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This is somewhat tangential to the article, but I've written about this previously. I think a big first step would be to stop talking about race for different s
by cycomanic 6y ago
This is somewhat tangential to the article, but I've written about this previously. I think a big first step would be to stop talking about race for different skin colours.
I'm always surprised that "race" is so commonly adopted in conversations even by campaigners against racism, as a European I always cringe. The term implies a genetic difference where there isn't any and thus contributes to systematic racism/discrimination IMO, words do matter.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoWell, there’s at least gotta be the genetic difference that makes black people’s skin black, or Asian people’s eyes narrower. For a biologist, it probably makes sense. In common situations though I agree race is kind of a “strong word” to describe this. How do you avoid it?
- hayez1 6y agoThere IS a genetic difference between races though. Diseases cluster in different races. Different races have different phenotypes. Different races have different brain sizes (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016028960200137X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...). You people are just as bad as the creationists who think the world is 6000 years old. Of course different groups who have been isolated from each other for thousands of years are going to have some micro-evolutionary divergence. THAT IS BASIC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY! If an 8 year old can understand it, why can't you?