Edit for context:

My view is transracial isn’t valid and this person is trying to dogwhistle. I’ve already blocked this person, and now they’re going after my friend saying my friend is transphobic because they disagreed with them about transracial being a thing (they’re purposefully leaving the context out so my friend looks transphobic when what my friend really said was transgender is valid but transracial isn’t)

  • wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org
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    9 days ago

    To quote the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on Race (human categorization):

    Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. While partly based on physical similarities within groups, race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning.

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning

      Physical traits are passed through genes onto kids, thus kids have much the same traits as their parents. Asian parents have asian kids. Why are we doing elementary biology here?

      This really isn’t the argument we should be latching onto.

      • wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org
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        9 days ago

        I’m not saying the physical traits you are talking about aren’t real. I’m saying you’re using the wrong word to describe them. Biologically there is no such thing as different human races. You are talking about ethnic groups.

        If you take two people from an African country they can be genetically closer to an European or Asian person than to each other.