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Originally Posted by pickled_heretic
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the genetic foundation of race is basically undeniable.
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Actually that is ridiculously untrue.
There is no such scientific class as race. Sociologists group people in terms of ethnicity, culture, and nationality.
Race is a pseudo scientific term which lumps people together based on arbitrary observations, such as skin color or eye shape.
Terms like Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid were used as tools by a small group of people (supported by a large racist population) in mainly America to give them a base from which they could erroneous-legitimately start building pseudoscience with an edge for ethnocentrism.
Racism, as a term, is still valid in that it encompasses the negative feelings and actions of people who erroneously see race as a basis for discrimination of people.