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by enkid 1714 days ago
Race does not exist genetically. https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-res...
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mc32 1714 days ago
That's true... but then "racism" cannot exist. So people keep the idea on life support. Maybe culturalism is a better word.
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nobody9999 1714 days ago
> That's true... but then "racism" cannot exist. So people keep the idea on life support. Maybe culturalism is a better word.

The proper term is bigotry.

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tester89 1714 days ago
Not if race is a social construct.
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superflit2 1714 days ago
Oh yes.

Very BLM article.

Whole medicine has know for years that diseases and treatment differ by race. Saying that it does not matter will only make things worse for other races.

Several labs are actively pursuing black and other minorities as volunteer for their clinical trials for this reason. If that does not matter we will never see studies looking for African americans or Asians.

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_hilro 1714 days ago
> Ever since researchers sequenced the chimp genome in 2005, they have known that humans share about 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees, making them our closest living relatives.

Species do not exist genetically /s

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