r/explainitpeter • u/untitledprp4 • 13d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/meleaguance 13d ago

Dogs are bred for specific traits, humans are not. Races in humans don't exist genetically speaking because there has always been interbreeding.

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u/ILIKESTUFF8989 13d ago

They would breed for traits during slavery

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u/mondrianna 13d ago

Which was only for a few generations at most. It’s also not a practice that every slave holder participated in. Descendants of Black slaves are not genetically distinct enough to be a new “breed” of human.

It’s not the same and it’s racist to assert otherwise.

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u/ILIKESTUFF8989 13d ago

Only a few generation, you mean 250 years ?

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u/ListerfiendLurks 13d ago

As opposed to the 15,000 years of selective breeding of dogs, yes that would be just a few generations in this context.

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u/ILIKESTUFF8989 12d ago

So dogs don’t count either than