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- Aug 21, 2022
Retarded. All of your stated categorizations were conjured by man, and categorizations are created and persist when they're useful and vanish when they're not as is the nature of ideas. A large amount of information about the probable culture, appearance, actions, beliefs of a person is instantly transmitted to you when you hear "asian" because the categorization is useful and predictive. If you can separate out the rates of anything (crime, heart disease, lactose intolerance, predisposition to any given action) and they are meaningfully different for entries within your categories, those categories are useful and valid. Perhaps there exists something more granular that would be an even more useful category. Sure. You invoked phenotypes, haplogroups, but generally those are TOO granular to be of any predictive use in the context of 'what is a group likely to do' and are only of practical interest to science. Ironically, it circles back to "people with these haplogroups which result in lactose intolerance happen to primarily come from Asia". Gee, if only there were words and concepts for broader distinctions for people and their genes that come from a place. "A social myth from a desire to group phenotypically similar groups" you say? Such a desire would not exist if there was not a need for it. Categorization would have been impossible, or not persisted as long as it has, if there was no use. You can play a definitional shell game all you like, erm acktually we said the (still useful) concept we once said was real is no longer real, but humans are different. Liberalism still has no answer for this, and slowly rots and is eaten away by system parasites as it tries to pretend that the blank slate is real. Dev is one of these system parasites, but of a far more foul kind. He has all the tools to contribute, but has decided to ride it out. Ironically the FLAWS of liberalism, his beloved ideology, are the only thing that enables his actionsThere is nothing to suggest that sexual dimorphism, or biological differences between the sexes, which is found in every single species with two sexes, proves racial dimorphism, which is found in zero species. Race is not a biological concept; there was no scientist who proved that racial categories existed. Instead, the earliest accounts of so-called races come from figures like François Bernier, who observed different phenotypes while traveling and grouped them into so-called races. Bernier grouped these groups primarily on his perception of their similarity in appearance, grouping all of the entirety of the African continent together despite it being more genetically diverse internally than entire groups are to each other, such as Asians and Europeans. This, as the origin of race shows, has an inherent flaw: it has no basis in genetic fact but is rather a social myth from a desire to group phenotypically similar groups. Ethnicity exists, haplogroups exist, and genotypes exist, but race does not.
"The biological fact of race and the myth of 'race' should be distinguished. For all practical social purposes, 'race' is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth." -1950 UNESCO