BringBackOrton

Genetic testing is expensive. A single study with genetic analysis of 95 people is better than none.

As much as I'm inclined to believe a professor of psychology in these matters, I actually like to read primary literature to form opinions based on the evidence. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1981.tb04858.x/full https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/Journal/alcalc/32/2/10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a008246/2/32-2-129.pdf?Expires=1509238054&Signature=Q9BF50aq7xGy41C9QFAceYg5q7fHU99sGsHl26dJQJg0~uLZ33MOHMm78XF0N0xIsa-LrvhLxtfegxzsv8dzf-NKfI7jNS0f0Gcj4g8ByLthCxGZ0afBCMJQ5qqMwSAo7HXz~vgWBo45hK98aqcfKIukdjZKqQgHR2CfzxUa4N5-hZ~v30Ye1iNWnt4LYEVguruja8yaWkRmo19VKOoq6vceYpTM6BxTwVUfBGNMrTGS-j0F4K0STQDeF0rZhKV3X3G5gCFgk-83kwzOYC-Y4HU6F~ULNvvjOqG~J3JJN6JNrVQkfscNZCNG2u9gl9KmvGkC-fzPV7pusuW8Sqo60A__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIUCZBIA4LVPAVW3Q https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00197271?LI=true https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC303676/

"In fact, there’s no evidence that Native Americans are more biologically susceptible to substance use disorders than any other group, says Joseph Gone, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan." Are you reading the links you keep spamming or?

I actually said it's not racist. And while we can all pretend that McNair wasn't praising the noble history and culture of the American Natives both before and after he made an off the cuff remark with humorous intent, that's not true either.

Those aren't the same thing, as your links corroborate. They can't metabolize alcohol as fast. That doesn't make them alcoholics. That makes them not as tolerant to alcohol. They get drunk faster and/or experience worst side effects. That's what "hold your liquor" means.

I'm not talking about them "being alcoholics."

Not more likely to what?

And when discussing population genetics, in which thousands and thousands of generations of a population fails to cultivate that gene, it results in a prevalence of alcohol intolerance in that population. It's no different than any other gene. It's no different than the Irish having a higher prevalence of red hair and green eye folks. It's not racist, because nature isn't racist.

No. ""We have identified two genes that protect against heavy drinking, and these are particularly prevalent among Asians," Li says. "We have shown that Native Americans, who have a high rate of alcoholism, do not have these protective genes. The one that is particularly effective is a mutation of the gene for the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase, which plays a major role in metabolizing alcohol. The mutation is found very frequently in Chinese and Japanese populations but is less common among other Asian groups, including Koreans, the Malayo-Polynesian group, and others native to the Pacific Rim. "We've also looked at Euro-Americans, Native Americans, and Eskimos, and they don't have that gene mutation," says Li. Thus, incidentally, the study of genetic mutations and alcoholism links native North-American populations to central Asian ancestors, not to those from China and Japan." http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v17n3/p18.html Facts aren't racist. They're just facts.

You know it's a scientific fact that folks of Native American descent can't tolerate alcohol as well as Europeans, right?

Was that racist?

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Why do you associate the word prison with black people, racist?

I am large; I contain multitudes.

This is extremely racist, hypocritical and gross.

When the world turns to a 38 year old white Bills fan to pick his brain about how a 25 year old black superstar athlete feels, you know you're in trouble.

I wonder if white guys on the internet could stop telling us how black people think.

Oh come on! Are you being serious?

Give a mouse a cookie. Constant greivance culture.

Except you are entitled to a starting QB job.

Why not? If he apologized for it being something stupid, that'd be one thing. We got crickets, NoSaint. We don't even know if he thinks it was a mistake. Not really.

I think that's making excuses for bad behavior. 1 page ago, the narrative was Kaep is a misunderstood, thoughtful, intelligent pariah.. Now he's an immature 20-something? And a year removed from the incident and no apology? No contrition? When is he gonna mature? Why should I pay attention to a guy who fluctuates between "immature and juvenile" and "thoughtful and intelligent" at the drop of a hat, depending on what outrageous thing he does next?

Why did he wear the cop pig socks?

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I think that's a fair question. It makes me angry because I don't believe Colin Kaepernick is genuine. Maybe he started his whole kneeling movement from a good place. I don't know. But the other stuff, the Castro stuff, the socks with cops' faces as pigs, it went from "an athlete trying to do something good" to "an athlete trying to grab headlines." You ask me why it bothers me? It bothers me just like Kathy Griffin's stunt bothered me. It smacks of opportunistic "You Won't Believe What Kaepernick Did Next" BS. I don't think he's interested in making any real progress, like so many other people in the world. He's "raising awareness" the same one millions of folks do on Twitter. A whole lot of talk, air time, and not a single thing accomplished.