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The construct of "human races"

Name: Anonymous 2019-01-07 18:50

Science doesn't recognize the intuitive, non-strict idea that are "races of humans". Numerous attempts to define races of humans have failed to achieve even the basic standards expected of science.

Among the failed attempts of racialism, there was an idea that people intuitively identified as same "race" tend to have lower average distance than people intuitively identified as different "races".
This idea is completely useless for actual classification, as it doesn't work the other way around. There is no good way to go from genetic distances to "races" without getting a truckload of both false positives and false negatives.
Even more naive attempt would be to define a canonical examplars of "whiteness", "blackness", "yellowness" and so on, then classify people based on genetic distance from those ur-Aryans, ur-Nubians, ur-Huns. Even without getting into the whole fact that "genetic distance" is not a well defined term on its own and different measures give different outcomes, this idea would be extremely fragile and full of false positives and false negatives.

No matter how much racialists shriek that "but muh orange doesn't prove muh red and muh yellow don't exist!", science stands firm and keeps demanding a workable definition of race.
Until then, "human races" aren't not scientific ideas in any shape or form. At best social, at worst pseudoscientific.

Name: Anonymous 2019-01-07 23:23

What's totally trippy is that personalities and mannerisms and worldviews exist across races, in the same way that certain forms in nature exist across species (golden ratio and many other efficient structures). That must mean that there is a dimension where personalities form based on efficient templates just like how in the 4D realm physical things do. This means that the 4D realm is merely a limited expression of reality and all we can do is attempt to cast off our personalities and all resulting desires and worldviews through reliving our pasts and then we will be clear-eyed enough to appreciate this fact.

Name: Anonymous 2019-01-08 17:18

>>2
AnusVoid plz go

Name: Anonymous 2019-01-08 18:45

wat

Name: Anonymous 2019-01-08 19:19

>>4
Utterly horrendous and despicable post dumbass. And before you counter stating that my post is also so, remember it contains at least 3 words you had to Google. So I essentially taught you at least three new words with one post, THAT'S where the bar is set in terms of expected post-quality around here. Bring it or bin it.

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