ok is there actually a good argument for "race is a lie" or have I been straining my brain trying to understand this in vain?
Like, they say there's no racial categories, but... i got a DNA test which puts me into clear categories...
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dna tests aren’t identifying your race, they’re identifying genetic clusters that belong to certain ethnicities and then race is applied to that. it’s like looking at a color and calling it warm because it’s red. red is the actual property, but you know it correlates to warm.
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The restricted subset of multi-dimensional genetic space that is observable by humans through sensory input, and the categorized into discrete chunks, where the categorization reflects additional attributes, such as resource constraints, political systems, and other terms.
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race is just arbitrary groupings made up to support the social structure during the enlightenment. it started with (basically) white, black, and asian. whites were trading partners (including arabic peoples), blacks were slaves and colonized, asians had their own world.
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Race is when two or more people compete to finish a task first.
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it goes like this: family<clan<tribe<ethnicity<race. each is a human grouping thats partially inbred. a race is a collection of related ethnicities that gets fuzzy on the geographic edges. denying race is denying human family
As a person who studies animals in general, race to me is pretty much like breeds in cats and dogs. Same species, but have certain features that belong to them because of their environment and selection. Only significant in physical expression and little physiology. Can be mixed.
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It’s a conjured intersubjective construct that changes all the time. Racecraft is an excellent book on this.
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