
TheStonerOne
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When we talk about continental or regional variation between humans, that is within the context of a small 0.5% difference at BEST. Humans are more like 99.8% similar on average. This means we're less diverse than:
Dog breeds
Chimpanzees
Gorillas
Orangutans
Differences in morphology aren't enough to create subspecies or even breeds. Genetic variation in humans is clinal but doesn't amount to speciation.
But for what it's worth, even if one could entertain the concept of "race" for a second, it still wouldn't promote what those who call themselves "white supremacists" promote.
If you promote "race" you have to be consistent. You can't arbitrarily consider certain humans from the malleable borders of one part of the smallest part of Eurasia to be part of a "race" to the exclusion of others. That's stupid. You can't believe that arbitrary/artificial boundaries between the Bosphorus and Thrace create things that don't exist.
But it never was about truth. It was about ideology. EVEN when we entertain the concept of "race" it STILL doesn't promote what so-called "white supremacists" argue.
Dog breeds
Chimpanzees
Gorillas
Orangutans
Differences in morphology aren't enough to create subspecies or even breeds. Genetic variation in humans is clinal but doesn't amount to speciation.
But for what it's worth, even if one could entertain the concept of "race" for a second, it still wouldn't promote what those who call themselves "white supremacists" promote.
If you promote "race" you have to be consistent. You can't arbitrarily consider certain humans from the malleable borders of one part of the smallest part of Eurasia to be part of a "race" to the exclusion of others. That's stupid. You can't believe that arbitrary/artificial boundaries between the Bosphorus and Thrace create things that don't exist.
But it never was about truth. It was about ideology. EVEN when we entertain the concept of "race" it STILL doesn't promote what so-called "white supremacists" argue.