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Yeah but it’s still obvious bullshit. Bad science is bad science no matter what level of authority does it.

That information is provided that way because people won’t know what Y-DNA haplogroup they’re in, but will generally know if they’re considered black.

So? Instead of “race” you’re saying “Y-DNA Halogroup”. Performative bullshit just to avoid the fact that race is real. You could call it “Mario Kart” instead of race, it’s still the same damn thing and it’s still real.

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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah but it’s still obvious bullshit.

According to who? At this point it’s starting to sound like a conspiracy theory. All the actual evidence has been laid out for you, including in pretty infographic form.

Y-DNA haplogroups in no way correspond to race. They look a bit like the lactose map: Interesting, and unrelated to the traditional social categorisations. Pretty much all genetic maps are like that.

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- Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  A haplotype is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent,[1][2] and a haplogroup (haploid from the Greek: ἁπλοῦς, haploûs, “onefold, simple” and English: group) is a group of similar haplotypes that share a common ancestor with a single-nucleotide polymorphism mutation.[3] More specifically, a haplotype is a combination of alleles at different chromosomal regions that are closely linked and that tend to be inherited together. As a haplogroup consists of similar haplotypes, it is usually possible to predict a haplogroup from haplotypes. Haplogroups pertain to a single line of descent. As such, membership of a haplogroup, by any individual, relies on a relatively small proportion of the genetic material possessed by that individual.
  
  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup
  
  That’s race! That’s the definition of race! Fucking university types just don’t like the word!
  
  Haplogroups can be used to define genetic populations and are often geographically oriented. For example, the following are common divisions for mtDNA haplogroups:
  
  African: L0, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6
  
  West Eurasian: H, T, U, V, X, K, I, J, W (all listed West Eurasian haplogroups are derived from macro-haplogroup N)[10]
  
  East Eurasian: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, Y, Z (note: C, D, E, G, and Z belong to macro-haplogroup M)
  
  Native American: A, B, C, D, X
  
  Australo-Melanesian: P, Q, S
  
  They are describing race! It’s super fucking obvious if you get rid of whatever white guilt stupidity makes you get the ick when you hear the word “race”.
  
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  - CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’ll notice letters appear more than once, and there’s more than one letter. Also, that’s mtDNA, and if you actually cared about biology you’d know that’s only one type on DNA, inherited one way, and you can completely mix and match with the Y haplogroups.
    
    I get it, you hate wokes. I don’t really think cultural disgruntlement is a good basis for defining “science”, though. I suspect there’s no more useful information to exchange here.
    
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    Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I hate people who push bad science in service to an agenda. Especially when it’s doublethink levels of blatantly, obviously wrong bad science.
    
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