sexist
sexist
Posted Oct 3, 2007 3:01 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413)In reply to: sexist by bk
Parent article: To Sir, with Love: How To Get More Women Involved in Open Source (O'ReillyNet)
Regarding your racism "equivalence" troll, there are people who are recognized as caucasian by skin-tone, but yet who self-identify as african-american because their entire family is african-american, but via the fun of recessive or unusual genetics are light-skinned.
They are socialized, as much as such a term can apply, as african-american and their self-identity derives from this.
As for genetics, the border of the so-called races is so broad and the variation within supposedly clear groups is so great that from a statistical perspective races mostly do not exist genetically.
We cannot therefore determine that a person is "black" reliably from either DNA sequencing nor from their skintone. Therefore what system of classification (should we need one!) would you propose other than asking them and believing the answer?