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Why do Academics in the liberal arts deny race as only a social construct while Scientists don't?

Is it because academics in the liberal arts are just adhereing to their multicultural agenda without any solid evidence, while scientists know there's biological proof of our differences?

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1. You made a contradiction in your question.
2. I could've sworn I gave your ignorant behind a scientific answer that counters your beliefs and proves you wrong with FACTS. Would you like me to copy and paste?
3. Racial classificaiton is a social construct. For it not to be it must be a biological taxonomy (science) LOL you failed. Find a science study stating racial classification is a biological taxonomy... I' m waiting and do not come up with that Craniofacial Anthropometry (Caucasoid, Negroidd, Capoid, Mongoloid & Australoid) because it is not a biological taxonomy either unless you can show otherwise. By the way I am not academic in liberal arts..... EDIT Your only showing your stupidity here, show me the facts that racial classificaiton is a biological taxonomy you seem confident so source it then. Google at least, something show me this biological proof of racial classificaiton. I know it is you who I have owned severall times on this subject and you change your username create a new account or block me. You then start the same failed argument with nothing to back it up with. Let me school you. Yes there is biological differences in humans BUT racial classificaiton does not define them rather losely groups them into major groups on the basis of facial feature, skin tone and hair texture differences. There is more to human variation than that and racial classificaiton fails to explain anything but the difference of physical traits then generalizing them into big groups. Nothing scientific about that unless when was the last time you needed a scientist to tell you who is black, white etc LOL asshole.
4. First of all, Your sentence structure is atrocious! Secondly, Race may be biologically determined but assigning superiority based solely on the tint of skin has nothing to do with liberal arts. It's called racism.
5. Even scientists will tell you that there's considerably more genetic variation WITHIN groups than between groups as a whole. Moreover, what biological differences exist are not sufficient to claim that, for example, one group is inferior or superior to another. A propensity to certain types of diseases, for example, within a group is irrelevant to intelligence issues and the ability to achieve. It's an accident of genetic history. Every group, no matter where it spent the years since we all came out of Africa developing, has developed certain genetic features by virtue of spontaneous mutations and so forth, subsequently passed on within the group, but again, that doesn't mean that being black, white, or Asian says something graven in stone about your potential for success. That's what people mean when they say that race is a social construct. And by the way, I'm an academic in the liberal arts who has no "multicultural agenda" and who is no fan at all of political correctness.