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It absolutely is a social construct, anybody that would argue against that is either ignorant as f*** or disingenuous.

What race are Turks?
What race are super dark Aborigines?
What race are Native Americans?
What race are Ashkenazi Jews?

Depending on who you ask you'll get different answers. Race within humans is not a useful category.

There's more genetic diversity within the population of sub-Saharan Africa itself than literally all of the rest of the world's population combined, yet all sub-Saharan Africans are lumped into the same "race" of "black".

The concept of race is a social construct that was created as a means to justify the colonialism, imperialism and racialized slavery that was being committed by the West, and it still serves the purpose of justifying racial inequalities and imperialism perfectly well to this day.

The racial classifications that are most widely used have absolutely no basis in genetics at all.

Really? So black and white dont exist? I swear this forum is full of 14 year old angered kids that make no sense

The sickle cell thing isn’t because black people are a different subsection of humanity (not accusing you of anything just explaining lol) it’s because of the climate, which also determines their skin color in the first place. The whole “race is a myth” is because the genetic differences between every race are way too small to be considered even groupings of a species. For example, native Australians and Polynesians often look identical to Africans, but they were the first to leave the continent so they are actually the most distant of all races to black Africans. Then there are black ethnic groups in Africa who share Y-chromosomes links with Europeans rather than their african neighbors. All these different races are a result of climate and environmental changes, and only occurred relatively recently

Sickle cell disease cause the red blood to be “sickle” shaped. When you are a carrier for this gene, you have a protective advantage against malaria.

So yes that why you see higher rates of sickle cell where malaria is common. It’s actually a genetic advantage to help them survive.

Nobody said it doesn’t exist but bias and splitting of groups socially is a human made thing. Maybe if you had some reading comprehension you’d have more mental capacity than a 14 year old

I'm having trouble understanding how something doesn't exist just because it's a social construct

Society is literally a social construct, does it not exist either?

That's exactly my point, the distribution of Sickle Cell disease is more a case geography than proof of race. But, someway somehow it's always brought up as some sort of proof race

If youre going around treating everyone the same you're going to learn a lesson one day

It just means it doesn’t hold any value outside of our own societal structure. Hypothetically let’s say aliens came they wouldn’t really understand our concepts towards race and they wouldn’t see us any differently from each other except for the fact that we look different from each other. It’s just like in school you had the popular kids and nerds and the weird kids but that’s all really just social separation from the kids themselves but even though their behaviors and interests may fit them into a certain group they are all still the same in reality

It exists as a social construct, not as a biological fact.

Even literally colors are different in different parts of the world. Some places have more names for different colors and some parts of the word only have three names for their colors. It’s just societal

no and all the rules are contracts too. I do believe certain "races" are not biologically identical to others. like certain being able to be in the sun longer. more athletic.

p sure that's just facts tho

But they’re still human. Having biological differences literally will happen from you and both of your parents but that doesnt make you a different race.

I can't even see the point if this debate tbh

If an entire race has a tendency to act a certain way, or are driven towards a certain mode of thinking, then call it whatever you want...race is still real

That doesnt have to do with your race... thats the environment of your surroundings which you were raised in... i guess that means all black people like chicken and all asians are good at math then

Those are just little memes though

I'm talking about when you go to a third world country and there are entire wars based on racial supremacy

And there are notorious races who are all considered cunning and prude by other races

This s*** is so much deeper than the melting pot in the US