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Re:I, Racist by mplscoder on Friday July 10, 2015 @01:38PM (#9865472)
>>Zimmerman is of white race and Hispanic ethnicity.

What? Race and ethnicity are synonyms.

Maybe you can score some internet points but what's the use of a discussion if words have no meaning and you can make up distinctions where there are none.

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Re:I, Racist by dragonwriter on Friday July 10, 2015 @01:52PM (#9865560)
> What? Race and ethnicity are synonyms.

Race and ethnicity are, perhaps, similar kinds of cultural constructs, but they are orthogonal categories.

See, e.g., https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/reic/definitions.asp

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Re:I, Racist by Nadya on Friday July 10, 2015 @01:56PM (#9865583)
> The categories do not denote scientific definitions of anthropological origins
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Re:I, Racist by dragonwriter on Friday July 10, 2015 @02:16PM (#9865710)
Yes, neither "race" nor "ethnicity" do denote scientific definitions of anthropological origins.

They are both cultural in-group, out-group constructs, they just happen to be different constructs rather than synonyms.

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