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[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What part of likely similarities in their genetics would be unclear to you, compared to groups much further distanced (e.g. blacks)?

I am asking you WHO are these people that you say have similar genetics? Your answer: the people that I've decided look alike

There is no genetic foundation for race.

There IS a genetic foundation for ethnicity, which is not what you were talking about.

I am telling you that an Indo-European, like say a French person. Is closer genetically to an Iranian Asian, than they are to a "white" Finno-Ugric. Even though they look similar.

There is not anything in the world of science that can be pointed to as "race" or the property of "whiteness" or that all "black" people have in common. That is pseudoscience, you might as well be talking about Pokémon.

Ethnicity is scientific, and has genetic evidence that you can point to. But similar looking ethnicities (similar phenotype) does not mean similar genetics. French are closer to Iranians than Finns. That's measurable. That's science. Your theory about five sub-species is fake news pseudoscience Pokémon games.

[–]Psychosomatic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Pretty sure charmander is different to clafairy bro.

[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Right - charmander is a flying and fire type. It's an evolution of another Pokémon. Charmander and clefairy cannot breed and have viable offspring.

Humans do not have types. Humans are all the same species. Humans have viable (fertile) babies.

The way racists talk about whiteness and blackness is akin to Pokémon.

"This Pokémon likes gugu berries" -> "This race likes chicken"

"This Pokémon evolved to fly" -> "This race evolved to steal"

"This Pokémon is number 146 in the Pokédex" -> "This race is number four of five possible races"

People aren't Pokémon. You can't talk like that about people. Racists try to, but it just doesn't work, because humans are a continuity and pokemon are discreet

[–]Psychosomatic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I disagree. There are types.

There are cool types, such as me.

And then there is you...The uncool. You are clafairy to me