"Racism"

[BmorePat87]

(03-16-2018, 11:02 AM)fredtoast Wrote: A trans woman can dress however she wants, but it will not make it impossible for her to get prostate cancer.

I can get a tight perm and a dark spray tan, but I still do not have to worry about sickle-cell anemia.

The fact that it is complicated to divide people into a small number of races does not mean there are not biological differences between people that are generally determined by where their ancestors originated.

I am not saying that we have to pigeonhole every person into one of 4 or 5 broad categories, but at the same time it is silly to ignore the genetic differences.  The reason that an overwhelming majority of WRs, DBs, NBA players, and track stars are black is because on average they have a genetic advantage.  When you try to pretend it is cultural instead of biological you end up saying that white people just don't try as hard or some other silly bullshit like that.

If you really want to address racial issue you can't pretend that all the differences are just cultural.  No one wants to say that blacks on average have lower test score because they are genetically inferior, but if that is the truth we don't gain anything by denying the facts.  There are still plenty of black people who have very high test scores and there are some white WRs and NBA players.  As long as we don't judge the individual based on racial stereotypes then there is no problem. 

Instead of claiming there are no differences we need to get people to not judge individuals based on racial stereotypes.  We don't solve anything by denying the truth.

Again, your examples have the same problems that you're ignoring. You're suggesting that specific African ethnicities are representative of a whole race, even when the trends you're pointing to do not extend to every ethnic group that has black skin. 


Also the point being made is that there ARE genetic variations in people based on the origin of their ancestors and that focusing on ethnicity reveals far more than race as there are no common gene clusters for race. It appears that you believe ethnicity is just cultural, not genetic.