re: #148 Solomon2

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?

In other words assign someone for the physical characteristics rather than their qualifications? What next hiring only white people for Arctic expeditions?