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No, there is just history to the word you might not know, some extra meaning. Race fundamentally refers to the idea that there are different kinds of people. Wh
by burnished 5y ago
No, there is just history to the word you might not know, some extra meaning. Race fundamentally refers to the idea that there are different kinds of people. Which is why 'interbreeding' comes up, because some people used to believe that a black person and a white person having a child was more like crossing a horse and a donkey than say a person with light hair and a person with dark hair.
There is some real ugly history here.
- leephillips 5y agoNo kidding?
- burnished 5y agoDead serious.
- lliamander 5y agoThat's not really a good argument for the thesis that "there are no human races in the biological sense". Even if there were misconceptions embedded into the definition of the word "race", that doesn't mean there's no underlying biological reality to the differences between human populations that are identified by categories of race.
- burnished 5y agoNobody has lost sight of genetic differences across populations. I don't know why you are bringing that up. But, there are no human 'races' in the biological sense. At best it makes you sound like you're discussing the politics in your Tolkien fanfiction. It is purely a social construct.
- lliamander 5y ago> Nobody has lost sight of genetic differences across populations. I don't know why you are bringing that up. Listen, I'm not saying self-identified race and genetic or ancestral population are the same thing, but there are strong correlations. Perhaps you can clarify how the claim "there is no biological basis for race" makes sense in light of this fact? > It is purely a social construct. Something being a "social construct" does not mean it is purely arbitrary.