Quote (killg0re @ 19 Oct 2014 23:11)
Race is an informal descriptor of human population dofferences. To claim it doesn't exist or the differences observed are imagined is incredibly retarded, I wouldn't take anything a modern anthropologist says seriously anyways. The primary reason being, generally at least, they believe in a dogmatic strain of cultural determinism, one which declines to accept any evidence that punctures their ideologies. If they were to acknowledge this dissonance, their ideas involving society would be invalidated.
Concerning human biological differences I would be much more concerned with what biologists think, anthropology has fallen to the same poison as sociology and other studies that give cultural determinist ideologues an inch of credibility.
Quote (killg0re @ 19 Oct 2014 23:43)
I simply don't care about what society feels, it isn't important to me in anyway, and I won't let it create a bias in reality.
The mere fact their traits can be passed on, (i.e., inherited), is enough of an observation to conclude that the superficial physiological traits race describes have a biological component. You cannot create distinction between physical & biological differences for something as obvious as heredity, the act of reproduction is one of nature.
I'm not sure if it is a fear of acknowledging this that liberals have, that people are different in ways only nature controlled for, I am not scared of difference and it doesn't necessitate a reason for intolerance regardless if others incorrectly use it for this.
Quote (ChrisKz @ 19 Oct 2014 23:33)
It is retarded? Why do you think that? If such an informal descriptor is causing any sort of society a lot of pain, why block out anything that will try to lessen the stress? Taking the negativity into account I still agree with them. Every single race can mate with another, and have their traits passed on to their offspring from both of the parents. This is quite concluding that what we see as race is simply a description of humans with different physical traits, and not biological traits, than anyone else.
You sound quite knowledgeable with the way you phrased what you said.
I can walk out to the pasture and sprinkle powdered sugar and sparkles on a steaming pile of bullshit, but guess what?