To all of the people who say "race doesn't exist" then say "white people are evil". Can you prove someone is white?
Race as trivial as many people claim it to be is an important factor in affirmative action and hate crime laws. Which brings us to a question: how exactly do you decide, "this person is white" or "this person is black"? It obviously can't be something genetic or biological since you're a strong proponent of race-denialism.
You don't really want to answer that. I know. It would point out your double standards, cognitive dissonance, and doublethink.
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Anonymous2012-03-07 13:34
If there are no significant genetic differences between populations, then:
"voluntarily segregated all-white and all-black societies would be equal and there would be no ethical or logical argument against such societies. It is only if the races are not equal that arguments (not necessarily valid arguments) can be made for integration or the immigration of one race into the homeland of another race; and
"diversity cannot be 'celebrated' and it cannot be a 'strength' as there is no racial diversity of any significance."
(MacLaren, A., internet post, "When Logic Fails," Mar. 2, 2006). "Ironically, denial of the reality of race often prefaces a denunciation of race bias, with little explanation given of how people can respond to a trait that no one possesses and no one understands. It should be obvious as well that repudiating race forbids advocacy of racial preferences, although few critics of the race concept have faulted affirmative action on this account." (Levin, 1997, p. 19). Blacks who blame their failures on the resistance of whites to integration implicitly concede that they are not genetically equal to whites because they are saying that whites can succeed without blacks, but blacks cannot succeed without whites.
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Anonymous2012-03-07 13:35
"Diversity training" also requires a contradiction: "To better treat one another as individuals, we must stop seeing people as individuals, and instead acknowledge their identities as members of a particular group." (Gifford, B., "The Unbearable Whiteness of Being," Washington City Paper, Nov. 12, 1993). It is also illogical to deny the reality of race yet admit the reality of breeds of dogs, as breeds are no different than races. Because diversity destroys the trust needed to function efficiently as a group, it weakens the military. (Hengest, D., "Diversity in the Army," American Renaissance, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan., 2008). 11. "Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it." (Pinker, S., "The Lessons of the Ashkenazim," The New Republic Online, June 26, 2006).