There's a difference between being a social construct and not existing. The people who reject “race” as an inherent physical trait don't usually argue that it doesn't exist, but that it is a social construct, essentially identical in nature to ethnicity, which is uncontroversially purely a social construct.
There's a difference between being a social construct and not existing. The people who reject “race” as an inherent physical trait don't usually argue that it doesn't exist, but that it is a social construct, essentially identical in nature to ethnicity, which is uncontroversially purely a social construct.