Re: DAFN Detection is Possible

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From: Bob LeChevalier
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 04:51

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Outta Sight <outamind@there.net> wrote:
>You are rather obtuse yourself, but at least you admit that you have
>no abilities.  

I have plenty of abilities, but none of them include the ability to
factually identify an undefined and fictional property of a human
being, commonly known as "race".

There is a somewhat-related category, called "racial identity", which
is subjective and self-determined, and changeable with time, and that
is what is most commonly used in census forms and other documents that
accept self-defined "race".  But no one else can factually state
someone's racial identity because of the subjectivity; all one can
state is what identity that person was witnessed to have claimed.  One
person can self-identify as "white" while have many "black" ancestors,
while a sibling or a parent might identify as "black".  Myself - I say
"so what?"

lojbab
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lojbab                                             lojbab@lojban.org
Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
(Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.)
Artificial language Loglan/Lojban:                 http://www.lojban.org

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From: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
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