Race and Religion and evolution. OP/ED

[Brian37]

I don't like when people [religious] play the race card to avoid criticism to religion. Curiously, I'd criticize a white Muslim as much as an arab Muslim

I do not like your concept of race however - Saying race doesn't exist isn't biologically wrong but from a social standpoint, we perceive people as being part of certain races due to physical features. If we could all look past it, that'd be great, but until racial discrimination exists we better acknowledge race exists as a social status regarding one's physical features.


Brian, you should go talk to neo-nazis and tell them pure bloodlines don't exist

Where did I say race does not exist? I said it should not be used as an excuse anymore than religion.

It denotes our genes, our hair color, our eye color, our skin tone, and our facial features.

But that does not make us a separate species regardless.

We are related even today. Anyone in the world can migrate to anywhere else in the world "in theory", and have sex with someone who does not look like them and still make a baby.

Race exists as a construct, it is unavoidable because groups of people can and do share different traits. But by telling people the truth about our common evolution, it shifts the priority about our artificial pecking orders and puts it where it should be on our common existence.

We use, for example "black" to denote skin tone and call that race. But even with that, an American black man never having been to Africa is not going to share the same social norms as someone who lives in Africa. Just like Italians who have never lived in America are not going to share the same social norms as those who had parents who migrated here.

The fact still remains no matter what social words we use to describe each other, we have never been a separate species and we still are not a separate species.

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Oh and please don't equate me to Hitler, I am well aware of his genetic background.