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• Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s an academic ivory tower definition that they invented and no one else uses. Even the blatant racists who sorted races into these social categories did so based on physical appearance. You didn’t see any dark skin people allowed to use facilities that said “whites only”.

  It’s based on physical appearance, which is based on phenotype.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s what I said!

    but usually race refers to the discrete-ish social categories that have been constructed based roughly on specific phenotypes.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For example Black people were a discrete legal category

      THAT is not a race. That is treatment of a race. That is 100% a social construct.

      Race itself is a real biological thing that exists. Not a pure social construct.

      Stop conflating them.

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I really don’t think most people use this definition. Like, would you say “what race are you” is a grammatically incorrect question? And what about “hispanic” as a racial descriptor?

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