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CMV: The slogan "There is only one race. the Human Race." is dumb and does not solve any racial/ethnic issue.

I am a casual ethnographer and one of the least racist people you will ever meet and I heavily disagree with that slogan. Firstly, it uses the ambiguity of the word race to mean multiple things but that is not the core of my argument and I am not here to argue semantics.

The problem with the phrase "There is only one race. the Human Race." is that it is a tautology that completely ignores the complexities of race relations. It is a one-size-fits-all tactic that tries to obscure all of the physical, cultural, religious, linguistic, and political differences between groups of human beings in order to enforce a type of colorblindness. The issue is that human beings are not blind to the differences between them and trying to go with the tactic only makes egalitarians look foolish. Sure, it is true that all human beings are genetically 99% identical, but most human conflict isn't over genetics.

Differences between groups of people should be acknowledged and respected, not ignored. Really, proponents of that phrase are kind of sad. They believe that the only way two people can get along is if they both believe they are carbon copies of each other. If you disagree, imagine if somebody said "There is only one breed. The dog breed. They all bleed red." (All mammals bleed red but I digress). This same person insisted that a Great Dane and a Chihuahua were the exact same on the inside both behaviorally and physically and that those two breeds should only be referred to as dogs or Canis Lupis Familiaris. It is true that a Great Dane and a Chihuahua are both the same species and can make fertile children with each other, but come on it is obvious they aren't the exact same thing.
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>It is a one-size-fits-all tactic that tries to obscure all of the physical, cultural, religious, linguistic, and political differences between groups of human beings in order to enforce a type of colorblindness. The issue is that human beings are not blind to the differences between them and trying to go with the tactic only makes egalitarians look foolish. Sure, it is true that all human beings are genetically 99% identical, but most human conflict isn't over genetics. 

I would argue it's exactly the opposite. 

It seems to me that you recognize that the difference between people is their culture, religion, language etc. And it's extra confusing to me that you would think race or skin color is a good divider for groups of human being. Wouldn't you say a black Christian in America would have more in common with a white Christian in America than a black Muslim in Turkey? If you agree to that, then how is skin color a good divider between groups of people in any meaningful way?

It's enforcing blindness to skin color, sure. But rather than asking people to be blind to difference you mentioned, *it emphasize that those difference are the ones that matters*. Genetic differences, even though insignificant in any meaningful sense, is the basis for most racist arguments. It always comes down to it to justify how a race is inferior in some way. To argue that there is only one human race is to recognize that different races are not genetically different in any significant way. And at the same time, it's to recognize that the the things that leads to difference in people is culture and environment.