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| making an observation about a race does not have to be racist |
"Race" is a social construction. For me, "gypsy" is not a race, but in some parts of the world it is.
The act of recognizing races to be different from one another is automatically a "racist" act because races do not exist until you create them in your mind.
Example: Alice sees a group of 100 white people. She tests their problem solving skills with an objective test, and find an average score.
Bob sees this group of 100 people and identifies 60 Christians and 40 Jews. To him, these two groups are extremely different races. He runs the same test, and finds that the results show that one group is "smarter" than the other. So what's wrong with saying that Jews are smarter or dumber than Christians?
The problem is that they're the same group until you divide them in your mind. Alice says to Bob, "Jews and Christians aren't seperate races, they're all white!"
Bob says to Alice, "Yes they are, the tests clearly show that one group is smarter than the other, therefore they are seperate groups."
One could argue, black skinned people are physically different than white skinned people. True, but redheads are physically different from blondes, but we don't consider them a race. Why not? It's just as objective.