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[–] -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

No, they actually can't be. Because "white" is not a race.

Look up the history of that term. Most of the people who are white now would not have been 100 years ago. And still no one can agree whether hispanic means white or not.

ETA: The whole idea of race is a social construct and a fantasy with no basis in reality, much less biology. By stating that "white" is not a race, I did not mean to imply that the idea of race is legitimate.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I did not mean to imply that the idea of race is legitimate.

    Yeah. Race, in general, is a fundamentally unsound way to categorize people. Humans are clinal in every single characteristic associated with race. Attempting to boil a multidimensional continuum down to a binary distinction is a fool's errand.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    What's your point? Do you really think I was asserting that "black" is a race?

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