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Leftists and liberals are rare in this forum, but there are some and when it comes to race they usually always use the same arguments. So I think I will just make a post debunking some of these.
First argument: We are 99.9% the same
First and foremost, it is true that humans are 99.9% the same genetically in terms of base pair identity (if you also include variation in copy number variants, the value will be lower). This is because most genotypes don't vary at all, so we are theoretically all the same. Using this logic, one can also find that we are 97-99% the same as chimpanzees depending on how you count things. Maybe 20% with bananas. But what does this matter for race being real? Nothing. No arguments are even given about how some genetic identity level relates to the plausibility of race differences in some trait. As we know with some well known cases, even minor genetic differences can have huge impacts. Consider alcohol intolerance, lactose intolerance, the Y chromosome's SRY gene (that makes you into a man basically but is only 827 base pairs long), altitude adaptations in Tibetans, Andeans, and Ethiopians, unusually large spleens, skin color and its associations with skin cancer and vitamin D levels, the 1000s of genetic disorders that often involve minor changes (sometimes a single letter) but that is the difference between life and death. Clearly, some relatively small genetic differences matter a lot, and we already know they vary by population. So saying that humans are 99.9% identical is not really saying anything relevant at all.Second argument: More variation within races than between them
Again, a true statement, promoted by communist activist Richard Lewontin. - This argument was made by some not particularly bright guy in the thread "I hate when low IQ retards try to disprove scientific theories". - This is now well known as Lewontin's fallacy. I don't really need to cover it in depth here as this was done by other people already. But I'll give the TL;DR: No one has ever substantiated the hidden premise that racial variation must exceed 50% to be relevant or significant. Lewontin just made it up for who knows what reason, somehow it gets repeated ad nauseam.Interestingly, this would also tell us that Wolves and Coyotes are not really different from eachother, but they are.