Thread: Humans vary biologically, but race is a social construct

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

Genetically speaking, a white person is likely to have just as many genetic differences with another white person as they are with a black person.

Irrelevant. There's also more variation within the human species than there is between humans and chimps. Are you saying that we're the same species?

Originally Posted by cmind

Irrelevant. There's also more variation within the human species than there is between humans and chimps. Are you saying that we're the same species?

No but it likewise nullifies any argument to support racial differences rooted in molecular genetics, and requires all claims to be based on the study of traits, not genes.