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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Who's saying it and what do they mean?
I said something similar in college when I realised I had more in common with the (American) black students than my (Russian) TA, despite the fact that we were both "white".
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I often have found I have more in common with men than I do with women, but 'gender/sex' still seems like a really salient category here
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Fair.
How you group people is... not arbitrary, but a matter of choice. Different groupings reveal different similarities and differences.
No grouping is more true than any other, but some may be more useful.
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Statistics. Men are taller than women, but the tallest women are taller than 99.999% of men. True for every axis of distinction between groups. A Black American is likely to have many more genes in common with a Scot than a Ghanian.
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