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 Biological pseudoscience at one time provided the legitimation weapon for racism. 

When people refer to "race science" this is what they typically are referring to. Phrenology and blood quantum tests etc. That's widely chucked at this point, and biologists understand that while genetic populations exist to be used to gauge stuff like risk factors for health conditions perhaps, our racial categories are b.s. Humans are predominantly genetically alike across the globe.

Where racial essentialism has obtained its new sought legitimation mechanism is in the field of sociology. At some point over the last 33 years or so sociology jumped off into woke deep end, tracking patterns along populations and then pairing that data with social radicalized populations and then drawing generalized conclusions about "what _______ people in said group are like."

Because it's not biology in the evolutionary nature the legitimation weapon can shield itself by selectively (and inconsistently) alleging to be defining "culture" instead of race. 

But obviously it still draws cultural lines around those outdated racial categories that are a holdover from archaic race science that were used to structurally subjugate people to underclass statuses (like chattel slavery). This caused a new sort of race science which reifies pseudoscientific racial ideas while pretending to be a field that shines a light on the "truth" of culture.

I don't know if you know this or not, but populist hard rightoids love this tiny shell game since they can assert to be defending their culture instead of an idea of racial purity. Richard Spencer does this b.s. But so does the more mainstream nativist kinds of people such as Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen.

There are some vile lil right-wingers who are clambering for biological race science to return but I feel that they will be marginal on the right for a long while. The misguided woke essentialists of liberal 2.0 academia's sociology and humanities fields already have gift wrapped the right the intellectual kit it needs to rationalize the abuse of otherized populations.


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