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New Racism
libfemme ( 10/10/2003, 05:17:27 )We are watching a new prejudice being created. The slandering of people who will be born with cloning is as intolerable as racism or sexism. One's origins should not be used againt one. Gregory Pence and Michael A. Goldman said it better than I could in a 2000 symposium:"When we watch the film Snow Falling on Cedars, we like to think that we would have defended persecuted Japanese-Americans. Had we lived in Alabama in Martin Luther King Jr.'s time, we like to think we would have marched with him to end racial segregation. Fighting prejudice is easy over a battle long won.Prejudice surrounds discussions of originating a person by cloning, and few people have risen to fight it. Consider the many commentators who talk about "whether the clone" would be mistreated. "Clone" is so pejorative that its very use indicates question-begging attitudes, like the introduction of a report about equal rights for women that begins, "The chicks say...."Most objections to human cloning do not focus on possible physical harm to the new child but instead raise psychological, religious, social and ethical objections, where prejudice and ignorance are seen.The Report on Cloning by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, or NBAC, mentioned that a "massive majority" of Americans fear human cloning. Other critics say that "almost everybody" thinks it's a bad idea and that opinion polls are "nine to one" against cloning.This is just the ad populum fallacy. Most people wanted to inter Japanese-Americans during World War II, most Americans accepted segregation before the civil-rights movement, and too many people today still think that it's bad to be gay or lesbian. Most people 20 years ago feared "test-tube babies" and "genetic-engineering therapy" before these were understood...."They go on to explain why clones would not be "identical" in all aspects and why they should not be feared.
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