Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?

• Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only people who think race don’t matter is people who exclusively interact within the same race.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a social construct that didn’t exist until the 1600s, but it’s a real social construct.

    Outside America and other former plantation economies it can be a bit different, and less in-your-face, but it’s almost always still there.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not purely a social construct, I hate this stupid idea. It’s a phenotype. Babies do not have a randomized skin color at birth, it depends on their ancestry. Calling that a “social construct” is arguably racist in itself.

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Skin colour is a complete continuum, and one which doesn’t very in any uniform way based on geography, aside from the darkest people coming recently from Africa.

        By this logic, ear size is a race.

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