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Re:Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed? by pjc50 on Monday September 10, 2018 @06:17AM (#17950691)
Eye color is a social construct because color is a social construct.

The presence of the genes for coloration is the only unambiguous thing, and even then it's vulnerable to all sorts of anomalies in gene expression (heterochromia, chimericism etc)

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Re:Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed? by googlryas on Monday September 10, 2018 @06:33AM (#17950744)
Color is not a social construct.
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Re:Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed? by pdkl95 on Monday September 10, 2018 @06:39AM (#17950775)
Yes, it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqZR3pqMjg

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Re:Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed? by googlryas on Monday September 10, 2018 @06:55AM (#17950829)
I thought you might be going there with that. That is how our learning teaches us to classify colors into finite groups(/names). That does not mean that color itself is a social construct.
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Re:Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed? by Turing_Machine on Monday September 10, 2018 @08:52AM (#17951414)
Right. Not having specific names for two colors is an entirely different thing from being unable to recognize that one color is different to the other.
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