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Racism is when people believe falsehoods about genetics and heritability, particularly when they believe that humans form multiple races. It's that simple. We s
by myWindoonn 5y ago
Racism is when people believe falsehoods about genetics and heritability, particularly when they believe that humans form multiple races. It's that simple. We should require sociologists to take an introductory course in molecular biology so that they grok this part of human nature.
Edit: Downvoters should be required to also take a molecular biology course.
- jessaustin 5y agoVery few people care about genetics and heritability with respect to "race". In the spirit of charity I'd like to assume that no one commenting here cares about that.
- myWindoonn 5y agoI have bad news for you, then. Search "white people", "asian people", or "black people" with your search engine of choice, and use syntax like "site:news.ycombinator.com" to limit it to just our community. In the spirit of charity, I'll assume that you haven't done this search, and are blissfully unaware of the racist comments that tend to flow through this site. However, since we're relying on (Gricean) charity, let me point out that you're not following up with the maxim of relevance. The headline and article are centered around the question of the definition of racism, not whether the amount of racism exceeds some particular benchmark.
- jessaustin 5y agoThe racism under discussion here concerns social categories, not biological ones. That someone could in good faith fail to notice this strains credulity.
- dqpb 5y agoThat just reinforces how meaningless the concept is.