this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
516 points (88.5% liked)

Not The Onion

12344 readers
448 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm of the opinion that there aren't any biological races and that race is a social construct.

Is it your opinion that 'African type black people' are a single race?

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well, you're wrong, you've some political reason to deny biological reality.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No I honestly don't. I also think you may not be as racist as you sound, I think you just don't understand the difference between race and ethnicity. How many 'black African' races do you think there are? Answering this question would help me figure out your understanding of ethnicity vs race.

Can you give some examples of the biological reality you think I'm denying? The Wikipedia article you cited did not support your position that race is biologically significant to health.

You didn't deny that 'yellow' is a race. (Again, I don't believe in races, you seem to) Can you tell me some biological realities that apply to 'yellow' people?

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not defining terms you understand like your monkey.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You say I'm in denial of biological reality but you refuse to give examples of how I am deluded. You are not arguing in good faith.

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Said the guy pretending to not understand basic terms, whether or not he agrees. (You disagreeing with those terms' practical existence is the example)

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Mate, no. I understand the practical existence of race (well... to the extent a nonracialized person can) what I'm talking about is the expert consensus that: the matter of where the boundaries between races get drawn is determined by social factors, not biological.

The question of whether an ethnicity was (and is) 'white' or not was a political question, not a biological one.

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Oh look. Gobblygook