>..the concept of race doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
>We use race is as a proxy for ancestry/ethnicity...except
>for when we don't. See also the black vs Black dustups here.
>That said, if someone wants to identify as black, and they
>can get everybody else to view them as black (because
>arguably the distinguishing feature of being black in this
>country is that everybody else sees you as black), then
>it's fine with me. It's not like race is some sacred,
>super-scientific designation.

Right - in fact, how we presently apply "race" via societal census
is decisively unscientific.

>I think in this recent case though, the issue is that
>non-crazy people don't tend to do this sort of stuff.

lol


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