Race does not exist according to geneticists. So yeah it's a social construct and we are being categorized/constructed and some of us have more privilege and more power than others. It doesn't mean the construction of race doesn't exist though. Is that really hard to understand?
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If race is a social construct, then white people have no inherent shared characteristics, and so demonising them is idiotic.
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I don't see the contradiction tbh
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Social constructivism stands in opposition to *biological* realism.
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People who call themselves post-anything mught be the most backward, out of date people of anyone.
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Think we must at cross purposes. Identification doesn’t require any objective truth to be effective.
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Social constructivism is a social construct.
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Or alternatively ‘white people benefit from the social construction of race’. Hardly controversial.
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Well the slave trade did a pretty effective job of it.
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