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I know you're being facetious, but in many ways race really is a social construct. Of course people have different genetic backgrounds, but the way society does it is artificial. The peoples of Africa are more genetically diverse than the rest of the world combined. Genetically, they are further from each other than whites are from asians, yet we call them all one "race". Scientists have repeatedly said that there is no scientifically meaningful categorization as race.
Comment by _Mellex_ at 30/06/2020 at 03:46 UTC*
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Scientists have repeatedly said that there is no scientifically meaningful categorization as race.
I love when people just throw around "scientists have said" like it means anything lol
Try telling doctors and physical anthropologists that race is completely meaningless. Just because race isn't used as a taxonomic category[1] (which is debatable) doesn't mean race doesn't have other meaningful and ***useful*** definitions.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewontin%27s_Fallacy
https://alexsheremet.com/war-and-words-why-race-is-not-a-social-construct/