Unfriending due to Political Differences

[StarDoor]

WolfpackN64 said:

StarDoor said:

Are you saying that you are no more genetically related to your parents than to someone on the other side of the planet? Your argument is the equivalent of saying that your family doesn't exist. Race is just family writ large based on genetic similarity. Distinct population groups do exist among humans; we've experienced 50 to 100 thousand years of evolution in separate environments. It's insane to argue that evolution shaped skin pigmentation, bone density, skull structure, blood type, disease immunity, bacterial microbiomes, and much more, but left cognitive traits untouched. The only reason that people like you object to this reality is because you think that it somehow justifies the subjugation of other groups of people, a belief that is even more "racist" than anything you assign to the people you disagree with.

This is no reality. It's been scientifically stated there is only ONE human race. What you are stating is largely cultural and local difference, but that does not constitute a race.

And it does not justify the subjegation of other people. If anything, other people were named a race in the past to legitimize their colonization by the western powers.

It's not a cultural difference, it's a biological difference. Although culture tends to be a function of the population's biology anyways.

OK, so don't call them races. That doesn't refute the fact that there are genetically distinct population groups within humanity.

Also, Western powers are quite late to the party when it comes to racism/subjugation/colonization. The Persians hated the Greeks, the Egyptians hated the Jews, the Japanese hated the Chinese... interracial/interethnic conflict pervades human history. Whites don't have a monopoly on that sort of thing. If anything, whites were the ones who developed an ideology (liberalism) that denies the very existence of different groups of humanity, which makes perfect sense when you consider that Europeans (especially northern and western ones) are among the least ethnocentric population groups. Unfortunately, this tendency makes it easy for more ethnocentric peoples to take advantage of them.