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I'M GOING TO FUCKING END IT
race is "not genetic" in the same way being a basketball player is "not genetic"
basketball players do mostly share certain phenotypic traits, but these traits come from divergent germ lines (ignore here that professionals will be more one-off mutants and think of the just normally tall amateur level instead). in the same way, africa has more genetic diversity than any other continent, but put someone from there in the us and people will think "oh, you're black". or take someone from australia before the euros show up and that would be seen as "black" as well. and even if being tall does make people on the bus ask "hey, do you play basketball?" (or, for me, volleyball), that person's assumption doesn't actually make you such sport player. what sport you play is also culturally mediated. you might have an associated phenotype, but if basketball is totally uncool among your family and friends you'll probably do something else instead, and vice-versa. and different countries, or regions, have different sports making up the local zeitgeist. go somewhere no one plays basketball and the assumptions about what sport you must play will change
so:
- inherited characteristics as in phenotypes, which tend to cluster but don't neatly map to certain distinct genetic lineages
- there is a "my own experience" component and a "other's perception" component
- both of these component vary depending on what country or region you happen to be in; there's no global universal (though global-scale cultural exchange has homogenised things somewhat
@matrix AND cultural traditions, they should have emphasized that as their point. They're saying it's not solely genetic, but is a combination of genes and culture. But this is redefining the term "race", according to them a white baby raised by asians is racially asian, as well as racially white. Asian because of culture, white because of genes.
Wtf 😒
@matrix They're probably not wrong. Though I don't see what difference it makes. People of different lineages have different genetic traits so any genetic traits attributed to a race still apply regardless of how you want to actually group people. Seems like a waste of time to try and change an established system. Especially considering the amount of difficult progress made by our ancestors toward race equality. Seems like a huge disservice to them.
@matrix Oh, that's the college I go to. They have e-mailed me many hit articles such as one saying that anti-white racism doesn't exist, and I have been told that I should be killed for being white as part of a class discussion. One of the professors even introduced herself as a colonist who has stolen indigenous land. They don't give a fuck if you're white and I've been told by faculty that I'm born racist. So fuck that place, I just want the paper that says I went to college and to leave this God-forsaken state.
>we just compartmentalized parts of it into discrete units that, if combined, constitute "race" but we don't want to call it that