• LOGICšŸ’£@lemmy.world
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    I’ve heard it said that ā€œwhiteā€ isn’t a proper race. It’s just a skin color. So you could make the argument that snowmen are the only actual white people, and that your uncle is a beige person.

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      I’ve heard it said that ā€œwhiteā€ isn’t a proper race.

      There aren’t really ā€œproper racesā€ in the first place.

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        We’re all just different breeds. And just like dogs and cats, keeping a heritage unnaturally pure tends to bring a host of bad health issues and vulnerabilities.

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          Not even enough genetic diversity to constitute being called different ā€œbreedsā€. Cats, dogs, and other animals that are stratified by ā€œbreedsā€ have enough genetic diversity to call for stratification with clear distinctions between each breed. For us humans, there are a few genetic markers that were adapted to their regional environments but the adaptations have no clear genetic delineations between the different ā€œracesā€. There is a lot of overlapping after millennia of ancestral mixing.

          You can tell a dog breed through genetic sequencing. You can’t tell someone’s race using it, though. We can tell our potential ancestry but there is way too much genetic overlap between the different ā€œracesā€ to tell the individual’s race via their genome alone.

          It’s a lot more complex than this but I’m just speaking generally to get the point across.

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      This is something that has legit bothered me from a young age.

      White people aren’t white. I don’t know the name for that weird color. Sand? Whatever it is, it’s not white!And black people aren’t black. They’re clearly brown.

      What idiot started calling us black and white when we’re clearly brown and sand!

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        Born pink, grow up and end up anywhere from… still pink to olive, a little bit of sun and we become slightly tan, too much sun we become red, when sick or frightened we become almost white and we’re grey when we die. Maybe it’s white people who should have been referred to as ā€œcoloredā€!