"Racism"

[BmorePat87]

(03-23-2018, 05:04 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Fair explanation, but it seems we are just wanting to change the rules because some find it offensive. Merriam defines race as: "a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits" while ethnicity is: "a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like" 

So if we identify by ethnicity, that doesn't mean that race ceases to exist as there are still going to be folks with: "distinctive physical traits"

A common misconception seems to be that those who acknowledge the fact that race is a social construct want to abolish race as some sort of system of categorization. 

It is still a very relevant concept just as many other social constructs are, we just shouldn't suggest that it's biologically relevant simply because some people 200 years ago thought skin color was the major genetic indicator in humans.