“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about research or merit.”

Re:“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about r... by ZeroGravitas on Friday February 18, 2022 @04:24AM (#30383737)

Scientifically, "Black" is probably less of a race than "Hispanic" in a global context, possibly that's reversed if you focus just on USA though.

And neither are really races as science says were all the human race, just if you were going to say genetic similarity is 'race' that would be the case because of the vast diversity in African genetics that happen to have dark skin (which isnt even necessary to be 'black' in the usa.)

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Re:“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about r... by snicker7 on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:04AM (#30385211)

Race is a social construct invented by colonizers (whites) as a way to categorize and other-ize everyone else. It has no biological or ethnic or cultural meaning. Race is not an inherent thing, but a complex relationship between groups of people with unequal power and privileges.

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Re:“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about r... by theandrewbailey on Friday February 18, 2022 @11:04AM (#30387441)

What about the non-white people who distinguish between themselves and other non-white people? Are they suddenly white?

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Re:“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about r... by dekhn on Friday February 18, 2022 @11:11AM (#30387529)

No, that's not what he's saying.

Put in a scientific context, it's correct to say that people whose genetic history is derived entirely from african ancestors are biologically distinct from people whose ancestor left africa a long time ago and then evolved in the regions they resided for long periods. We see this from genomic sequences as well as visible phenotypes (which is what most racial classifications are based on).

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