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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8724833" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>Extremely unlikely to do so. Tweet has said something in a foolish way, which has gotten him labelled as a racist. If the poster is unwilling to even look at a longer-than-a-tweet statement because they are convinced that nothing else Tweet will say is anything but well-heeled bigotry, explaining the actual scientific information and medical concerns that are relevant to human ethnic groups is unlikely to do anything but get you labelled as a defender of someone already seen as an enemy.</p><p></p><p>I, personally, have had to deal with some of this stuff recently in my own life. Someone I am closely related to has recently been diagnosed with cancer. That person will need a bone marrow transplant, and I am one of the primary potential donor options (as the bone marrow donor list does not have a superior match, though I need to have my blood tested to see if I am a strong enough match myself.) Having done the research on what is required of me and what will happen to my relative, I have learned a lot. One of the things I have learned is that <a href="https://bethematch.org/transplant-basics/matching-patients-with-donors/how-does-a-patients-ethnic-background-affect-matching/" target="_blank">ethnic origin is highly significant for matching someone's human leukocyte antigens</a> (the "tags" which identify living cells as being part of you rather than foreign material.) Ethnic origin is highly correlated with increased presence of certain HLAs and decreased presence of others, meaning it is (much) less likely that you'll find a good donor match from someone whose ethnicity doesn't match your own. This is extremely important because it means you will save more lives if you get donor information from a wide variety of ethnicities. Of course, since I am a close relative of the patient in question, we necessarily share a lot of our genes and our ethnic origins, and that makes our HLAs more likely to be similar. But the donor database does collect information about ethnicity and specifically seeks out more donors of non-white ethnic groups, particularly African-Americans in this case, in order to increase the odds that a patient in need will find a match. That is not racist. It is medically necessary to try to save more lives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8724833, member: 6790260"] Extremely unlikely to do so. Tweet has said something in a foolish way, which has gotten him labelled as a racist. If the poster is unwilling to even look at a longer-than-a-tweet statement because they are convinced that nothing else Tweet will say is anything but well-heeled bigotry, explaining the actual scientific information and medical concerns that are relevant to human ethnic groups is unlikely to do anything but get you labelled as a defender of someone already seen as an enemy. I, personally, have had to deal with some of this stuff recently in my own life. Someone I am closely related to has recently been diagnosed with cancer. That person will need a bone marrow transplant, and I am one of the primary potential donor options (as the bone marrow donor list does not have a superior match, though I need to have my blood tested to see if I am a strong enough match myself.) Having done the research on what is required of me and what will happen to my relative, I have learned a lot. One of the things I have learned is that [URL='https://bethematch.org/transplant-basics/matching-patients-with-donors/how-does-a-patients-ethnic-background-affect-matching/']ethnic origin is highly significant for matching someone's human leukocyte antigens[/URL] (the "tags" which identify living cells as being part of you rather than foreign material.) Ethnic origin is highly correlated with increased presence of certain HLAs and decreased presence of others, meaning it is (much) less likely that you'll find a good donor match from someone whose ethnicity doesn't match your own. This is extremely important because it means you will save more lives if you get donor information from a wide variety of ethnicities. Of course, since I am a close relative of the patient in question, we necessarily share a lot of our genes and our ethnic origins, and that makes our HLAs more likely to be similar. But the donor database does collect information about ethnicity and specifically seeks out more donors of non-white ethnic groups, particularly African-Americans in this case, in order to increase the odds that a patient in need will find a match. That is not racist. It is medically necessary to try to save more lives. [/QUOTE]
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