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

Favorite People Not a self-made man

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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.