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* I fully support removing this. I can understand where whoever wrote this was coming from—they were that including the word race in the UCoC could be construed as support for [[:en:Scientific racism|race realism]]—but as written this is cludgy and just factually incorrect. As any first year anthropology student could tell you, race is a social construct, but it absolutely does not follow that it isn't a "meaningful distinction" between people. Social categories by definition lead to powerful, meaningful distinctions being made between people, and race is obviously no exception. This poor attempt at clarification adds nothing to the UCoC and, as the Whose Knowledge? group's letter explains much better than I could, it is much more likely that this statement will be taken as dismissing the experiences of people who have experienced racism or other forms of ethnic discrimination – because, intentional or not, that is what it says. [[User:Joe Roe|Joe Roe]] ([[User talk:Joe Roe|talk]]) 14:13, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
*:By the way, what’s a ‘meaningful distinction’ between people anyway? --[[Special:Contributions/2A02:8108:50BF:C694:F856:AAC0:D489:2DC2|2A02:8108:50BF:C694:F856:AAC0:D489:2DC2]] 13:39, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
:::A few years ago, I was working on the ground floor of an office block in London. One of my colleagues from (I think) the Hong Kong office visited our office and telephoned me, inviting me to join him for a discussion. He told me "I am the Chinese guy who is half-way down the [open-plan] office". Obviously, the word "Chinese" was meaningful in this context, otherwise he would not have used it.
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