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Re:“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about r... by spacechild1 on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:40AM (#30386245)
There are no human races. The very practice of talking about human races as if they exist is itself already racist. It always boggles my mind how talking about race seems to be completely normal and acceptable in the US...
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Re:“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about r... by d_tr on Friday February 18, 2022 @10:12AM (#30386717)
> ... is itself already racist.

Does it not depend on the intent? The word "racism" implies some kind of bad intent if I am not mistaken. You might have a useless or uninformed piece of conversation around race (whatever the word "race" is supposed to mean; I really do not exactly know nor do I care) but this does not imply that there is racism involved.

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Re:“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about r... by spacechild1 on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:38AM (#30396339)
The problem is that using the term “race“ affirmatively legitimizes the concept of human race. Not only does it have no basis in reality, it can be extremely harmful, as history has shown.
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