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> Sure, the edges are fuzzy

Handwave of the century



It's much easier to offer up a flippant rhetorical parry than to actually make an argument. Cognitive dissonance and all that.

Here's a question: How is it that we're able to measure the degree to which various racial minorities are underrepresented in congress, in colleges, in industry and in Emmy Award nominations? How is it that we're able to measure racial disparities in income, in COVID exposure, in medical outcomes and in every other conceivable context, if race is such a tricky concept to nail down?




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