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On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:00:34 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:03:08 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>> rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:33:46 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> And besides, “race” is not a scientific concept.
>>>>
>>>> Then what, exactly, is affirmative action, reparations, and so forth
>>>> based on?
>>> 
>>> Uh, Lawrence merely noted it is not a scientific concept.
>>> 
>>> It's just a rough grouping of people by various characterstics.
>>> 
>>> Race depends on who is doing the categorizing.
>>
>> Thank you for the non-answer.
> 
>     "Then what, exactly, is affirmative action, reparations, and so
>     forth based on?"
> 
> Thank you for the unanswerable question.

So, since 1965, the US government has singled out classes of people for 
preferential treatment with no objective criteria? Understood. The 
Communists had their nomenklatura, the US has its special snowflakes.

I've noticed the Kiwi rapidly dropped the thread leaving his left hand man 
to continue it.