The UN 'Experts' are Wrong on Race

Cancel culture is at again and can’t take yes for an answer. This is evident in the reaction to an official report, issued as a response to the BLM movement, by the British Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (BCRED), a body of ten experts drawn from a variety of fields including science, education broadcasting, medicine, and policing, and all of whom except one came from ethnic minority backgrounds. Published on March 31, 2021 the 258-page independent report points out that the dominant narrative on race tends to emphasize abuse rather than progress concerning ethnic minorities in Britain, and that social media, with their large user base, enormously amplifies racist views. The report painted a complex picture of the issue of race in the UK, and among other matters tries to explain why some minority groups do better than others, indicating that in the educational system black African, Indian, and Bangladeshi students do better than white British ones.

The commission was given the task of reviewing inequality in the UK, and focused on the issues of education, employment, crime and policing, and health. Contrary to cancel culture critics who argue that the official report ignored the role of “structural racism.” BCRED demonstrated that disparities persist, that racism and discrimination affect people’s life, and that racist attitudes exist in society and in institutions, and that action is necessary to tackle these attitudes. But the BCRED report also argues that although disparities exist between ethnic groups many factors other than racism may be the root cause. The report did not deny that institutional racism exists in the UK but did not find conclusive evidence of it in the specific areas, that it examined.

Here ya go, pulled out of one of my longer posts on ‘race’.

Next we’ll get into the actual ‘races’ within humanity. While our race is really just “human”, you *can* break us more into subspecies. Similar to how all dogs are one species, or ‘race’, but are broken into the various breeds/subspecies. Likewise, humans can be broken into several breeds within our race, which are generally referred to as ‘races’. Scientifically, there’s not a full consensus on exactly which ones are/aren’t, but it’s usually 3-5 options. Negroid, Caucasoid, and Mongoloid are the main ones, then some will add a fourth, Australoid (ususally included in Negroid), and others occasionally use Esquimaux (Mongoloid), Capoid (Negroid), Polynesian/Pacific (Mongoloid), American Tribes (Mongoloid), and other even more minor ones.

Most of these classifications are based on skull shape, and other physical definitions, not really skin color. (There’s light-skinned Negroids, and dark-skinned Caucasoids. Mongoloids tend to be more middling-light, but some of them can get pretty dark.) But, there’s a bunch of scientists nowadays that don’t even use these race classifications, and say there’s just no such thing as race. They like the term “ethnicity” better, and conveniently break it up into 5,000+ different groups, instead of three or four.

For most US government documents, the “race” column is completely arbitrary, confusing, and not well designed. Useless, really. I always check “other” and write-in “human”. There was actually potential legislation ten or twenty years back about amending the definition of Hispanic to include Portugal/Portuguese countries, but it failed. So that obviously tells you that “race” isn’t a set, defined characteristic at all.

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