Christopher Hitchens Dispenses The Conventional Wisdom On Race
01/18/2008
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In the Wall Street Journal, the Hitch asserts:

"The enormous advances in genome studies have effectively discredited the whole idea of "race" as a means of categorizing humans. And however ethnicity may be defined or subdivided, it is utterly unscientific and retrograde to confuse it with color. The number of subjective definitions of "racist" is almost infinite but the only objective definition of the word is "one who believes that there are human races.""

Obviously, Hitchens is an ignoramus about genome studies. More interesting, though, is the lack of self-awareness that political correctness inculcates! Hitchens is America's most famous atheist, yet his entire life was turned inside out—to the point that he now drops by synagogues—when he discovered his mother was part-Jewish.

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