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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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Like, would you say “what race are you” is a grammatically incorrect question, then?
    
    No? That question is totally in line with the definition of race I gave.
    
    The census says “hispanic” is an ethnicity rather than a race. I disagree; I think that’s splitting hairs.
    
    How do you be hispanic-er than someone else?
    
    I’m 1/4 Hispanic. My mom was half Hispanic (Mexican mother, European father…not saying the country = race before you get your panties in a twist, it’s just a fucking shorthand, everyone knows that most Mexicans are Hispanic and most Europeans are not). My mom is more Hispanic than me. Fairly simple concept.
    
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