PHI 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heteronormativity, Racialism
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They are biologically different things who are different in nature independently of what we think. There are actual races in nature, just like there are species. The difference between i. e. black people and white people is a real difference that exists in nature. Constructivism: racial categories exist but they are not in nature. They are created by our cultural practices. For this view to be true, there must be some coherent way of sorting people into races. All our talk about race is an error. There is no coherent way of sorting people into races. Racist: racialists who think the real difference between races is morally relevant. A difference between people is morally relevant if it gives us a reason to treat the two people differently. Extrinsic racism: we ought to treat different races differently because having a certain race is correlated with having a certain moral failing. (empirical claim)