4 ms·
> That there is a genetically distinct haplotype group that corresponds to many folk that share these traits with me, is sufficient This is what race means. Yo
by wyager 4y ago
> That there is a genetically distinct haplotype group that corresponds to many folk that share these traits with me, is sufficient
This is what race means. You are taking the same referent and giving it a different designator.
- freejazz 4y agoIf that's the case I'm sure you can provide a link to a dictionary stating as much. In reality, such haplotype groups, when they even exist, do not correlate with what people call "race".
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- wyager 4y agoYou mean one of the politically activist dictionaries like Webster, which have lately frequently changed the definition of words like "racism"? I'm sure if it becomes an issue they'll change their definition of "race" too, if they haven't already. And sure, not all races correspond directly to a specific HG, but all races have clear genetic differences which can be identified and classified purely mechanically. Multi-locus fixation clustering is an example of one such mechanical procedure. Unsupervised, something like k-means will generate racial groups equivalent to the ones humans come up with intuitively. In your case, the HG in question obviously corresponds to one such cluster.
- freejazz 4y agoIt was your choice of dictionary! No need to respond like that.
- wyager 4y agoI read your comment as a snarky version of "read a dictionary" - apologies if that was not the intended meaning.
- freejazz 4y agoWell I don't think you'd find a dictionary that ever used that definition, because it's not the definition. And it has nothing to do with your allegation that dictionaries are woke and changing.