12755424, RE: Race is a social construct that doesn't do complexity all that well. Posted by Vex_id, Wed Mar-18-15 01:09 PM
>When you pull at the strings it all falls apart. Once you >decide race is fluid, then it doesn't really have alot of >meaning altogether given the notion that the purpose is to >allow societal to categorize people.
people say the same thing about gender. What's interesting though, is that race is something where people can tangibly point to their own DNA (being comprised of multiple 'races') - so in that regard it would be amenable to a more complex/fluid analysis.
In contrast, you can't as readily point to somebody and say "they are comprised of a gender spectrum, here's the proof/DNA" - which by the way doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't comprised of a gender spectrum, it's just that we can't point to DNA in order to prove it. There are instances where people are born with sexual equipment that transcends sex/gender, but those situations are significantly more rare than being able to point to somebody who is comprised of 2 or more races.
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