• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s racist that we continue to use racial identifiers even though race science was debunked as pseudoscience some time ago.

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      3 months ago

      This is just a variant of the “I don’t see race” argument. When they say black and we say racist, we’re talking about a social construct, not pure biology. The cop and hiring manager still see people as black. Us refusing to use the word for this construct makes it harder - not easier - to address at a systemic level.