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[BlueTemplar]

This whole discussion is pointless - categorizing people by skin colour is ridiculous for almost all purposes, and also, considering history, racist.

Also, didn't "black" and "n-word" switch meanings as slur/non-slur less than a century ago (and might switch them again in less than a century) ?

[frozenseven → BlueTemplar]

>categorizing people by skin colour is ridiculous for almost all purposes

Sure. But race is most often about genetic (or ethno-linguistic) heritage, not skin color. A person from Japan might have the same skin color as someone from Greece.

[goatlover → frozenseven]

Sub-saharan Africans have greater genetic diversity than other continental populations. Race is just not an accurate categorization.

[helboi4 → goatlover]

Yup. Thanks for talking sense. There are tons of ethnicities in Africa. Which one exactly is the genetically stupid one?

[frozenseven → helboi4]

>There are tons of ethnicities in Africa.

Only three large racial (genetic) groups in Sub-Saharan Africa.

>Which one exactly is the genetically stupid one?

You're trying to turn this into a normative claim, which it is not. And you started with the assumption that people are just saying this stuff for no reason at all.

[malfist → BlueTemplar]

Are you trying to say that people didn't know the n word was offensive in....1996?