I have no problem with chatting, i just can't heh.

I would have joined but was tired

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/give-alex-jones-press-credentials-and-sit-him-next-jim-acosta

Yeah I signed that....I would be hillarious if they did it....plz plz plz

I posted Styx's video on it in <#266400976267640833>

possible news out of NYC DOI may be charging De Blasio with interference

What type of interference? Election?

Investigations into mayor corruption...he is trying to pull a Cuomo

Oh.

Dang.

To be fair, crap like this happens in my state (Alabama) with the republicans. Single party systems aren’t a good thing.

The story is just breaking

Ok.

A lot of crap went down with a state representative named mike Hubbard in Alabama.

Yo....is race a social construct? Why or why not?

No. There are enough biological factors to justify a different race in a similar way we classify species.

Ehhhhh

Differences between ethnic groups maybe, but race not so much

Either way it's super blurry and not clear cut at all

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

Yes and no. There is a biological component and there is a social component

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.

I posted in <#266396659062145025> as good as you will get with that argument

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

@Chump_or_Champ the problem is that the word race has two meanings. One meaning refers to to biology and the other is a social construct.

I wonder who is responsible for that 🤔

@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.

I appreciate the delineation, @SteelandSouls

@Beemann what are you implying? Assume I'm stupid. 😏

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

What exactly is the "black experience"?

Waffle House?

^Ha!

Presumably the things that make race a social construct

But I' d be hard-pressed to say that Black culture and the Black experience are the same thing

People are only poor because they are black and they are black because white people say so and that’s why people are poor

Or some other rationale as ridiculous as that

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”

Word, homie

Until that changes there’s no hope in these people ever being an integral part of civilised society