{"id":6377,"date":"2016-06-09T05:38:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/is-race-a-false-theory-is-it-a-theory-at-all\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T05:38:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T05:38:54","slug":"is-race-a-false-theory-is-it-a-theory-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/is-race-a-false-theory-is-it-a-theory-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Race a False Theory?  Is it a Theory at All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">A strange idea has gained currency recently, namely, that racial differences are invented, that race is a social construct, a theory, indeed a false theory. &#0160;And so we hear&#0160;David Livingstone Smith, a professor of philosophy from the University of New England, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjVspbw95rNAhVW3mMKHQPrCocQFggcMAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Frobert-j-benz%2Frace-illusion-its-all-in-_b_10095430.html&amp;usg=AFQjCNEKVxP1fkAMId_cY1ayVCZrBVrZ5A&amp;bvm=bv.124088155,d.cGc\">asserting<\/a> that &quot;Phenotypic diversity is a fact, but race is a theory.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Malcolm Pollack &#0160;offers <a href=\"http:\/\/malcolmpollack.com\/2016\/06\/05\/round-up-the-usual-suspects\/\">a critique<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange idea has gained currency recently, namely, that racial differences are invented, that race is a social construct, a theory, indeed a false theory. &#0160;And so we hear&#0160;David Livingstone Smith, a professor of philosophy from the University of New England, asserting that &quot;Phenotypic diversity is a fact, but race is a theory.&quot; Malcolm Pollack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/is-race-a-false-theory-is-it-a-theory-at-all\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Race a False Theory?  Is it a Theory at All?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}