Re:National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using...
by dekhn on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:10AM
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Rather than shouting loudly on the internet, I recommend going and reading a bit more about genetic history. There are much more accurate scientific terms for eveyrthing you're talking about.
Re:National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using...
by wdbbdw on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:50AM
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I dunno, go look at Barack Obama, then look at pictures of his parents, and tell me which group he belongs to.
Re:National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using...
by joak on Thursday March 16, 2023 @06:49PM
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The common answer is Obama is African American (or black or negro). The reason is the implicit "one drop rule", if a white is contaminated with a little amount of black blood from their ancestors, they are not white anymore but black.
The race classification of humans is racist. As the term implies.
Many people arriving to the US are shocked to be asked their 'race', as if we were dogs. I never know what to answer, are arabs white? Are spaniards latin? Are ouzbeks from Caucase asian? Etc... This is non sense racist shit.
Yet show me a picture of any of them and I am confident I could roughly point to the region in Europe where their ancestors have toiled for the last thousand generations. Put them and a dozen Congolese in a group and a 5 year old could easily separate them into their two respective racial groups.
There is clearly a common genetic 'core' among people of the same racial group. There may be much diversity within it, too, but to use that to deny the existence of this shared heritage is downright subversive and disingenuous.