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"Race is just a social construct"
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2020-07-16 at 10:55 PM UTC
Originally posted by ORACLE That concept of a frog is a social construction. It's an abstract category of ideas, like numbers. I say "3", you think the number "3" but three what? Nothing, you can see 3 happening when you put an apple, an apple and an apple in a row but it's not something that by itself exists "out there" as a physical thing. Does the number 3 have a colour? That's not a question one can answer, it doesn't even make sense, doesn't mean the number 3 isn't real.
Ok, so earlier when you said race is a social construct, did you mean it exists as an abstract category of ideas but not as something that exists "out there" as a physical thing, or did you mean it exists as both an abstract category of ideas as well as a physical thing, or what? -
2020-07-16 at 10:57 PM UTC
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2020-07-16 at 11:13 PM UTCobbe is a lowly stoner who shouldnt care about life.
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2020-07-16 at 11:18 PM UTC
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2020-07-16 at 11:36 PM UTC
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2020-07-17 at 12:43 AM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Ok, so earlier when you said race is a social construct, did you mean it exists as an abstract category of ideas but not as something that exists "out there" as a physical thing, or did you mean it exists as both an abstract category of ideas as well as a physical thing, or what?
There are real patterns of genetic and cultural variations in human beings. Race is a category that uses one, skin colour, to organize human beings. It's a real phenomenon, a real pattern or set of patterns in the world, that we generalize into a word that sums up some essential features of phenomenon. It is a socially constructed category because it is a word we have constructed and understand as an abstraction in a social context.
The problem can be when one uses these associations to create tribalistic generalizations about other patterns, like social criminality or intelligence.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2020-07-17 at 12:45 AM UTC
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2020-07-17 at 1:17 AM UTC
Originally posted by ORACLE There are real patterns of genetic and cultural variations in human beings. Race is a category that uses one, skin colour, to organize human beings. It's a real phenomenon, a real pattern or set of patterns in the world, that we generalize into a word that sums up some essential features of phenomenon. It is a socially constructed category because it is a word we have constructed and understand as an abstraction in a social context.
The problem can be when one uses these associations to create tribalistic generalizations about other patterns, like social criminality or intelligence.
Great explanation. -
2020-07-17 at 2:38 AM UTC
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2020-07-17 at 3:23 AM UTCConstruct is just a social race.
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2020-07-17 at 3:25 AM UTC
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2020-07-17 at 3:25 AM UTCJust race a social construct.
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2020-07-17 at 3:26 AM UTC
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2020-07-17 at 3:31 AM UTCsocieties are a racial construct.
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2020-07-17 at 3:33 AM UTC
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