(July 18, 2016 at 12:06 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(July 15, 2016 at 11:21 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Construct* And yeah, it pretty much is. In fact, science is what shows us it's a largely social construct. Not sure where your 'let's not get unscientific for the sake of PC' statement came from. There's no genetic basis for what we identify as 'race,' just phenotypes that societies identify and categorize based on their preferences.
I don't know much about the subject but I know enough to know that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. How about you look it up before further making a fool of yourself?
Well, just off the top of my head...
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/201...constructs
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...sts-argue/
http://minerva.stkate.edu/people.nsf/fil...cience.pdf
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arch...ct/275872/
There's no genetic basis for any 'race.' As I said before it's just phenotypes that are arbitrarily grouped together by societies.
You were saying about making a fool of oneself?
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