Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry
by Noseshine on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:56PM
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That's what I said, the word is being used with a different/wider meaning and not with that narrower original meaning.
I doubt the attackers thought of the Polish person as of a different "race" as in the biological meaning of that word. Same thing, shift of meaning of the word.
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Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry
by kafkaesq on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:18PM
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I doubt the attackers thought of the Polish person as of a different "race" as in the biological meaning of that word.
That's the thing -- "race" doesn't really have a biological meaning. If anything it's just a vague suspicion that certain people are inferior or "alien" because of their DNA, the breeding, or simply their cultural upbringing. Of course it's all invented tripe, and biologically speaking it's equally untenable (from a biological point of view) to think of Poles, Anglo-Saxons and Italians as being of different "races" than it to think of Africans or East Asians in those terms.
But racists aren't the smartest bunch, you know, so in fact that's pretty much exactly what they think.
Re:Old Geek Jobs: fighting against ageism in the industry
by Noseshine on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:56PM
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> "race" doesn't really have a biological meaning
And now the meaning of that word has shifted. That is all I said.