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Given that racists and slavers used the "natural physical strength" of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same "biological advantage" argument that now transphobes use against trans athletes to claim it was "unfair" for black to compete against whites to justify segregation.

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[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not the same thing though is it?

[-] Garbanzo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Not really.

Why are most Asians lactose intolerant? Why isn't their earwax the same as mine? Why are their teeth shaped differently? It's because they're bred different.

Acknowledging differences between various groups is not racist. Treating people differently based on the group they belong to is. Making assumptions about an individual based on the group you've assigned to them is.

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That’s a pretty big leap to go from “most Asians are lactose intolerant” to “they’re bred different”.

I get what you’re saying, and mostly agree. But “they’re bred different” implies some sort of sub-human deliberate motive beyond just a consequence of a population living in isolation for centuries.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Having different genetics is fundamentally different from being "bred" like cattle

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They evolved in different environments and over time overcame different things maybe? Like how white people absorb vitamin D like sponges because they get eight minutes of sun a year.

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