Do we put too much credo into Race?

[OddBeMe]

Science is merely concerned with the classification of things, to study. So there are groups: Genus…but that’s just an observable and even possibly related group of animals. But there’s no ancient bloodline of that “genus”. It branches off to other subsets and on and on…

And I think there’s plenty of evidence that humans are just animals.

Yes, way too much

No, just enough. It’s important

Not enough, we need to protect different blood

[Drewtate]

Absolutely but I think it's important to remember your history, culture and heritage.

I think it's also important to remember that over thousands for years race is not a fixed thing and changes due to mixing with others and climate adaptation. Human adaptation to climate is something that I find very interesting whether it be peoples living at high altitudes in the Himalayas or Andes or the adaptations of various peoples living in the artic. Why don't native Americans grow facial hair? Why are Kenyans so good at running long distance. Why do Africans have afro-textured hair rather than straight hair? Why do some Europeans have either blonde or red hair? Why did Europeans develop male skin and Africans such dark skin? Why are Europeans & middle Easterns able to drink Milk? Why do some people have green or blue eyes? Why some don't get wisdom teeth? Why can some peoples while diving underwater hold their breath longer and see better than the rest of us?

So there's a lot of questions regarding race. One question I would like to know is what did people look like in the past, are racial groups the exact same or did we all look entirely different and are there other races that existed that either died off, were absorbed or mixed with others or changed completely.

[madhatters4]

yes we do. science shows the difference between the races is microscopic. something like the races are 99.999999% similar genetically.

but ain't that like humans? focus on the most minute (as in tiny) difference

[Jersey2]

The issue of race was fading into the background and then Obama came along. People were slowly growing out of race based thoughts and we had come a long way but in 2007 and especially 2011 race was used to replace wealth as the key divider when using Identity Politics. And now we have young people who thats all they know so its here to stay for a long while especially given Critical Race Theory.

[OddBeMe]

Hahaha. Yeah it’s the black guys fault for keeping it alive. Not the massive tea party anti black wave that got Trump into office on the stupid vote.

[Jersey2]

Tea Party was about taxes, as in Taxed Enough Already (TEA). They weren’t anti-black. The anti-black nonsense is made up hysteria for the Left so they consolidate their base and it acts as a springboard to get money for them. Its BS and I’m tired of pretending its not. BLM was the height of this massive fraud which killed people like the young woman who dared say all lives matter.

[OddBeMe]

Yeah and the KKK was for states rights.

[goaded]

We're all the same species, and a lot more similar to each other than, say, dogs are. There are no 20ft or 2ft adult humans, but Chihuahuas and Great Danes exist. (Of course, that's all human's fault.)

[OddBeMe]

Yeah I’ve always wondered if we could breed humans. Like I want a human with curly hair and freckles. We could probably do that like we so dogs. But then those dogs always have a lot of issues.

My parents keep buying from breeders and they’re always sick. Their Walgreens trips take an hour to collect all the meds for their breeder dogs, Lol

[Drewtate]

Well there have been various pigmy populations at various times, still pigmys in africa 3-4ft and there were said to be races of giants from gath in Israel like Goliath so even if the average height in Gath was 6ft to the average Hebrew at 5ft3 they would have been giants especially when taller examples like Goliath appeared, maybe these guys from Gath were on average as tall as the average NBA player at 6ft6.

[OddBeMe]

@Drewtate interesting. So giants technically could've existed if the average male height was 5ft.

[OddBeMe]

I did see a docu about WW1 and how the average American male was 5’7” and 130 pounds. We just came off the depression tho…

[Drewtate]

Certainly possible. I'm mean height is usually genetic, today there are 7ft guys running around the NBA Court. Brittany Grinner is like 6ft9. I'm sure that if you took all the NBA players and all the WBNBA players and left them on an deserted island for 50 years I'm sure they would populate it with some very tall people. Selective breeding definitely works on humans.
Wilt Chamberlain was 7ft1, he was very strong and very fast. In that movie conan the destroyer he dwarfed Arnold swaterznager, that's probably something similar to the warrior goliath and his people
https://youtu.be/BDZK9B4Gu6g?si=1La0xip6gMs9T6WP

[OddBeMe]

@Drewtate you killed my mother my father!

[Drewtate]

https://youtu.be/8xr3i9jpiTE?si=OnS-nvz81jkBIthr
Imagine a guy like wilt in armour with a large sheild and spear or giant club. Terrifying.
Andre the giant was another, here they are both with Arnold
https://images.app.goo.gl/Q3ZJHee6ea5PdGPJ6

[OddBeMe]

@Drewtate love that shot. Andre would prob win in a fight. Maybe wilt if he outlasted his opponents.

[Drewtate]

Wilt was superman. He was far stronger than Arnold

[OddBeMe]

@Drewtate I don’t doubt honestly. Agility is quite the skill, as Ali showed us.

[lightbulb27]

yes, it's a shallow look into another person.

[msc545]

Far too much - only racists care about things like skin color and race.

[OddBeMe]

Yeah.. just been seeing a lot of this in posts regarding Palestine or BLM. I can see this Q is going into the dustbin… lol

[Juxtapose]

The concept of race is unscientific and thus should be eradicated.

[Anonymous]

Yes way too much. Which is why ending racist shit like race based affirmative actions in college admissions are good to anyone except true racists who are 100% who this question had in mind.

[Sevenpointfive]

protect your species man.