

So “nurture” is the only causal factor in the disproportionate dominance in certain professional sports (e.g., NBA, NFL) of individuals identified with African-origin genetic populations?

By: Dream

Dream — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:51:25 +0000

Here's some quotes and studies I've come across, whilst reading on this subject:

"Joseph Graves argues that in [his] study the people sampled were from regions separated by large distances such as South African Bantu and Russians. He argues that if more people came from the regions that bridge the continents results may have been different. Examples such as Armenians would cluster both with Asia and Europe. Somalians or Yemenites may cluster both with Africa and Asia."

"Nicholas Wade, who often cites the work of clusters in articles for the New York Times, says that even if individuals can be assigned to continent of origin based on their genotype (genes), this is not an indication of phenotype. This is because the SNPs used in the clustering study are selectively neutral i.e. stretches of Junk DNA that have no known function. Since they do not code for any protein or have regulatory function, mutations can occur without interfering in normal cell function. Over time these mutations can accumulate much quicker in local populations and thus they can be used to identify continent of origin. Therefore these SNPS that can be used to differentiate continental populations are not known to influence intelligence, behavior, susceptibility to disease or ability in sports. "

http://paa2006.princeton.edu/download.aspx?subm

http://minority-health.pitt.edu/archive/0000051...

http://www.springerlink.com/content/c7542mt2448...

http://www.psych.illinois.edu/%7Ebroberts/Neiss...

By: Dream

Dream — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:47:36 +0000

LOL! I see what you did….Classic Chappelle skit.