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Originally Posted by ThePits
no, dictionaries do not provide scientific or technical definitions. dictionaries are for schoolchildren and newspaper writers.
im asking you to distinguish between race as a POLITICAL notion and race as a BIOLOGICAL notion. the dictionary and most people conflate both. people who study the subject don't.
the "race" that we discuss on a daily basis in bars and marketplaces is a POLITICAL notion, but people are deluded to think that it has a SCIENTIFIC basis.
words are funny things. they are sloppy containers for SEMANTIC FIELDS. any sort of worthy discussion on that subject requires a strict definition of the subject at hand, and common dictionaries are not good at that at all. much of the work of academia is about defining what words actually mean.
you remember the recent upheaval about pluto not being a planet? if the gross physical word presents such problems, imagine what challenge social and biological phenomena present for any serious inquiry. i mean serious. on the internet, we are all talking shite.
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Yes I know about the political hijacking of the word "race" and despise everything politically motivated exploiters have doen with it
As for the biological definition of race, are you saying that there is no scientific evidence as to the existence of different races?
What was the outcome of the pluto thing anyway? Is it still a planet?
Oh and that pasteurised shite, is that skimmed or semi skimmed?