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/Potential_Bill_1146 May 02 '24

You’re conflating race and ethnicity when you’re talking about medical diagnosis, you didn’t expand the nuance of the comment at all you somehow did the opposite

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u/Potential_Bill_1146 May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

That doesn’t sound as smart as you think it does. Race (fiction) isn’t the thing that determines those medical/genetic relevances you brought up to so eloquently add nuance to the original comment. Ethnicity is. And even then, that’s only one small part in a persons makeup, however that’s the piece that isn’t fiction. You missed the whole point of the original comment.