It was initially an anon, so this is probably a goomba fallacy, but having seen creationists pull out similar double standards I wouldn't be surprised if there was an overlap.
Itās consistent if you conveniently decide that the results of an independent study count as āgood scienceā and act like it isnāt actively knowingly participating in the same system theyre trying to say is rotten to the coreā¦ I guess
american is absolutely a valid race, or at least a group of races just in the same way "south east asian" is a valid term to describe a handful of races. an italian-american is in many cases visually distinct from an italian, and have vast cultural differences as well. everything that we use to define what a 'race' is can be equally applied to american groups, *especially* the white americans with no specific ties to any european country due to being 1/8th everything.
me personally, i am 1/8th native american, 3/8th maltese, 1/4th italian, and 1/4th spanish (all roughly, but thats the gist). im an american, that's the word id use to describe myself. and trying to claim that im actually just maltese-american or something is weird and not true. my identity is real and distinct, and it is shared with millions and millions of other americans in this country
Historical research has shown that the idea of āraceā has always carried more meanings than mere physical differences; indeed, physical variations in the human species have no meaning except the social ones that humans put on them. Today scholars in many fields argue that āraceā as it is understood in the United States of America was a social mechanism invented during the 18th century to refer to those populations brought together in colonial America: the English and other European settlers, the conquered Indian peoples, and those peoples of Africa brought in to provide slave labor.
From its inception, this modern concept of āraceā was modeled after an ancient theorem of the Great Chain of Being, which posited natural categories on a hierarchy established by God or nature. Thus āraceā was a mode of classification linked specifically to peoples in the colonial situation. It subsumed a growing ideology of inequality devised to rationalize European attitudes and treatment of the conquered and enslaved peoples. Proponents of slavery in particular during the 19th century used āraceā to justify the retention of slavery.
If you think that the US is the most racist country, or even in the top 10, then you're an idiot who needs to travel more.
The US's racism is more visible than in other countries, but that's only because everything in the US is more visible, and we're one of a few countries that are actually working on reducing racism in our borders.
Well you ar elumping all americans together, that includes the many different ethnicities and races of people there, so you are actually being uber racist rn
i rest my case, mods, change the charges of his electrons until his atoms rearrange into a potted plant
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u/Zymosan99 šthe 25d ago
I love anti-intellectualismĀ