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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You've obviously not understood the essay. Again:

the analogy between races and dog breeds incorrectly privileges biology over the social and historical factors that have led to the development of racial constructs, ...genetic data fails to substantiate the racial categorizations used in the U.S. today and their equivalence to dog breeds.

[–]Vrepit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, little padwan. Race and ethnicity is a scientific/biological construct, anything else is an imaginative abstraction. There are proven genetic "clusters" with common traits, including physical and psychological similarities/propensities. This concludes that either through intentional reproductive strategy (eugenics) or genetic engineering, that this will enhance and bring these common traits to dominant expression. Why are you anti-science?

For example my little simpleton friend: If a group of people with a genetic proclivity for being a.) tall b.) musically gifted c.) tendency for obsessive compulsive disorder are intentionally preferred and then promoted via reproduction through 3-ish + generations, then their offspring will exhibit a greater than 50+ % tendency toward dominant expression of these 3 traits. You know this. Don't be so fking stupid and don't play me or anyone else for being as stupid as you're feigning to be.

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OK - silly billy - I think we're done