re: "Race is a social construct"

This is me responding to you about why I replied to a response made by you to a reply from me

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Wrong again

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In 1970, in the most recent assignment, the U.S. Census Bureau designated Asian Indians as White.

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1970 huh? How about 2018?

US Census: Race

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Asian – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Obviously the factors that contribute to one's phenotype relate to common environmental and geographic characteristics so that categories aren't worthless but they are still a constructed categories.

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Isn't this literally true of everything that mankind observes, studies and classifies?

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So I am 1/4 slave blood.

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Eh...

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Redbone

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Okay. That checks out.

Whiteness is a social construct only until it's time to attack whites as a group. Then it suddenly becomes a real thing. Funny how that works.

No, Denisovan ancestry has only been found in a few select modern peoples. Aussie aboriginees are one such group. The aboriginees have lived isolated on that continent for about 50,000 years.

East Asians share Neanderthal ancestry with Europeans, suggesting the interbreeding happened before Asians and Europeans split from one another about 40,000 years ago. This fits in with all the physical evidence, as the first anatomically modern humans appear in the fossil record of Europe about 40,000 years ago (c14 dating). Prior to that time Europe was populated by Neanderthals. It has been suggested that the reason we aren't more than a few percent Neanderthal is because most of the crosses didn't result in fertile offspring. One of the geneticists on the team suggested that only the female offspring were fertile.

Denisovans are "cousins" to Neanderthals, but still distinct enough for DNA testing to distinguish. They split from Neanderthals in the distant past and moved East into Siberia and Asia. However it is my understanding that Denisovans did not contribute to East Asians, but only to a few select groups like Abos and Melanisians.

I suspect we will find out that the Hobbit species contributed to some SE Asians. And the full story on Africa hasn't been told either. There is quite a lot of diversity there (the San people for instance look Asian, but are one of the oldest groups in Africa).

Oh, and David Reich at Harvard is one of the main researchers on ancient DNA (he has done a ton of work tracing the genetic history of Europe). He said recently that his findings have made him rethink race (he believes it is real). A pretty astounding statement from a leftist Harvard professor.