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An Israeli missile has hit Iran, two US officials have told the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

Iranian state media is reporting that flights have been suspended over several cities, according to Associated Press.

Iran has been on high alert after Israel said it would respond to an Iranian attack against it on Saturday night

    • ToastedPlanetEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Typically when people are saying Jews are a race, they referring to the idea that Jews are not White, as in they cannot be White. Jews can be White, but they can also be Black, Native American or Hispanic. Jews are not in a racial category that excludes them from being part of these groups. That’s what I was referring to when I wrote race.

      That’s not really the main point, I was agreeing with the person I responding to and adding some clarification. It seemed to have distracted from the issue at hand.

      Killing people isn’t how we stop the spread of fascism in the modern day. We need to spread information, for example, that fascism is a self-destructive ideology that will destroy hundreds of millions of lives and that the Republican Party is controlled by fascists. I think most people know that on lemmy, but there are plenty of people who will check into politics in the months leading up to the election and form their opinions then. A misconception I see on lemmy is that some people assume we can defeat fascism with guns alone. That isn’t going to cut it. We have to reach more people with true information before fascists reach them with misinformation. Once a person forms an opinion they are unlikely to discard that opinion when presented with new information in the short term. That short term can easily last until the election, so these months leading up to the election are crucial. edit: capitalization

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        By Alan Templeton.

        According to Templeton’s research, perceived differences in races are more related to cultural perceptions and biases than any underlying genetic reality.[5] For example, Templeton’s statistical analysis of the human genome shows that much greater genetic diversity exists between populations of chimpanzees than humans from different parts of the world.[3]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Templeton

        Do you think maybe you’re misunderstanding him?

        • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          It think it’s debatable about how you define Races, but it’s also quite obvious that biological races exist. There are specific differences in the physical biology that separate the races, and common traits among them that identify them as part of the group. Skin color, hair type, bone structure, genetic predisposition to certain diseases, etc. Physical traits are passed from the parents to the children, and when the parents are of different races we get blending of the characteristics and so on. Some Native Americans even have different kinds of teeth than European-Caucasian descended folks do.

          Basically it’s not something you can choose or change, it’s an immutable biological set of characteristics. I don’t know what “race” the Jews in Israel are exactly but I suspect it depends a lot on the region their ancestors are from. Many of them might even be the same “race” as Palestinians.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            6·
            8 months ago

            What’s the race here, African or Melanesian? And if it’s the same race, why are they so separated geographically?

            • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              I don’t know, just some mixture of African and Mongolian would be my guess. It would be more appropriate to ask the people in that picture IMO.

                • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  8 months ago

                  So what? I said I don’t know already. Do you want to keep on all day about this?

                  Go ahead and just believe whatever you want about all this, you will do that regardless of what I say.

                  Likewise there’s nothing you can say that would change the facts of reality that I’ve already stated.

                  • stringere@leminal.spaceEnglish
                    2·
                    8 months ago

                    the facts of reality that I’ve already stated

                    But you never stated facts or reality.

                    You’re trying to argue that races exist as something other than social constructs.

                    Different Races for humans have no genetic or biological basis. Period.

                    Blonde is not a race. Brown eyed is not a race. Brown skin is not a race. And on and on

          • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            No, and you fundamentally misunderstand biology, genetics, and race.

            In essence, per Robert Saplosky, race is a cultural construct, not a genetic or biological one. He has his entire Stanford lecture on human behavior including human genetics on YouTube. He also has several books explaining this. Here’s a link to a summary video: https://youtu.be/YVT5iIXdjek?si=jXKvfd3fUEdQcjMx

            Just because you can reactively type people into races, doesn’t make race a real biological phenomenon. There are plenty of races that look like others, plenty of admixture that ruins your theories. Sickle cell anemia can exist in white people (people who appear to look white) who have black ancestry, but you wouldn’t know they have either sickle cell or black ancestry from looking at them. Because race ISNT genetics. There are people within the same family who are different races, one who is lighter and one who is darker, etc. And melanin production is only one small component of the cultural cues we see as someone’s race.

            Again, it’s not biological and no real scientist would think that.

      • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        From your source:

        Humans have much genetic diversity, but the vast majority of this diversity reflects individual uniqueness and not race.

        And

        The question of the existence of human “races” now becomes the question of the existence of human subspecies.

        … One definition regards races as geographically circumscribed populations within a species that have sharp boundaries that separate them from the remainder of the species (Smith, Chiszar, & Montanucci, 1997).

        … A second definition defines races as distinct evolutionary lineages within a species. An evolutionary lineage is a population of organisms characterized by a continuous line of descent such that the individuals in the population at any given time are connected by ancestor/descendent relationships.

        And

        It is critical to note that genetic differentiation alone is insufficient to define a subspecies or race under either of these definitions of race.

        You seem to have linked something that argues and shows the opposite of what you intended there, bud.

        • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Did you miss the whole section with the tree of races, showing the genetic differences in them? Maybe you didn’t make it all the way through?

          • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            8 months ago

            I think you might have just skimmed it. Throughout the paper the authors include examples of “race trees” which they argue have no places in scientific literature because they do not apply to humans.

            I have an idea. Why don’t you quote the section that proves your point. If I can’t rebut you by copying and pasting context from the same paper, you win. Deal?

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Breeds are used to refer to domestic animals where artificial selection was used to exemplify specific traits.

        Are you saying that the traits of different “races” were artificially selected for? Who was doing the selecting?