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This feels like moving the goal posts… and rather silly. Obviously people are dramatically more similar than different. But the concept of race is about those d
by tacitusarc 3y ago
This feels like moving the goal posts… and rather silly. Obviously people are dramatically more similar than different. But the concept of race is about those differences, and seems to be intimately tied to various gene expressions. Of course there isn’t an Asian gene or white gene or black gene, but there are genes that regulate hair color, height, facial structure, eye color, melanin production, etc., and those are what people think of when they think of racial differences. So to say race isn’t genetic seems silly at best.
- famouswaffles 3y agoIt's not about being more similar than different. It's that you literally can't biologically divide people into the categories we divide them into. Two sub-saharan african men might be more genetically apart than one of those men and some White European fellow. In fact, Africa is more genetically diverse than the rest of the world combined. Yet those two Africans are "black" and supposed to be the same "race", separate from the white fellow. If an alien species landed on Earth today, took exhaustive genetic samples of everyone on the planet and did their best to classify us, it wouldn't look anything like our "races". That's the point. Maybe you think that's goalpost moving but it's not.
- tacitusarc 3y agoThis is moving the goal posts. Saying that members of the same racial group can actually be more genetically similar to members of another race has no bearing on whether or not the traits that define racial categories are genetically derived.