Subj : Re: race
To   : Arelor
From : Boraxman
Date : Thu May 22 2025 08:25 am

-=> Arelor wrote to jimmylogan <=-

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Ar>   Re: race
Ar>   By: jimmylogan to Gamgee on
Ar> Tue May 20 2025 08:38 pm

> Biologically, you are right: humans are all one species: Homo sapiens.
> Scientifically, race is often considered a social construct with no
> significant biological basis. The Human Genome Project confirmed we
> are over 99.9% genetically identical across all so-called races.
>

Ar> Race might be a social contruct with no significant biological basis,
Ar> but let me tell you nobody will mistake a throughbred for a
Ar> hispano-breton horse. And while we are at that, nobody will take a
Ar> hispano-breton to a race, but they will have her pull a cart instead of
Ar> the throughbred any day.

Ar> But even the idea that race lacks biological basis is thin because the
Ar> origins of people can be traced via biological markers - that is the
Ar> reason why we know gypsies come from India, for example, because they
Ar> are sufficiently distinct from other groups that their traits can be
Ar> identified. And there are even hints that homo sapiens don't come from
Ar> a single ancestor either but from a number of family trees that evolved
Ar> separatedly.

If I tell you "Robert is Black, Harrison is White and Li is Asian", and then I
give you a photo of three men, people WILL be able to tell who is who just
from
those descriptors alone.  Even if I photoshop everyone to have the same skin
colour, you'll still be able to tell.

This means that race exists.  When people select actors for an advertisement,
for "Diversity", they select on race.

You cannot then argue it does not exist, when people use racial signifiers
ROUTINELY and SUCCESSFULLY to categorise people.

It is intellectually dishonest to come up with a bullshit "study" that says
that
that thing that people use all the time, and understand, isn't actually
meaingful in anyway.


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