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Me: Blue and Red are different colors. There is a branch of physics called optics that deals with it. You: But what about Brown - is it blue or red? I guess yo
by omonra 13y ago
Me: Blue and Red are different colors. There is a branch of physics called optics that deals with it.
You: But what about Brown - is it blue or red? I guess you can't answer, therefore colors don't exist and are instead social constructs.
- einhverfr 13y agoBut the point is: Society unambiguously recognizes Obama as black. Biology does not. Therefore if you say society is wrong, you are just saying the social construct of race is wrong, and reinforcing the idea that race in our society is socially constructed and independent of any biological idea you can put forward. The larger question would be for shades that we might accept are "red" but don't necessarily meet the wavelength definition. Additionally human populations are not like wavelengths in that they are dynamically defined. You can find all sorts of populations with identifiable genetic similarities. However, we construct race differently than that. Arguing that society is biologically incorrect in a definition of race is just saying that the social construct is unmoored from the biology.