Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 month agoThe only people who think race don’t matter is people who exclusively interact within the same race.
Comment on Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 month agoThe only people who think race don’t matter is people who exclusively interact within the same race.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month 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.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month 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.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes! You’re getting it. Ear size is an aspect of race. As is hair texture and height and all the other inheritable phenotypes. Skin color is just the most visibly obvious one.