the-pi-guy said:
My favorite part about him quoting wikipedia, is that the next line is literally "Although such groupings lack a firm basis in modern biology, they continue to have a strong influence over contemporary social relations" "Scientists consider biological essentialism obsolete, and generally discourage racial explanations for collective differentiation in both physical and behavioral traits" "Modern scholarship views racial categories as socially constructed, that is, race is not intrinsic to human beings but rather an identity created to establish meaning in a social context" All of his other quotes from wikipedia are from articles that make similar points about race being a social construct. |
"Scientists consider biological essentialism obsolete"
yeah the same arguments being used to verify the idea that gender is infinite....
to reiterate what i said to him
nothing has changed about the definition of race, all that has changed is that the term race is being removed from the field of biology
its meaning is the same as it always has been with regards to identifying people with different physical characteristics
to put a finer point on this, the fact that the field of biology is phasing out the term race does not mean, for example, that we lose the ability to differentiate between a black and a white man correct?
and furthermore it does not mean that when people make such distinctions that its not grounded in biology, since we make such distinctions in accordance with the expression of genetic traits
i suppose i'm a bit taken aback tbh, never thought i'd see the day that biology became politically correct and yet here it is happening right before my very eyes
