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Doesn't need to be inherent to "races". Why wouldn't culture / way of living be the elephant in the room?

• chii 6y ago
  well, you could change your culture/way of living. But you can't change your race. If it turned out that race is indeed a component, with proven confidence and evidence, that indicates financial stability or security, then being the wrong race will cause problems for you. But then on the flip side, if you look at say, athletic selection for a sport like basketball or athletics, you'd find that race is inherently a criteria, because certain races seems to have an inherent advantage (or more correctly, certain races seems to have a _disadvantage). But nobody ever says anything in those cases.
  • spijdar 6y ago
    > if you look at say, athletic selection for a sport like basketball or athletics, you'd find that race is inherently a criteria, because certain races seems to have an inherent advantage (or more correctly, certain races seems to have a _disadvantage). But nobody ever says anything in those cases. I think a charitable explanation for why this is, is sports is pretty much always a voluntary activity, so it's natural to not get as worked up over either implicitly or explicitly favoring a race, compared to, say, doing the same thing in employment or scoring someone's credit, which will almost certainly impact everyone in society involuntarily.
• 8note 6y ago
  "races" is a cultural concept designed to denigrate certain people. Using race captures an obvious group of people by how they've already been discriminated against