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Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images by pessimizer on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:32PM (#28527222)
I admire the confidence of someone who can say in the same paragraph that there are 24 different definitions (constructions) of "species," then deny that they are a social construct at all.
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Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images by naasking on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:40PM (#28527329)
I fundamentally disagree with a definition of "social construct" that would have to exclude species as a meaningful category.

Edit: but even if I did agree with the definition, if "race" is as useful a category as "species" despite being socially constructed, all of the people calling race a social construct have utterly failed to make the case that we should stop using it.

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