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More importantly, can a Plethysmograph be hooked up to an e-meter to find out if an alien ghost is gay?

On topic, the only protected classes for anything should be children, the elderly and the disabled. They are undeniably the weakest members of society.

BeAfraid wrote:


I have seen gay guys try to force themselves to have sex with women without being able to, and vice-versa, seen straight guys try to force sex with other guys to no effect.

Shooting people.

Watching multiple people attempt to have sex.

You've lived quite the life.

Initial Initial.

BeAfraid wrote:
There is no such thing as "Race" the way most people think of it.

It is an outdated, 19th-Century concept which modern biology and genetics has been shown to be based in nothing more than European (Specifically English, in this case, but the Germans obviously jumped on that bandwagon) attitudes of "Racial Superiority" that arose in the 19th Century during the Colonial Period, and continuing from earlier ages, used to justify anti-semitism.

I agree with you, and I'm quite familiar with the pre-colonial and colonial development of the concept of race, and the problems involved.

That doesn't mean that race (however the term is used) and ethnicity are the same thing. Whether race is being used as a pseudoscientific term, or if it is being used simply as an analog for "skin color," either way it is still not the same thing as ethnicity, and there are a large number of ethnic groups that people identify as.