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Your statement is complicated by the fact that "race" is not a scientific term, and is not actually a thing.

However, racism does exist, but it's a social construct premised on an imaginary distinction between humans based on the amount of melanin in their skin.



Race is absolutely a scientific term or else there would be no studies showing African Americans are at higher risk of heart disease and diabetes


Eastern and Central European Jews have higher risk for Tay-Sachs, but that doesn't make them a race. Also, it would be very strange if only African Americans would have higher risk of diabetes, but Canadians or British people of similar descent wouldn't.


That doesn't diminish the race part of "race/ethnicity"


Or so racists would have you believe. However, the fact that homo sapiens do not have phylogenetic subspecies renders your argument false.




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