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"eye color is a social construct" and "the importance of eye color is a social construct" are two completely separate ideas. OP clearly states '"race" is a soci
by googlryas 8y ago
"eye color is a social construct" and "the importance of eye color is a social construct" are two completely separate ideas. OP clearly states '"race" is a social construct'.
- pjc50 8y agoEye color is a social construct because color is a social construct. The presence of the genes for coloration is the only unambiguous thing, and even then it's vulnerable to all sorts of anomalies in gene expression (heterochromia, chimericism etc)
- googlryas 8y agoColor is not a social construct.
- pdkl95 8y agoYes, it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg
- googlryas 8y agoI thought you might be going there with that. That is how our learning teaches us to classify colors into finite groups(/names). That does not mean that color itself is a social construct.
- Turing_Machine 8y agoRight. Not having specific names for two colors is an entirely different thing from being unable to recognize that one color is different to the other.
- monadgonad 8y ago> "eye color is a social construct" and "the importance of eye color is a social construct" are two completely separate ideas. And that's the point. In ths case, "race" is equivalent to "the importance of eye colour", because "race" is the importance and social meaning we build around certain genetic differences.
- oh_sigh 8y agoIf race is equivalent to the 'importance of eye color', does that mean 'the importance of race' is the 'importance of the importance of race'? Why does race automatically have some kind of value judgement associated with it but eye color does not? Just because people have used it as a standard of other-ness in the past doesn't mean that the qualities have ceased to independently exist.