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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
There's no such thing as "race" - and i believe that anyone who labels humans as belonging to a "race" has by definition some racist opinions.
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I had a longer post typed up but I crashed and lost it. I have to disagree though. While Race isn't the scientifically correct term, I don't think it is racist. There are population genetics and people ARE inherently physically, possibly mentally and definitely culturally different from each other. It's not racist to acknowledge that there are differences and that certain conditions occur more often within certain groups. Example, Black males are at a higher risk of prostate cancer, Fair Skinned red heads like myself are at higher risk of skin cancer. It's useful knowledge, It's not racist to know or to point it out. It's only racist when people use those differences as justification for their prejudice. When our(or at least my) ancestors ran into less advanced cultures we confused our "cumulative" knowledge with being a superior "race" when in fact we showed how primitive we were by treating equal beings as harshly as we did.