In a message dated 00-04-09 12:38:32 EDT, you write:
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sentence that includes the categories "Black people" and "whites"
uncritically assumes that these term themselves are unproblematic with
regard to the very issues the sentence is discussing. which individuals end
up in the "Black" ca
part of what has made "race" -- and "gender" for that matter -- so confused,
etc. is that it regards the *social* assignment of meaning to traits that
are biologically inherited-- so people say "what are talking about, of
course gender is biological" because we see anatomical differences, but the
