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by ZeroGravitas 1498 days ago
The problem with 'race' as a concept isn't that you can genetically tell people apart.

Our tools are so precise you can tell which parent a set of cousins had with DNA tests, this doesn't make them a different species/sub-species or race from each other, even if one group has red hair and the other has black.

It's the pointless lumping together of people who are genetically distinct and drawing arbitrary, unscientific lines that's the issue.

Presumably the same experiments that can detect Asian Vs Black Vs White could also detect the entirely made up 'races' of Asian orBlack, AsianorWhite and WhiteorBlack since those are logically equivalent.

So are the races I made up a moment ago real things? No. But a computer can predict which category I'd assign, doesn't that make them real and important racial classifications? No it means my made up classifications map to other real genetic concepts at a lower level, like red hair.