Comment on If Australians knew the whole truth about Indigenous history, Lidia Thorpe’s royal outburst would not have been a shock | Celeste Liddle

• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Way to make up a stawman quote I never said.

  You’ll note that most of my comment was spent saying your deceptive, and have to twist words… So the fact you responded by fabricating a quote because you couldn’t find one, is hilarious.

  But no, races don’t exist… Ethnicities do. Go look it up for yourself. There’s more genetic diversity within “darker skinned people from Africa” than there is between light skinned people (what you would call “white people”) and dark skinned people (whom you might call africans).

  Race doesn’t exist, it’s not a scientific concept. Ethnicity does, because it’s a mix of culture, shared history, and appearance (and no, that’s not a euphemism for race because it includes how groups dress/behave), so no, “White people” isn’t a real race… But Finnish people exist as an ethnicity, Germans exist as an ethnicity, French people exist as an ethnicity…

  They all have different cultures, languages, traditions, dances, customs. Things constructed culturally.

  They all share superficial bodily characteristics (as do the rest of humanity)… But there’s no unified culture or country called “White”.

  Like I said. There’s more genetic diversity between “African” ethnicities than there is between white people and “black” people. But you’re just doing an evaluation of people’s skin colour and how they look superficially amd saying that’s race. Go look up whether race is a scientifically valid concept. Go find the country of “White”… It’s not a thing.

  The world has cultures, histories and ethnicities, not races.

  Race is socially constructed not a scientific matter of genes and procreation, that would be genetics. That’s why albino indians are still ethnically indians. They’re nkt suddenly Finnish or German just because of sharing a skin colour.

  Anyways, I’m sure you’ll misquote me then pretend a misinterpretation you put in quotes yourself is what I was saying…

  … because like I pointed out earlier, no matter what I say you’re going to have to twist it. Because not only are you a believer in an outdated ideas of Racism (bloodlines and purity and what not, when in actual fact we all trace back to the same people), you also have to lie and construct strawman arguments out of desparation.

  It’s not surprising you don’t knkw Australian history. You also still think race is a scientifically valid concept. You’re a liar, outdated, and ignorant of the facts, as expected.

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