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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/
Comment by cramert at 30/06/2020 at 04:49 UTC
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That article was interesting! I appreciated a lot of the insights-- thanks for sharing.
I think, though, that it glosses over an important point in the argument that race is socially constructed: the fact that the definitions of races are mutable, and the lines between them move around. These changes are due to social patterns. For instance, who is considered "white" has changed throughout history, and mixed race individuals are frequently grouped with one race or another, or sometimes classed in their own category altogether.
"Socially constructed" doesn't mean "not real", it means "defined by society". Language, for example, is socially constructed, but no one would argue that it doesn't exist.