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The myth of the majority minority America

7 pointsby Flatcirclealmost 4 years ago

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ttfkamalmost 4 years ago
Argument from ambiguity.<p>It claims that majority-minority uses the same line of racial categorical thinking as one-drop anti miscegenation laws from (not too) long ago but applies it to cultural thinking that gave rise to the one-drop rule in the first place.<p>Skips a step in the logical process though.<p>Yes, it is true that the white race does not exist. There can be more genetic variation within a racial group than between two individuals of different racial groups. The differences in eye shape and skin color account for very little of our overall genetic makeup.<p>But US laws and customs were largely built based upon those few outwardly visible differences.<p>Whiteness exists because we made it exist. Segregation doesn&#x27;t cease to exist because biology determined that there were no &quot;races.&quot; And whiteness (as distinct from individual white people, please don&#x27;t start with the whole &quot;not all white people&quot; stuff) is still very much prevalent here.<p>So yeah, white folks as defined by the one-drop rule are dropping to less than 50% of the population very soon. Yes, it is completely justified to say that someone who is biracial white and non-white is not considered white in this country due to its history. It&#x27;s contrary to any scientifically accurate assessment of the people who live in the US, but it is 100% accurate with regard to the very real cultural, legislative, and judicial history of the US.<p>The sooner it is an old myth in folks&#x27; day to day life the better, but today is not that day.