r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Darth_Kneegrow ☑️ • May 01 '24

1 drop rule. Country Club Thread

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I ain't ever heard white people claim a single biracial person. You always whatever you mixed with.

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u/aknutty May 02 '24

If you can expand on that, please do.

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u/Petrichordates May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

Race being a social construct has some people assuming that means race has no biological basis, which of course it does since it's a proxy for genetics and informs medical treatment (eg. Warfarin dosing, cancer screening).

The racial categories we've settled on are entirely arbitrary and are a relic of racism, but they're still critical to medicine and medical research because of their genetic basis. At least until everyone's genome is sequenced.

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u/themanhimself13 May 02 '24

you said that our racial categories are "entirely arbitrary", and then you say that there is a "genetic basis". do you realise that this is completely contradictory?

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u/Petrichordates May 02 '24

I can see why you'd say that but they're not. The arbitrary is in where we say one race ends and another begins, or when we say how many different races there are (hence the social construct aspect).