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dofmyesterday at 3:45 PM1 replyview on HN

Black and white are not races. They are racial discrimination categories. People with black skin are not one identifiable group except "black skin". Which is a heritable trait that affects pigmentation used to create a social discrimination category. It does not make a single meaningfully identifiable group in any other sense. (It's not even consistently the same trait, on a biological level)

You are talking about sociopolitical race discrimination and suggesting it has absolute, immutable biological mappings. It does not. This actually is quite close to real racism.


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simianwordsyesterday at 6:33 PM

Black and white are not races?

Here’s an excerpt from BLM

> Additionally, Black Americans are among the top two racial groups who are most at risk of fatal encounters with police

https://blacklivesmatter.com/blm-day/

Stop trying to make normal people use academic definitions.