>>12776983your mistake is that you are misunderstanding what race means by conflating it with something else.
Genetic groups are real. Everyone is genetically distinct and we can say humans from a certain area are from that area simply looking at their dna. We can do this because for most of history humans were fairly isolated and did not intermix that frequently and so different groups of humans gained different genetic traits which alter them in various ways.
What i have just described is not race however. People will try to insist because what i just described is real, that race is also real, but race describes something entirely different.
There are vast quantities of genetic groups like the ones i described, and they have been collected into categories based not on their actual genetics, but on arbitrary characteristics based only on personal opinion. Due to this each racial category may contain people genetically similar to each other, but also people not very genetically similar to each other but who are in fact even more genetically similar to groups which are categorized as a different race.
Even worse, exactly which groups belong to which race does not stay static since there is nothing real to dictate this - and so over time groups drift from one race to another as people start considering things differently for various reasons.
people will find the idea of race appealing as a sort of cheat to make the complex genetic groupings easier to deal with. The problem arises however when people start treating these generalizations as reliable for decision making.
Thus race is fake in the way that all broad arbitrary categories are fake, it exists only within the mind, and while the utility of race might re-emerge if the concept of race were wiped from all memory, categories of who belongs to what race and how many races there even are would be different. There is nothing written in the genetics to instruct us on how to construct the categories of race.
