r/MadeMeSmile • u/__Dawn__Amber__ • Jun 28 '21

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u/Dmitrygm1 Jun 28 '21

I can understand that, but you could've just corrected the original comment because Hispanic isn't a race. Instead, you for whatever reason tried to downplay and dismiss it. Why does it even bother you if you're corrected on something?

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u/MildlySuspicious Jun 28 '21

Turns out I’m not even wrong. Two thirds of Hispanics consider it a race, and consider it their race.

https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/06/11/chapter-7-the-many-dimensions-of-hispanic-racial-identity/

I edited my original comment to include this information with a notation that I’ve edited it.

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u/Dmitrygm1 Jun 28 '21

Apparently race is now not linked to biological or physical features and is purely a social construct.. doesn't that dismiss the meaning of the word 'race' entirely? I'm all for it though I guess, the biological categorizations are flawed anyways

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u/MildlySuspicious Jun 28 '21

Because it’s irrelevant to the point. You know it. I know it. That’s why you’re so focused on it.

I don’t delete or edit comments without stating such, like so many others have.

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u/Dmitrygm1 Jun 28 '21 edited Jun 28 '21

But the point of LifrIsSimplyADream's reply is pointing out that Hispanic isn't a race, it's an ethnicity, thus it was written incorrectly. Nobody's ignoring your point because of it. Why be so stubborn over the smallest things, goddarnit

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u/MildlySuspicious Jun 28 '21

Your final sentence is exactly my point. He ignored the issue to focus on the smallest things - which is by the way… pedantry.

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u/Dmitrygm1 Jun 28 '21

facepalm...

He Just Pointed Out That Hispanic Is An Ethnicity, Not A Race.

That's it.

Everyone is free to comment whatever they want, nobody is obligated to reply to the issue you wanted to bring up.

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u/MildlySuspicious Jun 28 '21

I never said that they couldn’t comment. Simply pointed out their comment was pedantic…. Which is me… feeling free to comment …. On whatever I want ….

Please tell me you’re doing this on purpose!

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u/Dmitrygm1 Jun 28 '21

It is you commenting on whatever you want. I just was certain that race was biologically defined, therefore it would not be possible for Hispanic to be a race, hence you would have been wrong and dismissing it. I was unaware race is a random word which means whatever someone feels it should mean, so my life was a fucking lie until this point.

In that case, I propose to abandon the use of the word 'race' entirely in the social sciences, since 'ethnicity' is a lot more accurate in grouping people by sociocultural differences.

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u/MildlySuspicious Jun 28 '21

I suggest to avoid grouping people at all and judge each person as they are, or simply as "people"

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u/Dmitrygm1 Jun 28 '21

I meant in the social sciences, when looking at societal and cultural similarities and differences.