What are your arguments against "race is a social construct because the category of race does not correspond to biologically meaningful groups/entities" and "skin color differentiation is real but that doesn't mean that people with different skin colors are different races"?

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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Here's a thought experiment I find useful and helpful for anyone who wants to get started on thinking about race. Ask yourself a simple question. Why wouldn't evolution have the same impact on human mammals as it has on all other species in existence. Within all animals we see sub-speciation and divergent evolution -- i.e. the development of 'races' -- in populations that share common ancestry but have been separated and exposed to different environmental pressures, founder effects etc. So the claim that this WOULD NOT occur in humanity is unusual and quite extraordinary given that you would expect in any standard theory of evolution for humans to be impacted the same way all other animals have been.

That's the first question to ask yourself. If humans are not racially divided then you need an entirely new theory of evolution to explain that and someone needs to tell you why otherwise they're just liars or dogmatic egalitarians.