Comments on: Turns out I’m a white guy

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:58:28 +0000

I’m sure someone will eventually blog the details, but it is true that the Sbings do not represent the ethnico-racial (race is not real, so I hesitate to use the word) or gendero-sexual mix of a) humans on Earth, or b) Humans in the various countries we represent. On the other hand, neither does science.I suspect that if you broke it down by area of study (math, bio, etc.) that we represent the proportions that exist in the wild, with in some cases slightly more of one category or another, but in most cases, too small a sample to be sure.

By: Jason B

Jason B — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:46:39 +0000

I just love how it’s automatically framed as a racist conspiracy. Since I don’t know what half of the bloggers I read look like anyway and barely have an inkling of their gender, why should I care one way or another about their race? I’m interested in finding out interesting things about the world I inhabit, and I really could care less what the person looks like. *thoughtful pause* Unless, of course, they’re hot.Isn’t it just as likely that the science bloggers of Asian or recent African descent just might be blogging elsewhere?

By: Jason Failes

Jason Failes — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:44:34 +0000

What’s his/her point with this page? Be less white? We’re trying, we’re trying, but summer is still so far away!

By: razib

razib — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:07:20 +0000

katz are white people. ergo, the confusion. (if you shave a kat, you know what i’m saying).

By: the real cmf

the real cmf — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:11:15 +0000

Here’s a great blog–and the likely culprit for the engineered scandal above. If those Aryans only knew from whence they came…;-)Greg, you might like this post from that blog–for the homeschoolers:http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/17-gifted-children/

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:48:34 +0000

Aha, Razib pwned that stalker by hiding his duskyness (Razib’s, that is) behind his cat. I guess Razib figured the gray of the cat fur would make his skin look whiter in comparison, and it worked to fool at least this one moron. Of course, to really fool everyone besides the stalker jerk into thinking he was white, Razib really needed to hide behind his black cat, not the gray one…Greater color contrast, you see.

By: IanR

IanR — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:44:36 +0000

Razib is whiter than you? Really? More “Aryan”, sure…Bangladeshis are probably more Aryan than say, white people…but whiter? I didn’t pick that up from your pix.I need a banner that says “non-white blogger”

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:22:39 +0000

The ‘A’ in GLBTA is “Allies”A google page is free? Oh. Whatever.I’m pretty sure Razib is whiter than I am.

By: postdiluvian

postdiluvian — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:14:43 +0000

I think it’s free to have a googlepages page.

By: the real cmf

the real cmf — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:08:10 +0000

Don’t forget the “conflict frame”–or “engineered scandal”…I wonder what Razib would think of this post;-)And who are the “A’s”? I thought Oakland was only known for the Black Panthers…