Race is an emic, not etic concept. In other words, it is in the minds of the beholders, nor an objective fact.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic
In anthropology, folkloristics, and the social and behavioral sciences, emic and etic refer to two kinds of field research done and viewpoints obtained:[1] emic, from within the social group from the perspective of the subject) and etic, from outside (from the perspective of the observer.
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„Die einzige Art und Weise den rassistischen Fimmel anzugreifen, der die Welt heutzutage mitreisst, ist seine angeblich wissenschaftliche Basis zu untergraben“.[105]
Boas, qtd in Friedrich Pöhl, Oswald Spenglers Rassebegriff im Kontext seiner Zeit: Boas, Chamberlain, Lenz, Rosenberg, Sombart
The false piety of white #liberals who claim that they are not #racists — or, indeed, who mea culpa that they ARE racists — is matched by the epistemological arrogance of the #CRT #Woke, who insist that everyone else is. And that they are not.
— George Lang (@geogeoplots) April 14, 2021