Racial categories are reactionary
One of the most banal and vulgar ways to think about humanity is to classify by 'race'
Leonard, Ralph
http://unherd.com/2020/08/why-racial-categories-are-reactionary/
Date Written: 2020-08-14
Publisher: Unherd
Year Published: 2020
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX24216
Racial thinking, no matter how 'progressively' arrived at, can only be reactionary. It is irrational, anti-scientific and anti-humanist. It is a fetter on the social development of human beings and their flourishing. Racialism and racism are twin brothers. Solidifying racial categories in mainstream discourse is a grave mistake. Real progress should mean challenging racial thinking at its root and ultimately transcending it.
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