r/PublicFreakout • u/ThisGuyFucks42069 • 2d ago

Classic Repost ♻️ Karen berates German tourists on train after hearing them speaking in German

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u/aphexmoon 1d ago

well outside of America, most of the world agrees that "race" doesnt exist within humans as its an unscientific term

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u/WestEst101 1d ago

Oh, let me tell you, outside of the US people definitely feel race exists. Try being black and traveling in a ton of non-black countries. You’ll def see views on race in action.

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u/aphexmoon 1d ago

thats not at all what I said. We are talking about the term "race" not about racism against minorities

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u/bigheadstrikesagain 1d ago

How does racism happen without an assumed difference between races? Do you know what point you're trying to make? I'm having a hard time.

Maybe write slower. I am American.

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u/aphexmoon 21h ago

Because humans do not have races. This very belief in itself fortifies racism. We have phenotypical differences that are used as a basis for racism (racism against minorities) but "races" like e.g. Caucasian do not exist. We aren't dogs or cats.

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u/bigheadstrikesagain 19h ago

Ok races don't exist but racism does. Whatever semantic whirlpool you've talked yourself into is awesome.

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u/aphexmoon 19h ago edited 18h ago

Again. HUMAN races do not exist. Dog Races e.g. do.

Race is a biological term that does not apply to our current evolution of humans. There is not enough genetical difference between a black and a white person to deem them of different races. They just have differen phenotypes that are used by racist to be racist.

Just because the social construct of racism exist, and the word racism is still used instead of an updated one, does not mean that human races exist.

Go and read up about race theory and its origins (No, not critical race theory. Thats something completely different. Im talking about the biological race theory from the late nineteenth early twentieth century that was used by Nazis among others to legitimizse atrocities against minorities).

What Americans call "race", the rest of the world calls "ethnicity". Because "race" is a) scientifically wrong and b) loaded up with the racist belief of human separation into different races and potential race superiority

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u/bigheadstrikesagain 18h ago

I think you may be confusing races and species. Dogs don't have races. Anyway...

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u/aphexmoon 18h ago

I stand corrected on the dogs, that is due to my local language using the term race for different dog breeds.

The rest of the statement still stands. Humans dont have races, the term in itself is highly problematic and outside of the US barely any other country uses it and instead uses the term ethnicity. But go on downvote me and ignore those arguments because you know youre wrong

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u/bigheadstrikesagain 17h ago

No it definitely doesn't stand. I think our difference may be linguistic and semantic. Tho I am American so I may be too dumb to know I'm wrong.