Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?

lars@lemmy.sdf.org to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 293 points –
  1. never signed up for anything like this,
  2. never donated to or signed up for emails from the DNC, et al.,
  3. political texts like this come all the time, and
  4. I hesitate to reply “stop” because I don’t want them to know this is a live number (is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?)
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You can choose the former to an extent, but the latter is biologically inherited.

So Obama isn't African American, got it.

The point is, people inherit physical characteristics common to their enthnicity

Ethnicity is not genetic. Are you one of those yanks spewing nonsense such as "I'm 23% French that's why I like mayonnaise".

“race is imaginary”

That anyone said that is something you're imagining. Also just because we're imagining something doesn't mean it's not real. A judge is just a human in fancy clothes imagining to have power over you, try telling them that as a defendant they'll be impressed at your reasoning skills. The bailiffs? Only imagining that they have to follow the judge's orders.

Ethnicity is not genetic.

I told you, ignore the genetic bit if you want to quibble about it. I'm talking about inherited physical characteristics. What would you call it? Pick a word, whatever. That's what I'm talking about, and that's the basis for race.

I’m talking about inherited physical characteristics.

That's genetics.

Ok, there you have it. I think that's an incorrect usage of the word, but for the sake of discussion, let's call it genetics. It's a real, physical, biological phenomenon and it's not purely a social construct (except in the vague sense that all of interpreted reality is a social construct).

What is real and physical about Harris being black when looked from one perspective, and as white when looked at from another?