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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by neurobama on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:48PM (#35955557)
"Made-up race categories" are visible to the naked eye, to principal-component analysis of alleles, to measures of genetic distance, to surveys of visible and invisible traits, to even the smallest child who's only begun to speak.

What was the Human Genome Project for? Your mockery and denial, I guess. Why have scientists spent lifetimes improving DNA sequencing technologies, carefully gathering data, and drawing conclusion based on the evidence? So you could laugh it all off, I suppose.

Your refusal to acknowledge reality fails to budge reality. The natural world doesn't care about race or sex solipsism. Policy founded on reality-denial will always eventually fail and be replaced. Whether it fails hard or soft and what is allowed to replace it is the question of our time in America.

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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by tomlockwood on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:55PM (#35967650)
> "Made-up race categories" are visible to the naked eye, to principal-component analysis of alleles, to measures of genetic distance, to surveys of visible and invisible traits, to even the smallest child who's only begun to speak.

Initial definitions of white, didn't include Scottish and Irish people.

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Re:The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all viol... by tomlockwood on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @07:03PM (#35982333)
> It's just most racists don't like to have that discussion,
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