Re: "identify the subsets geopolitically" 📂 Archived Message Posted by Sinister Burt on December 11, 2020, 7:54 pm, in reply to ""identify the subsets geopolitically"" I don't think i was dissembling (though i probably mangled the formulation), just passing on my lay understanding of the current opinion of science and social science on the topic (could have found a better link though). Saying race is a social construct isn't to say it doesn't have dramatic real life implications (like eg money). And it's not to deny there are genetic differences related to ancestry (like the obvious skin colour) just that they're much less of an impact on the overall possible variation of our genome than the allelles common to all groups - which makes race be considered not a useful category when talking about genetics. For example, there are larger genetic variations between different groups of black south african people than there are between south africans and all other 'racial' groups. Here's another link (i read a really good article explaining this a while ago (probably posted here) with all stuff abbout haplogroups and alleles and whatnot, but i can't remember where - this one seems interesting on a skim though (and has that stuff about south africans): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-genetics-science-africa/ Message Thread: Coronavirus is a class issue. It requires a class-struggle response - sashimi December 9, 2020, 5:33 am It's also a racial, age and sex related struggle - Gerard December 9, 2020, 10:59 am Class sutruggle is also manifested in "racial", age and sex related struggle - Keith-264 December 9, 2020, 3:13 pm Year Zero political correctness - Gerard December 10, 2020, 12:16 pm Class will out - Keith-264 December 10, 2020, 4:39 pm Re: Year Zero political correctness - Sinister Burt December 10, 2020, 7:26 pm "identify the subsets geopolitically" - Gerard December 11, 2020, 9:29 am Re: "identify the subsets geopolitically" - Gerard December 11, 2020, 9:34 am Re: "identify the subsets geopolitically" - Sinister Burt December 11, 2020, 7:54 pm I thought that I was making the same point as you - Keith-264 December 11, 2020, 7:02 pm Re: I thought that I was making the same point as you - Sinister Burt December 11, 2020, 7:56 pm Culture is the Coin of Diplomacy - Gerard December 12, 2020, 10:04 pm « Index   Searching