[greenthrow]

It still is. Just because it includes physical signifiers that can be measured doesn't mean it isn't still a social construct.

To give a contrived example; if I say people with ring fingers over 3 inches long are Longfings and people wkth ring fingers 3 inches or less are Shortfings, and then out society treats people differently based on being Longfing or Shortfing, this is a social construct that is causing problems for people based on a contrived criteria that has no real meaning. The same is true of race.

[inkblotuniverse]

What if shortfings tend to be drastically taller, and the longfings are complaining that they're overrepresented in jumpball?

[pessimizer]

> What if shortfings tend to be drastically taller

What does it mean for shortfings to be dramatically taller? Are you saying that shortfings must transmit height along with finger length; some sort of race invariance? Or are you saying that most shortfings you meet are also tall?

If a black person is a pale as a white person, they're still considered black (and may share many other characteristics that many black people have.) If some of your shortfings have long fingers, does the distinction still make sense as a scientific category?

> the longfings are complaining that they're overrepresented in jumpball?

Is admission to jumpball determined by finger measuring, or through social factors?