<i>&quot;Hmm so if race is a social construct then racism doesn&#x27;t truly exist so there should be no outcry about it?&quot;</i><p>If race is a social construct then <i>the thing that racism is itself based on</i> doesn&#x27;t objectively exist. That doesn&#x27;t stop racism existing - people are quite capable of having false beliefs. The problem with this particular false belief (as opposed to, say, the false but harmless belief that the earth is flat) is that racism causes suffering for the people it is directed at.<p><i>&quot;And if it isn&#x27;t a social construct but a biological one then racism is justified.&quot;</i><p>That doesn&#x27;t follow. If human racial distinctions were biologically &quot;real&quot; then that still wouldn&#x27;t justify racism.