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The idea of race is not based on science but on culture. Ideas like "mixed race" are based on the erroneous belief that the human population is made up of genetically distinct groupings. A century ago people believed that the Welsh and English were separate races. Hitler's antisemitism relied on the pseudoscience that classed Jews as belonging to a separate race. Wouldn't we make more progress if we acknowledged there are no distinct "races" of humans?

Robert Liberty

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