Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong
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The problem is that when asked to justify that statement 'Race is a cultural convention' anthropologists in interpret it in the way you describe in your second paragraph, but they than proceed to use it in arguments as if it means 'None of the phenotypic variations (except possibly skin color) associated with any racial schema are physically real; they are hallucinations or figments'.
That's extremely strange and surprising, if true. Can you provide an example of this?