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A biologist can correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand "race" in humans to be little different than, say, hair-color. Perhaps there's data showing that brunettes are smarter than blondes?

EDIT: Never mind, user krapp's comment is what I was reaching for, "Race isn't biological, it's a social and political construct."


It's not completely correct, though- "race" as we currently classify it has a strong correlate to genetic background and self-identified race is often used as a proxy for genetic background.

Race is obviously biological.. You can determine someone's ancestry and ethnicity by their DNA...

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/PCA-clustering-Principal...


But it is biological. You can try to obfuscate and use big words all you want, but it is, in fact, biological.

No one said it wasn't biological. Hair color is also biological.

Again, downvoted for being sane



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