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It is good faith. Words are a social construct. We as a society have constructed them to categorize the world around us, to describe things and actions. When y
by IanDrake 8y ago
It is good faith. Words are a social construct. We as a society have constructed them to categorize the world around us, to describe things and actions.
When you say race is a social construct because we may visually ascribe a person wrongly to a race seems pointless in an era of dna tests. The possibility of being factually wrong doesn’t suddenly make something a social construct.
If I see bear cub from a distance and then find out it was actually a dog, it doesn’t mean I should shrug and say that a bear and a dog are social constructs, so I wasn’t wrong because these distinctions are fluid based on the social norms of our day.
Why you seem to deny that science can blindly determine your ancestral origins (and thus race) with astonishing accuracy is beyond me.