It came up at work where my Deputy PM has said the same talking point I've heard where "Race is a social construct. Everyone came from Africa" -says African woman
I've always been pretty dubious about who quotes these lines and try to understand the premise it comes from and how does it lend or detract from a conversation.
Here's something I've always wanted to ask. Let's say race is 100% socially constructed....then what are the implications of saying that? Does "race" then become something we no longer discuss? Do we discuss it anyways without any scientific guide for direction?
Be sure not to conflate the being of a race with the racial culture. Culture is a societal construct. Black culture and White culture are names we happen to give practices engaged primarily of a certain race. The question was whether or not race was a social construct. Not racial culture
@SteelandSouls I did actually call that out. The discussion was about Rachel Dolezal and her race changing or whatever. And African woman was saying well race is a social construct, so if she says she's black and we can trace her ancestry back to Africa, then fine, she can claim it. I responded "Can she then claim the 'black experience'?" Apparently claiming the black experience is a game changer.
That the people who argue that race is a social construct have successfully pushed a definition of race that places it as a social construct, rather than undermine "race" as a central concept
Or rather, this: in that particular brand of black gangsta culture, it’s worse to call the police on a thief, wherein you supposedly would get stitches, than to actually _being_ the thief, which is a source of pride and “street cred”
