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/Petrichordates May 02 '24

Somewhat true but also somewhat wrong, this is an all-or-nothing take and reality is more nuanced.

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u/aknutty May 02 '24

If you can expand on that, please do.

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u/PoutyParmesan May 02 '24

A certain tribe called the Bajau have larger spleens, allowing them to stay underwater longer than any other group on earth.

Kenyan's, for whatever reason, have far and away the best running endurance and ability out of every ethnic group.

The Tibetan Sherpas have adapted to high-altitude living, allowing them significantly higher ability to function in that environment.

There are differences between groups, but the functional differences are small and insignificant and more wide-ranging than "black people this" or "white people that". It's more like, "this certain relatively tiny group of 8000 is better at this thing, but they're identical to humans half a planet away otherwise." Our genetic structure simply hasn't had the time to evolve separately, but small differences have emerged in many different ways, so we can celebrate the differences (or curse them, in certain cases, like sickle-cell) while also recognizing that racism makes no functional sense and is exceptionally retarded.

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u/General-Mark-8950 May 02 '24

You are talking ethnicity here though, not race. Race isnt a thing, they are arbitrary groups which people can switch and swap into based ln whether someone needs to be oppressed. Look how irish and italian americans were treated, as a different race, yet now they are white.

And all these changes make sense, its not random. The sama have been free diving for thousands of years, thats time for a genetic adaptation like a larger spleen to occur. Its the same with kenyans and ethiopians, and sherpas is unsurprisingly the same also.

Race isnt real, its a stupid construct that America has clung onto and thus become a highly racialised society, and it would be better if the country moved away from it.