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This is a masterclass in scientific illiteracy. It confuses genetic similarity with genetic clustering for social categories.
The 99.5% figure is correct, but the conclusion is nonsense. That 0.5% difference is mostly within populations, not between them. The genetic variation within any so-called race is far greater than the average difference between races.
The chimp comparison is a cheap trick. The 0.5% human difference is spread across billions of base pairs. The chimp difference is a different 1.2% that includes genes for brain size, skeletal structure, and much more. Comparing them is like saying the difference between a car and a motorcycle is small because they both have wheels and an engine.
Geneticists themselves reject this argument. The American Society of Human Genetics states that race is a social construct, not a biological one. You're citing a meme that misunderstands basic population genetics to push a racist ideology that the actual science refutes.