As someone who despises racism, would it better to advocate for shaming anyone who talks along racial lines, irrespective of their intent. Trying to make it so whether someone is different based solely on their race into an unasked question, irrelevant to everybody.
Share your thoughts — Judaka
There are so many ways to classify people but we choose to focus on race and for me, that's the main cause of racism. By talking about things in a racial framework all the time, it's inevitable that people think about things racially and form opinions about — Judaka
It would just mean that, for example, hip hop is no longer "black music" but just music that anyone can make and listen to and it's as relevant that mostly black people do as it is that mostly people with blonde hair do. The way "black" people speak just becomes a way of speaking for people from particular areas. — Judaka
Yeah, well it got created as an opposite to black rather than trying to be an accurate description. I don't like it either but I guess I don't care that much. — Judaka
the term 'white' sort of does what you were talking about in the OP..it kind of sets up a way of looking at race in a binary way; ie black and white...if you do or have to identify, and tick the 'white' box, then that disregards all the variations of how someone's genetics are formed..my ancestors must have come from all over the place, like Scandinavia to Italy etc...but forget all the nuance in all that 'you're wither black or white etc'...this might lead to a polarisation in how people see things, unnecessarily. I'd certainly rather tick another box, like 'mainly of European descent'..or something....how would I know exactly what section of the world all my ancestors came from historically? — wax
Certainly there is much genetic variation among Africans, but my illustration was meant to point out how we’re all related, making the term “race” effectively meaningless. — Noah Te Stroete
Sure, I guess “race” has some useful meaning, but when it engenders identity politics it becomes a problem. — Noah Te Stroete
Furthermore, you are now conflating “race” and “species”. — Noah Te Stroete
Individuals shouldn’t identify too strongly with race, in my opinion. It causes social problems (to put it mildly). If everyone had their own genomes sequenced, then medicine wouldn’t have to rely on race factors in diagnoses, for example, and it would show how we are all unique and yet still related. — Noah Te Stroete
I read that in India doctors often ask which cast a patient has come from, because the different casts have historically been so separate that they have ended up with different genetic sets. And the difference is important I think due to the different reactions to certain drugs. — wax
I am not trying to remove all prejudice, I am just asking whether if you wanted to remove a prejudice, whether it would be best to try to make it irrelevant interpretively or not. — Judaka
but the world also needs welders. — Noah Te Stroete
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