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graegoyle

(532 posts) Mon Apr 13, 2015, 03:45 AM Apr 2015

Race is: [Choose one, mix and match or roll your own]

1. A false construct
2. A tool to divide
3. Unimportant
4. Not the same as species
5. A simplified way to speak of common phenotypical traits
6. A series of left turns made more entertaining by beer and bratwurst

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Race is: [Choose one, mix and match or roll your own] (Original Post) graegoyle Apr 2015 OP

This should be good. linuxman Apr 2015 #1

Not quite 1 loyalsister Apr 2015 #2

linuxman

(2,337 posts)

1. This should be good.

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Mon Apr 13, 2015, 05:21 AM

Apr 2015

For the record, I pick 5.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)

2. Not quite 1

Reply to graegoyle (Original post)

Mon Apr 13, 2015, 05:46 AM

Apr 2015

But, almost. It is an invented social, rather than a biological, construct. I don't think it is false because there are very real conditions and results that are a function of that creation.

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