RE: The Truth about Ethnicity
September 2, 2020 at 1:35 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2020 at 1:39 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's something to think about...that even if a persn lookied exactly the same as you if you, by any metric of pigmentation, peopl would still find ways to imagine that they looked different.
You're right. I afford race more credence than it deserves even as I call it imaginary - but that's not a mistake, I do that on purpose. There can be no more damning assessment of an ideology than one which assumes all of the relevant trivia is true, and shows why the conclusion would be false even if so.
That's a doa idea. RACE IS DOA. It's not a thing, it's not real - but that doesn't mean that the things we -thought- were race based aren't real. We do have cultural differences. Deferring again, to your comments, those very real differences are why the irish and polish weren't white, even though they had matched the pigmentation criteria and shown pigmentation racism to be inconsistent with it's own metrics.
Baby steps. We're dealing with people who think that race is real and/or people who think that every other difference is imaginary because race is imaginary.
You're right. I afford race more credence than it deserves even as I call it imaginary - but that's not a mistake, I do that on purpose. There can be no more damning assessment of an ideology than one which assumes all of the relevant trivia is true, and shows why the conclusion would be false even if so.
That's a doa idea. RACE IS DOA. It's not a thing, it's not real - but that doesn't mean that the things we -thought- were race based aren't real. We do have cultural differences. Deferring again, to your comments, those very real differences are why the irish and polish weren't white, even though they had matched the pigmentation criteria and shown pigmentation racism to be inconsistent with it's own metrics.
Baby steps. We're dealing with people who think that race is real and/or people who think that every other difference is imaginary because race is imaginary.
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