I could pretend to be stupid in order to please you...but I won't.
It could reasonably be argued that there's no such thing as "race", but that wouldn't make everyone African. There's no sensible reason to make that claim. I certainly didn't make it. African ancestry, yes, a long time ago, but that doesn't make everyone African today any more than everyone is homo erectus today. Ancestry is the past, not the present.
Tell me what you mean by "race" (since it has no real meaning, different people assign different meanings to it) and why you think "British" is a race. For bonus points, try providing any reason why you think so.
But neither of those were made up to serve the purpose of pretending that irrational prejudices aren't irrational prejudices.
Classifications have a variety of purposes. Classifications that have any beneficial purposes must be based on real and relevant criteria and treated as relevant only to the extent that they actually are relevant. If you think that constructing a "race" (as opposed to a nationality) and calling it "the British" is beneficial, feel free to explain why.
Taking a classification created for political reasons by the Roman empire and pretending despite all evidence to the contrary that it's a biological classification is silly. Applying it to a different area to that which the Roman empire applied it to is a slight decoration of foolishness to add to the silliness.
I didn't say that all classifications are silly. You just made that up as a strawman for you to defeat and pretend it was me.
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It's hardly compelling is it... "Oh yeah, someone at a hospital told me all about those nasty EDL harming thousands"
(Pretty sure those are the lyrics). (Ish.) Nelly innit.
