• @nitefox
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    -91 year ago

    I still don’t understand why the use of racism in the description. It derives from the idea that race is actually a thing, and in a way it still promotes the idea. I would like to see a change for the much better and modern term “ethnicism”.

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      91 year ago

      Race is a social concept. Race is a thing which exists. Gender is a social concept. Gender is a thing which exists. Race is based on ethnicity, but can’t be explained by it alone, gender is based on sex, but can’t be explained by it alone.

      • @nitefox
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        -121 year ago

        I was bullshitting hard there but holy cow, race is a social concept is unironically the most racist shit I ever heard of

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            1 year ago

            to be fair, most classifications in biology are based on human observation of common traits

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              You’re not technically wrong, but you’re comparing apples to oranges. Taxonomic etymology is far more scientifically rigorous than “white fur cat species” vs “black fur cat species”.