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White Americans are beginning to realise that they too belong to a race

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Re: White Americans are beginning to realise that they too belong to a race

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The last time this happened it went very badly. I can’t imagine white identity as a political issue leading to anything good.

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No, but rather because it is not helpful or very rational at all, to divide humans into races (especially just based on the trait skincolor).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)

"Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptions of race are untenable, scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways. While some researchers continue to use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits or observable differences in behavior, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race is inherently naive or simplistic"

Re: White Americans are beginning to realise that they too belong to a race

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No, but rather because it is not helpful or very rational at all, to divide humans into races (especially just based on the trait skincolor). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) "Even though there is a broad scientific agreement that essentialist and typological conceptions of race are untenable, scientists around the world continue to conceptualize race in widely differing ways. While some rese…

The people this article is about think that race is associated genetically with intellectual ability and worry about things like racial purity. The people who previously talked about race use it as a proxy for identifying groups of people that aren't succeeding in society, causing some drag on economic development, and try to figure out how to solve the problem.
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