• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    You’re right. White is not a race. Neither is black, brown or purple. People have different levels of melanin in their skin, and that’s it. People come from different cultures, and have different norms / frames of reference. That’s where diversity of opinion comes from.

    To boil that down to a binary categorisation based on literal skin colour is reductionist to say the least. Some might be less generous.

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      1 year ago

      The explanation that made the most sense to me is that yes, there is no such thing as race, it’s genetically insignificant. However as a historical construct, we still have to take it into account in order to dismantle things like systemic racism.