Racism - It isn't dead

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Originally Posted by tsugomaru

It's not a contradiction. I stated it was something we made up. It is not by definition that Africans and Europeans are different races. Cats and dogs are different races.

Humans are still humans. Africans are humans. Europeans are humans.

Aside from that, I'm pretty sure we are on the same level of understanding.

~Tsugomaru

Yes it is a contradiction.

Look up the definition of race. You can't just start changing the definitions of words when making an argument and try to pass it off as valid.

'race' and 'human' are not the same thing. You are clearly confused here. Human, or Homosapien is a SPECIES. RACES are genetic divisions within a species where members of such races can interbreed with other races in the same species. It's a sub-species.

For the record, cats and dogs are different species, not races.


Yes, all races are still part of the genus Homo, and the species Sapien, but that doesn't mean we are all the same race...which exactly why people still play the race card.

And you can't say that race doesn't exist either, because really, we made up the word to fit our definition of the word, so of course it exists under the context it's being presented in.

I could personally give a rats ass about what 'race' someone is. I don't judge someone by what they look like. But that doesn't mean other people don't, and that doesn't mean there arn't subconscious stereotypes floating around in society.