GrumpyCatFace wrote:heydaralon wrote:
Ok another semantics question GCF: what do you consider a race, and what do you consider an ethnic group?
A race would be the nebulous idea of “white”, while an ethnic group would be people of Western European descent. You could probably narrow it down to regions, like Catalonian vs Frankish, etc.
Well, I'm not sold on the idea of an ethno state. That probably would have been a good discussion to have 300 years ago in America if we wanted to go that route and not take slaves etc. I think our best bet now is to just try to weather out the BLM riots and SJW nonsense the best we can despite my feelings on it. I work around black people and hispanics on a daily basis, and I get along with them, though I would not discuss politics lol. I do think this is an interesting thread though, regardless of my personal beliefs on the viability of an ethno state (I don't think it would work in America, and the costs would outweigh the benefits). I don't like this tear down everything mentality on the left, but we have gone quite awhile without another civil war, and I think splitting the country up that way would be throwing the baby out of with the bathwater. In the South blacks and whites have hated each other but managed to live side by side for generations without fullscale ethnic cleansing. This is no small feat, considering the kind of shit you see happening in third world countries like Iraq, Rwanda, Sudan, or India. That being said, I doubt the friction between different groups will ever go away.
But I'm not sure that I agree with you on race vs. ethnicity. Despite being the same species, I see strong physical differences between blacks and whites, asians and hispanics. I'm not going to open the can of worms on IQ or anything like that, because I don't know enough to make an argument one way or the other. But to me, saying that race doesn't exist is getting into an academic line of thinking that ignores the obvious. You are entitled to your own opinion of course, but it seems silly to ignore these obvious differences. I'm not talking about making value judgements on whether certain races are good or bad, I'm just saying that these physical differences are objective observable phenomena.
sorry for the long post dude. I just got to thinking about this.