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Topic subjectRE: Race is a social construct that doesn't do complexity all that well.
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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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