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> There are different ethnicities of "white people" who can be told apart by looking. So "he can tell by looking" does not mean that he is applying a racial standard.

damn, you are really catching the straws here to defend a racist

It's obvious he meant brown people or anyone that isn't white/european looking.

There is no genetically pure or distinct native British phenotye to set apart other europeans.

Europeans have been mixing themselves for centuries, he obviously knew what he was talking about (non-whites)





I refer you back to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45386018. What you say is "obvious" is your completely unsubstantiated perception.

> There is no genetically pure or distinct native British phenotye to set apart other europeans.

Nevertheless, such ancestry can be reliably determined by genetic testing, and Europeans do recognize it by sight. https://blog.23andme.com/articles/23andme-adds-more-detail-f....




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