Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan...
by DuskStar on Sunday September 08, 2019 @03:10PM
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What terms would you prefer to use to describe different clusters of phenotypes? Or do you deny the existence of different clusters of phenotypes in humans?
It doesn't have to be "race", since that's a really loaded word. "Ancestry" and "heritage" seem to be more popular modern equivalents. But do we really use either of those differently than people 100 years ago would have used "race", or are we just powering down the euphemism treadmill?
I really think the main problem in this comment chain is that we're using different definitions and talking past each other.
It doesn't have to be "race", since that's a really loaded word. "Ancestry" and "heritage" seem to be more popular modern equivalents. But do we really use either of those differently than people 100 years ago would have used "race", or are we just powering down the euphemism treadmill?
I really think the main problem in this comment chain is that we're using different definitions and talking past each other.