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Re:'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit... by derevaunseraun on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @08:45PM (#31661873)
> Yet I'm classified as "white", which is absurd and shows that racial groups are absurd, and not even a scientifically acknowledged phenomenon, but just a social construct

Who's doing the classifying? Most of the time it's you checking a box in some application form

If it's just a social construct, theoretically what's stopping you from identifying as a different race? An honor system?

Since there is no legal assignment of race, what's keeping people from just lying?

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Re:'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit... by favorited on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @08:54PM (#31661937)
> If it's just a social construct, theoretically what's stopping you from identifying as a different race?

Because that social construct doesn't involve self-selection. The construct is that society puts people into racial buckets.

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Re:'Old white guy' can move forward with workplace bias suit... by derevaunseraun on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @09:03PM (#31662022)
> The construct is that society puts people into racial buckets.

So let's say you apply for a job somewhere and they ask the race question on the job application. I highly doubt that interviewers are given this information. Who exactly is holding people accountable in this system?

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