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originally posted by: TheLaughingGod
a reply to: yuppa
It depends on who you're asking. The idea behind the concept we mean when we refer to race is valid, whether it classifies as a race I'll leave up to geneticists. The everyday meaning and the concept it represents is still as valid as it has ever been.
Do you agree that this point of yours is just an appeal to semantics?
Don't be ridiculous, we're not all the same and we don't need to be the same either. Ignoring evidence just to avoid facing reality because one has some kind of obsessive fixation with equality is not a recipe for finding truth. Acting as if it is a problem that we're different. Turtles and hares are different too, no problem there.
That's a faulty view if I ever heard one. You're meaning we all have to be the same to get along? Sorry mate, I don't buy that at all. I'm not actively mad at people that are better at math than me, I can still get along with such a person as if it weren't an issue at all. Like we couldn't find a thousand other reasons to divide ourselves up without resorting to race.
If you really believe in this then you should have no problem with the idea that you couldn't ever really get along with people that were worse or better than you in any number of categories. This is the logic you're going by and it's pretty irrational as far as I'm concerned. If this isn't the case I don't see why we can't acknowledge differences, they are there and they are as clear as day and have been verified by science for a long, long time. By ignoring them you are being willfully ignorant.
Why does this matter you ask though? It matters because the people need to understand were all the same at our base levels.Until they do we will never be rid of "racism" as a social construct.
originally posted by: TheLaughingGod
a reply to: yuppa
I did read it and I wrote about everything I found a problem with.
Then we are in agreement. This unique nature should be preserved for posterity and the idea that race is just a social construct should be thrown to the garbage heap of history.
originally posted by: TheLaughingGod
a reply to: yuppa
I've already gone over this a number of times. First off, most people use the word race in a colloquial sense, this is how most people understand the word. They don't use it as a taxonomic classification, but as a word to refer to different races.
Secondly, in reality this is a matter of semantics. What you don't mention when you say this is that there are still general differences and characteristics in different races even if we are not different species. Saying there is only one human race is completely sidestepping the actual discussion. Most people already know we are only one species so I don't get why you are saying this as if it was some big revelation.
The taxonomic classification of race may not apply to different races but it is not a social construct in the least. It is a genetic construct and it manifests in ways that makes Asians different from white people and white people different from black people. Do you have trouble accepting this reality?
Why do you keep stubbornly ignoring this?
originally posted by: Skywatcher2011
originally posted by: imod02
Has anyone else been thinking that President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker is more than a little mad.
No, he is not mad...he is just a puppet for the Elite to conspire in creating chaos around the world so that the NWO can be gin...other than that...the people in those affected countries are MAD AS HELL