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Posted By: David Vargha

There are distinct biological differences that have been labeled as "races". The fact that we label or name things to identify them does not make them "constructs". If so, your name and my name are constructs and the whole value of the term "construct" is rendered moot. Most complex life shares an incredible amount of biological similarity. I believe that the DNA of a zebra and a human share something like 97% of the same makeup. But that doesn't make me a zebra. That I am human is not a social construct. It is a fact.

That you don't like my reductio ad absurdum (reduction to the ridiculous) argument about Hitler's Germany is because it is in fact, ridiculous. But that's my point. Adherents of the notion of "constructs" are forced to come to such ridiculous conclusions if they are to maintain intellectual honesty. QED - the notion of constructs is flawed at its roots.

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