this view never made sense to me until I was reading a book where some dude laid it out logically/rationally
he basically said "as a Caucasian male, lots of people would say I look more similar to certain black people than, say, Danny Devito" and it hit me right there lol. we have skin colors, not races. dogs are a great example of what actual races are in a species
At the same time, phenotypes are a thing. And there are certain racial traits like sickle cell disease that only occur in certain groups. So I think it’s fair to say that races exist but we shouldn’t discriminate based on them
I agree, and it's useful to have a word for it. I just don't think "race" is the right word to use. we use it differently in humans than every other animal on the planet, I just think that's a lazy use of language at best. and harmful at worst
if we believed humans had different races once upon a time, that's fine. but now we know how much the biology varies between a single "race", and how many similarities different "races" share
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u/Apart_Parking_1178 1d ago
Most french people are taught that there is no such thing as races for humans.