Race theory was always pseudoscience to imply the generalized differences between people who looked differently were genetic and thus inherent traits.

It's an extension of a much older, more insidious idea - blood purity. There are still people who would pretend to trace their own lineage back through every scholar, king, and prophet to Adam, while choosing to believe that everyone else is a mongrel line, inferior and subservient to them in some way.

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simianwords 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Way to mix completely different things. Its like saying: Gender exists hence men are better. No one suggests this kinda thing.

Race is not pseudo science. Race is real. White people are meaningfully different from Black people. Its not bad to be different. It doesn't mean one is different from the other. You can't beat racism by claiming race itself is not real!

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dofm 9 hours ago | parent [-]

In what ways are white people meaningfully different from black people?

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jdrek1 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Skin color and (facial) bone structure for example. Like it or not, but humans have adapted to living in different climates and have different ancestral lines. Take a picture of an average black person and edit to white skin, it will still not look like a white person.

As the commenter above you already said, this is not a bad thing. People on _hacker_news should be able to understand that being able to define the ==/!= operators on something does not automatically mean that you can define < and >.

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dofm 6 hours ago | parent [-]

All white people are different from all black people in the same way?

They can be told apart like this, absent skin colour?

	▲	jdrek1 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is more obvious with some and a bit more nuanced with others, but in general yes. Just like you can typically see the flat/wide nose in Africans and Asians but not Europeans. Again, there is no implication of one being "better" than the other here, but don't pretend it's impossible to categorize people like this.

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AnimalMuppet 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Probability of inheriting sickle cell anemia, for one.

	▲	dofm 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All black people? Or just those from some regions or ethnicities? The point I am making is that “white” and “black” simply aren’t races on any biological basis. It’s nothing more than a social distinction. The level of scientific ignorance on display here is weird.