Hello Bernard,
You write: "However, what I and scientists have been saying is that there are no BIOLOGICAL races, because that has a number of implications. Being inborn, immutable etc.
And:
"The reason "biological races" need to be fought agaist is that this concept leads to the idea that the group you are discriminating against is "subhuman" or "non-human" this is precisely what the Nazi theorists argued and why Jews were called "untermenschen".
This is the real nub of the matter. For some peculiar reason we see 'different' as somehow inferior (I speak generally).
During and from the media coverage of the Eichmann trial of 1961, I learned a lot about the rise and rule of Nazism and found it a chilling thought that had I been in Germany during that terrible period, I would have been a victim of the Nazis.
Yet despite this knowledge and the discrimination I have experienced most of my life, I have myself discriminated against others for one reason or another - including skin colour.
And I'm damned if I can understand why.
I think that scientists and their supporters on this subject (such as yourself) are right to push the truth that there are no biological races (given that it is so). But I fear that the majority of people are like me, in so far as I look at, say, a distinctly oriental person living in some remote part of China and then look at an Australian Aborigine whose tribe has had no contact with 'whites; I then turn to the anthropologist/geneticist and say: "They are biologically the same? You're kidding me, right?"
I think it's a case of what we see with the naked eye tells us something very different to what we see through a microscope.
Race (in the context of this thread) is a very, very real problem. And I have absolutely no idea how best to tackle it.
Regards,
Alex