A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney transplant

Re:A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney tra... by trhway on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:27PM (#39898826)

>Race is a social construct, meaning it's defined by social factors rather than strictly biological ones.

that sounds like if a child grows in different social environment it may have different skin color, eye shape and other attributes ascribed to the race. Btw, in USSR in 194x-195x similar theory was a prevalent biological theory (professor Lysenko) greatly supported by the Communist Party against the "bourgeois theory of genetics", and the people who dared to challenge that theory were ostracized, fired, sent to GULAG.

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Re:A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney tra... by whelp_24 on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:35PM (#39898953)

You are just putting to much wieght on skin color. You can't tell someone's race by looking at them. Australia aboriginal people are not really related* the Africans for example.

*Beyond the degree that everyone is related.

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Re:A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney tra... by ok_dad on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:36PM (#39898965)

It’s more like “people with similar genetics tend to grow up in the same locations for many generations” and out of that comes skin coloration, genetically linked diseases, etc. Race is still a social construct based on factors our imperfect brains have associated with the different races we’ve made up for ourselves.

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