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Racialism is the pseudoscientific idea thathumanity can be easily divided into well-defined categories ("races") that are both broad (each category should include many humans, such as entire continents' populations) and clearly-defined (the categorization method should rarely misidentify someone's "race"). Racialism implies that these races are substantially different from each other and that these racial differences strongly determine the abilities and behavior of individuals and peoples. Essentially, racialism argues that human populations are substantially different from each other to a degree which necessitates biological classification below thespecies level. In short, racialism holds that biology neatly divides humans.

Very few racialists call themselves "racialist". Theirpreferred labels includescientific racism (pre—2000),race realism orracial realism (post—2000), andhuman biodiversity orHBD (post—2010).Racialism was first developed in the 1700s. It remained virtually unchallenged until the 1930s-1960s, whengenetics showed it to be erroneous. Simply put, modern racialism ispseudoscientificbullshit.

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