what are the arguments against the existence of race?

Answer 1

There is a really good one by craig vetner in response to james watsons racist view on intelligence, as an example africa has the most genetic diversity in the world, east africans can be more genetically similar to europeans that west africans if one african country can have an average height of 6'3 (masai warriors) and others 4'9 (pygmies) and be as different from eachother as the pygmy and a norweigan then one canc onclude that skin colour isn't synonymous with race. Once you realise that then our standard racial categories begin to degrade having to consider what degrees of genetic similarity classify a group. Also because of they way genetics works a man can only have gotten his Y chromosome from his father and his fathers father etc etc hence all that genetic information on comes from one person up to 140 000 years ago (Y-Chromosome adam) in which case if he was asian and i am european i may have a large proportion of asian genes but none phenotypically active i.e. directly visible, can i say i'm 10% partly asian because of the affect of one ancestor a thousand years ago its too tricky to tell the main point is there is no scientific structure to the classification often even religion is allowed to define race which isn't scientific at all.

Answer 2

The idea that human race does not exist is on that I have only recently heard, though apparently this is an idea that has been brewing for awhile. One argument is that one can pick a single characteristic, e.g. skin color and that would group certain populations together, but if you pick a different characteristic, e.g. genetic resistance to malaria, you might group very different people together. This is a non-argument, because race is defined as the combination of many attributes, not a single trait. Another argument is that there are no distinct cutoff points between races, only "clines" as anthropologists might say. This is another non-argument, as this would negate the idea of race (subspecies) among most species. An amusingingly titled paper from an anthropologist in the 1990s was titled: "If races don't exist, why are forensic anthropologists so good at identifying them?" You might think that was a rhetorical question intended to mock the notion that races do not exist, but you would be wrong. To paraphrase the authors answer: "race does not exist, but we can identify it."
Bottom line is that race denial is the politically correct thing to do. Race does exist and today, it can be determined with high precision from ones DNA.

Answer 3

There is such a thing as race, its just why should it matter or raise issues just because there is such a thing? just if u want to paint the picture of an orange and u have black in ur colour palette as well as orange, why should the presence of black affect ur ability to use the orange colour to paint an orange?

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Truth is NOT a victim of political correctness -- like anything, political correctness can be likened to a tool, it is how you use the tool that misleads people into thinking the tool as a good tool or a bad tool, in this case, political correctness has misled some weaker minds into thinking truth is distorted as a result of it.
Truth can be a victim of people who believe that there is a distinction between races. Some of those people have the incredibly warped view that a particular race is superior to others. E.g. Hitler?? ring any bells??
Want to know the truth -- The fact is there is such a thing as race, but so long as people continue to believe that one race is superior to the other, not that the fact that in every race you have people who are just a bit cleverer or faster, the races will find it very hard to learn from each other and progress in this ever competitive world

Answer 4

Here's the best argument against: Race is a culturally based (biased?) designation, not a scientific (biological) one.

Answer 5

Nothing besides the incredibly inane notion that noticing the 'breeds of man' will somehow cause you to abuse them.

The first victim of Political Correctness is Truth.

Answer 6

Blacks and whites are becoming much closer.Whites are supporting blacks more.