Question: if race isn’t real, are you fine with medical research continuing to being dominated by studies on “whites”, and ignoring whether it applies just as appropriately to other (not real) races?
If race isn’t real, then as a white person, my bone marrow should be just as compatible for transplant at the same probability for blacks, asians, and “mixed race” people as it is for other whites, right?
I totally agree that monitoring every single human being on the planet, and recording and analyzing their individual DNA and second by second logs of their biomarkers and external environment from womb to death would definitely be “ideal”. But we aren’t there. Yet.
In the context of trying to manage finite resources and time, broad messy abstractions have been and will continue to be crucially important, despite not being pure. Trying to erase things like race with an ideological handwave is harmful.
If race isn’t real, then as a white person, my bone marrow should be just as compatible for transplant at the same probability for blacks, asians, and “mixed race” people as it is for other whites, right?
I totally agree that monitoring every single human being on the planet, and recording and analyzing their individual DNA and second by second logs of their biomarkers and external environment from womb to death would definitely be “ideal”. But we aren’t there. Yet.
In the context of trying to manage finite resources and time, broad messy abstractions have been and will continue to be crucially important, despite not being pure. Trying to erase things like race with an ideological handwave is harmful.