Because race is a subdivision of a species when referring to humans, because humans like using unique terms for ourselves to differentiate between other animals. It is factually incorrect to say “human race” and seems to be an attempt to manipulate the language to manipulate people’s minds into believing the gaslighting that we are all the same and uniform profit units, like some corporate fever dream where all humans consume the same corporate slop uniformly across the globe.
Are you a human with unique cultures and identity or are you a unit that produces predictable profit like a slave that is simply defined as human in the HR records?
If you are the human race, why does corporate HR and corporate politics obsess about “diversity” and whether you check the ideal box to keep the “diversity” high so that there is no unifying identity to organize around to resist the abuses of the upper class?
You seem to be viewing this through a modern lens, and treating this like it's "new" terminology being used to gaslight people.
Some would say that the modern definition of "race" is what's not real, what is socially constructed. And that the "human race" is the only one with clear ties to biology.
"Human race" has never had anything to do with "racial identity" or "identity politics" or anything related to any of that. It has always just meant "human species" since the 1500s.
Why is it not? We've referred to the whole species as the "human race" for eons
Because race is a subdivision of a species when referring to humans, because humans like using unique terms for ourselves to differentiate between other animals. It is factually incorrect to say “human race” and seems to be an attempt to manipulate the language to manipulate people’s minds into believing the gaslighting that we are all the same and uniform profit units, like some corporate fever dream where all humans consume the same corporate slop uniformly across the globe.
Are you a human with unique cultures and identity or are you a unit that produces predictable profit like a slave that is simply defined as human in the HR records?
If you are the human race, why does corporate HR and corporate politics obsess about “diversity” and whether you check the ideal box to keep the “diversity” high so that there is no unifying identity to organize around to resist the abuses of the upper class?
You seem to be viewing this through a modern lens, and treating this like it's "new" terminology being used to gaslight people.
Some would say that the modern definition of "race" is what's not real, what is socially constructed. And that the "human race" is the only one with clear ties to biology.
"Human race" has never had anything to do with "racial identity" or "identity politics" or anything related to any of that. It has always just meant "human species" since the 1500s.
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it's from the opening line of "Industrial Society and its Future"
https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/ethics/Unabomber.pdf
That would be a rather curious source to adopt a phrase from, being Mr US MK-Ultra bomber guinea pig himself, who targeted technology and academia.
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