(05-17-2021 01:14 PM)Rice93 Wrote: (05-17-2021 01:10 PM)tanqtonic Wrote: 2. "There is only one race—the human race" is racist? *That* one to me is a serious head scratcher.
I guess I am disagreeing here with the first part "There is only one race" more than stating the premise is "racist".
My problem with *all* racism is that when you get down to it, the definition of 'race' is problematic.
I had heard that the individual genetic variations between any two individuals, say, you and me, is typically as great, if not greater, than that of between any supposed 'race'.
Also, the three societies that seem hell bent on providing for legal 'racial delineation' in the 20th and 21st century are Germany (1934-1945), South Africa (pre 1996 Constitution), and the United States currently.
So, how do *you* define 'black' as a race? How do *you* define 'asian' as a race? Serious questions 93.... I would appreciate an answer. Or do you simply believe that those who write the laws somehow get this correct, and you just dont care about those underlying issues and the genesis of what constitutes a 'race', not to mention what the particular 'races' are.
I mean, the obvious conclusion genetically is that we are all the human race, and that 'race' as a legal construct is infirm for various sundry reasons. Yet, interestingly enough it is the progressives that wish to maintain legal racial definitions and support in the law for racial-based advantages and disadvantages. All on the pretty fairly stupid and idiotic rain dance of somehow 'defining' a race.
I would say the progressives in the modern era are sharing some pretty exalted and lofty political space with the Afrikaaner nation pre -'96 and the Third Reich in that respect.