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No it doesn't apply. Society by and large accepts the concept of gender and rejects the concept of transracialism. You have to give a reason why we should even apply this logic to race in the first place.
Entire swathes of the world reject the argument as it pertains to sex/gender so I wouldn't get too hung up on what 'society' 'accepts' or not
 

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Either the argument is logical or not and it's the same argument; there's no supplementary 'reason'
False. It's not enough just to apply logic to empirical facts. You have to also give a reason for us to believe that it is appropriate to apply this logic to this specific set of empirical facts. So for example, the logic of the natural sciences doesn't always apply to the social sciences. Does that mean we should reject the social sciences? Or does it simply mean that the character of the facts that social sciences study does not warrant the application of natural scientific arguments?
 

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False. It's not enough just to apply logic to empirical facts. You have to also give a reason for us to believe that it is appropriate to apply this logic to this specific set of empirical facts. So for example, the logic of the natural sciences doesn't always apply to the social sciences. Does that mean we should reject the social sciences? Or does it simply mean that the character of the facts that social sciences study does not warrant the application of natural scientific arguments?
There's no preliminary reason given in the two-step argument you gave earlier
 

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By Butler's logic, they should do
False, again. There is no reason to apply Butler's logic to race. One thing I'll tell you is this: there is certainly a difference between racial identity and racial culture. Being born black doesn't mean you automatically contribute to black culture. Just like being born female doesn't mean you automatically act like a woman.
 

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False, again. There is no reason to apply Butler's logic to race. One thing I'll tell you is this: there is certainly a difference between racial identity and racial culture. Being born black doesn't mean you automatically contribute to black culture. Just like being born female doesn't mean you automatically act like a woman.
Yes, you're saying they're equivalent there
 

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There's no preliminary reason given in the two-step argument you gave earlier
The preliminary reason is that we want to define gender and there's no anti-essentialist alternative to viewing gender as a social construct. But there is clearly an alternative to understanding race as a social construct. That being said, I do believe that race involves both biological and socially constructed elements. But that belief doesn't entail transracialism.
 

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But they could legitimately be said to, to the same extent as actions might define 'gender'
No they can't. No one ever said that actions define race and you certainly never justified that definition of race. Acting black doesn't make you black. But acting like a woman makes you a woman. It's not hard to figure out.
 

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No they can't. No one ever said that actions define race and you certainly never justified that definition of race. Acting black doesn't make you black. But acting like a woman makes you a woman. It's not hard to figure out.
People have said that and your only recourse is to convention - not a philosophical argument!
 

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People have said that and your only recourse is to convention - not a philosophical argument!
False. First, why should we accept that actions define race? There's no reason. Second, what we are studying here is literally social conventions, so I'm not appealing to convention in lieu of an argument, I'm explaining the conventions that tell us how to define race.
 

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In this definition, it's a facet of sex, sex expression but it can't be unlinked. That doesn't mean it's necessarily eliminated
But if it's a facet of sex, how do we differentiate it from sex? I never denied that there are connections between sex and gender, I said that sex doesn't determine gender. And if you claim sex determines gender, then you are again reducing gender to sex.
 
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