Race

I had a conversation with a friend today. Wow, I know. It covered many topics including my dislike of the word race, as applied to different groups of humans. I dislike it because it implies that different races exist. As far as I am concerned there is only one race - the human race. I think the word race makes it easier for all the bigoted, narrow minded arseholes in this world to justify their behaviour and opinions, even if only to themselves. Add power crazy arses to that. I am not saying that I don't think notable differences exist between groups of humans but they are differences within the human race. Differences of skin colour, culture, language, religion, any other defining factor you can think of are not an excuse, reason or justification for the horrendous treatment of any member of the human race.

So there.