RACEScience is screwed - the refusal to accept the results of multiple studies and experiments because it doesn’t align with political beliefs of progressives.
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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (3 children)
You can't test for all issues though.
Black people have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes. You won't know if each individual has that higher risk so you have to tell the whole group to be careful. There is no way to be nice about it.
[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
Nothing wrong with that. Telling someone that they are part of a risk group for something isn't problematic in any way. Just by living in America you are at a higher risk of that though. So the question comes to play is the risk factor due to genetics or lifestyle?
[–]Wanderingthehalls 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
Women of European and Asian ethnicities have significantly higher rates of bone density loss post menopause than other women. That's very unlikely to have anything to do with lifestyle as women in Ireland, Japan, Sweden and Mongolia all have different lifestyles and many will have as much/more in common with the black population of London than each other. In all likelihood, the higher rates of Osteopenia/Osteoporosis are a result of Neanderthal, and possibly Denisovan, heritage. In the same way that people with Neanderthal dna have higher rates of autoimmune diseases. Or East Asian need to use a different BMI guide as they are negatively affected by body fat at lower levels. Or how I can drink litres of milk every week without any issue while most adult humans would have some degree of discomfort/ill health.
There are health differences between people of different ethnicities. Some are due to lifestyle/diet others from genetic background, some of those genetic factors are even caused by ancient lifestyles, like the mutation for lactase persistence that is common in northwest Europe and north east Africa.
[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
And you will find no disagreement here. Your ancestral genetic history does have an effect on your risk factors for developing diseases, we can even discuss the elephant in the room and discuss genetic hereditary intelligence that nobody socially conscious will dare to touch.
Yet neither of those things touch on my point that how we choose to group people isn't based on fundamentally objective criteria. We could easily say that since women of asian and European ethnicities share the same trait, are they not the same race? Why?
All I say is that unlike sex where there are two very clear categories. Race doesn't share anything remotely similar that encompasses the concept. We can choose any criteria or set of criteria to define racial groups but there is little reason to define them in this way socially since the entire purpose of race cognition in humans is to indicate intribe and outribe relationships. We've evolved to recognize our own kin because the people that did not would be killed in our ancient past.
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