Scrotal Pigmentation and Hillary’s Dangerous Allelist Tendencies
What makes monkey scrotums blue? You know you’ve been wondering. John Hawks’ superlative anthroblog has the answer. I believe there is variant causation of testicular azurity* in humans and possibly other higher primates, however.
None of which has anything to do with Hillary Clinton, upon whom John Hawks power-nerds most righteously in another post for her patronizing remarks about racism and genetics.
Specifically, the notion that “the differences in how we look — in our skin color, our eye color, our height — stem from just one-tenth of 1 percent of our genes.” Says Hill:
“I know it seems daunting. We tend to focus a lot on the things that divide us — the things we disagree about — don’t we?” she said. “But in doing so, we fail to take into account a basic scientific truth about who we are.”
Hawks notes that’s one-tenth of 1 percent of nucleotides, which works up to a much larger percentage of differences in genetic coding. Yeah, I knew that. I mean, come on.
Hawks’ money quote:
I disagree with Clinton: the average amount of genetic similarity between people is irrelevant to how we should act toward other people.
Why irrelevant? Well, take the copy number variation as an example. It shows that humans are substantially more genetically different, in terms of nucleotides, than 0.1 percent. Does that mean it’s OK to be a racist now?
… Genetic similarities, whatever they may amount to, are not a reason for moral action.
Read on. Hawks is concerned, with the growth of genetic testing, about the dangerous potential for the rise of allelism.
* The blue monkey scrotum/human testicular azurity portion of this post was not intended as any kind of political commentary, though on reflection is a spot-on analogy for what the Democratic leadership in Congress has been experiencing. No Bill Clinton jokes, please.
Topics: anthronerdism, pols, sex
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:27 am on Friday, June 22, 2007
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June 22nd, 2007 at 1:12 am
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June 22nd, 2007 at 11:53 am
“What makes monkey scrotums blue? ”
Are you calling me a monkey!?!
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I tried all day to find something to say about this post. When you put Hilary Clinton in the same post with blue balls, there just isn’t anything you can say.
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Rebecca, I agree. Except, I will say that I always thought Hillary’s balls were probably blue, not brass.
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 am
“The blue monkey scrotum/human testicular azurity portion of this post was not intended as any kind of political commentary”
Well, it did remind me of some photos at zombietime of aging freaks at a San Francisco “peace” rally grossly inflating their testicles with saline injections.