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Race Realist's avatar

Excellent. It's so nice to see someone grasping the contours of the problem. Now I think Aristotle would not say the matter is "metaphysical," though he would insist that it is a question of form, which cannot reduce to mere codes or atomic parts.

The entire idea of DNA as a "blueprint" is obtuse to a degree that our descendants will wonder at the fact that people became so enchanted with it. Does DNA resemble a person? It's one link in a whole chain of processes - processes somehow directed by something not reducible to atoms, codes, parts.

Studying genetics opens the door to seeing races as different at a stochastic level, but this is not yet to grasp race. This is why politically "safe" scientists keep speaking about "populations" -- objects not quite objects. They want to see race in nominal terms, as if it could be otherwise just as an accidental matter. But this is absurd. Traits don't accrue as some kind of patch-up or amalgam -- they cohere purposively. When someone gets a sense of this coherence and says "white" "black" or so on, then they are "getting" race... often much better than the statisticians do.

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Stefatanus's avatar

The Mainstream Media have developed a new Race. They are called "youths"

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