Does TLR think race exists?

[The 2020 New Member]

and if so how does it work? i heard somebody say that races aren't a real thing. for example 'asian' wasn't really a term until people from that region started coming to america. before then, they were japanese, chinese and so forth...but here they're asian americans. under different circumstances, the same goes for black folks and even cacs.

so does race even really exist?

 

[kp404]

Yep, socially

 

[Matt504]

and if so how does it work? i heard somebody say that races aren't a real thing. for example 'asian' wasn't really a term until people from that region started coming to america. before then, they were japanese, chinese and so forth...but here they're asian americans. under different circumstances, the same goes for black folks and even cacs.

so does race even really exist?

It definitely exists for me, I'm reminded every day that I'm Black.

what do you racially identify as?

 

[Arishok]

I mean there are phenotypical differences but these are based on a part of the region your ancestors adapted to but as far as race as we see it today, it only exists socially.

 

[The 2020 New Member]

It definitely exists for me, I'm reminded every day that I'm Black.

what do you racially identify as?

i'm almost completely black as far as i know personally (which is right before 1900). but if you go all the way back, everyone was pretty much from the same place, right? i'm really not sure. that's why i asked. like...how did we come up with races and is there a real biological different between people? not just eye color or darker skin.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

I'm not sure how anyone could deny that it exists socially. People refer to it all the time. It's at least a social construct.

 

[Arishok]

i'm almost completely black as far as i know personally (which is right before 1900). but if you go all the way back, everyone was pretty much from the same place, right? i'm really not sure. that's why i asked. like...how did we come up with races and is there a real biological different between people? not just eye color or darker skin.

White Europeans came up with race to justify slavery I believe around the 1500s or 1600s. Back before race was a thing, people identified with their nationality which makes me laugh when white, as a whole, try to say they are superior but you look at their past and even some traces today and see English fighting with Spanish fighting with Italian fighting with Irish.

 

[The 2020 New Member]

I'm not sure how anyone could deny that it exists socially. People refer to it all the time. It's at least a social construct.

i think that's fair to say. so does that mean that it's acceptable to call people of african descent 'white' for any reason? vice versa? what are the circumstances and should their be limits?

should we aim to get rid of race as a concept in our society?

 

[observe]

No..there's only one race and that's the human race

Before the concept of race which was about 2,500 years ago or around the time Greece came into power (even tho Greece was pro white not racist).we were all friends and we didnt judge someone by the color of their skin..

 

[jjj123]

genotype vs phenotype....of course there is differences between races in fact vast and huge other than color are you srsly that dumb?

 

[kp404]

i think that's fair to say. so does that mean that it's acceptable to call people of african descent 'white' for any reason? vice versa? what are the circumstances and should their be limits?

should we aim to get rid of race as a concept in our society?

Impossible.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

i think that's fair to say. so does that mean that it's acceptable to call people of african descent 'white' for any reason? vice versa? what are the circumstances and should their be limits?

should we aim to get rid of race as a concept in our society?

Are we talking about whether it's acceptable or correct? Or whether it is something that just is?

 

[The 2020 New Member]

Are we talking about whether it's acceptable or correct? Or whether it is something that just is?

i mean is it acceptable. should black people not be offended if they act white at being called white? for example.

 

[Matt504]

i'm almost completely black as far as i know personally (which is right before 1900). but if you go all the way back, everyone was pretty much from the same place, right? i'm really not sure. that's why i asked. like...how did we come up with races and is there a real biological different between people? not just eye color or darker skin.

when white people started to travel around the world they discovered that all the native peoples around the world were colored (non-white) and they also discovered that those colored people disproportionately outnumbered them, and if those colored people were to procreate with them, it wouldn't be long before white was completely bred out.

this was the birth of white supremacy, the fear of genetic annihilation.

Whites needed a way to ensure their survival, and it meant starting a propaganda campaign around the world that they were better than all, they used religion by changing deities to white thus associating god in the minds of the masses with white. they used science to prove that non-whites were inferior and sub-human, and they subjected Africans to hundreds of years of chattel slavery convincing them that they were sub-human, erasing their identities and history in the process and replacing that history with history written by them.

this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface, but I hope it helps a bit.

 

[The 2020 New Member]

Impossible.

or improbable? the circumstances might be extreme, but it could happen, right?