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Originally Posted by Raev
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This is so silly that it can only come from someone who went to college.
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Absolutely right. This is stuff I didn't hear until my required Anthro 101 "cultural studies" course, along with the biggest dogma of that field: ethnocentrism.
These people recoil in horror about Nazis yet claim value-judgments about cultural variation are impossible to make.
In actual science/medical education race is very relevant, and although the racial categories extant in popular consciousness were defined somewhat arbitrarily (the real actual categories spawned from recent understanding of genetics don't have easy-to-remember names) they are still quite useful and reasonably accurate at the population scale, as far as blunt instruments go.
Daddy zog knows he can trust the libarts chrilden to lap this shit up even as the very same institution is teaching the opposite in evidence-based classes. I recently heard a 40-year-old college-educated woman say that there is no way to discern the biological sex of a human being by looking at their genetic makeup. She makes over 100k at one of the most major tech and big data firms on Earth. The god of abraham will grant you Eden yall, just stay away from that apple of knowledge.