The problems with "race"

[strredwolf]

I have a problem with "race." Just the word, in the context of differentiating two groups of people. Nothing else.

What's wrong with it? Think about it: The white race. The black race. The asian race. The Arian race. Geeze, folks. We're all HUMAN, homo sapien. The only difference is that only a slight part of our genetic makeup is coded differently. It's like skins in Winamp or Quake. The base don't change, the operational code doesn't change, and yet folks want to make them different species.

We are not different species. Get that through your thick heads. We are very technically the same species, and any court would throw you out laughing.

I like three words better.
Breed for technical comparisons, Class for nontechnical comparisions. And for comparing WolfSkunks and Drygers, species.

Now can we all get folks using some non-offensive terminology that's actually accurate? Just a little? I may be a bit politically correct, but "race" just doesn't cut it for Canmephians.

Comments

[xilimyth.livejournal.com]

Well... had I known a direct translation of the d20 core rules would've incited that response...

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's just something which irked me when I was working on the WolfSkunk docs *before* comming to KeenSpace. Still does.