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		Gothmog69 on Feb 13, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why young parents should focus on building trust w... No it's not. That's a woke lie. Race is definitely a biological concept. Sickle cell anemia for instance is heavily racially based.

redcobra762 on Feb 13, 2025 [–]

Which race? Black people? Nope, Indian and Arabian people get it too.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4822363/

The "asleep" lie is that "black" means anything genetically. Every trait you want to attribute to "black people" is also found in people who wouldn't qualify as "black" culturally.

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