re: #139 Fozzie Bear

It’s not racist to say that my pasty Irish ass wouldn’t survive a year in the Sahara desert.

Are you sure? Suppose I am a personnel officer in the State Dept. If I assign White Boy to, say, Burkina Faso he could come down with malaria in a few months, whereas if I assign an African-American with SCA he’ll almost certainly stay healthy for the duration of his tour. But don’t State Dept. policies forbid this sort of racial choice, even if it has a sound physiological basis to it?