Nice pivot. Keep your head deep in the sand.Arising_uk wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:49 pmDoes that mean that the people who killed a half a million odd kids in the ME are also going to be held responsible too?Seleucus wrote:At some point the people who are supporting mass (im)migration are going to need to be held morally and at some level even legally responsible when concerts of little girls are blown to shreds and whole festivals of children are run down by trucks.
Race versus culture
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Re: Race versus culture
Do you know what a haplogroup is? It is a single neuceotide mutation on one chromosome. It will not cause the possessor to speak a particular language.
It is as daft as suggesting that because car number plates in Botswana begin with the letter B this must somehow be 'linked' the the fact that Botswanans are Christians.
You do not even have a correlation. First, O2 haploids are traced by a mutation of the Y chromosome, so you need to explain why females in this region also speak that language. Nor is your basic claim true; some of this group are Japanese, some are Indians, as are about half of Chinese males. They do not speak the same language or have the same religion.
The connection you are trying to make is absurd in principle, and the facts you quote are wrong. I am getting bored with this.
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They are and so far have all failed, why would that be?Seleucus wrote:Offensive
The position that race doesn't exist or doesn't matter is a highly offensive and insulting thing to say. Race isn't only important to the White supremacist boogeyman. Black student associations, Pan Slavism, and the Pan Arab movement are all essentially racial movements. ...
What do you mean by a 'racial identity', that peoples skin colour differ? You appear to ignore that if it is about skin-colour then the brown race should be ruling the world.Denying people their racial identity is tantamount to intellectual genocide.
When did they do this?What it means to be Chinese was a central question throughout Chinese history and drawing on racial Chineseness gave the people the purpose and strength to evict the Mongols ...
Not exactly hard.and also the Portuguese from Taiwan. ...
What is it you are proud about?There is absolutely no shame in having a sense of racial identity and pride, on the contrary. ...
What ancient mysteries?Grey
A world without race would be a very monotonous and meaningless place. Race is a deep part of who all of us is. The Javanese have occupied their island for almost six-thousand years, some anthropologist are reasonably beginning to believe the Aborigines have dwelt in Australia for towards one hundred millennia, and we know that the fair hair of Europeans is at least partly genetically attributable to the Neanderthals. Race is something we can all look at with curiosity and amazement, it contains links to the most ancient mysteries of the origins of our societies and ourselves.
Since when have Jap or Nordics or Mediterraneans been races? What do you mean by race?Leveled
Everyone in the world has a basic idea of race. Even a child understands the basic premise. We easily speak of White and Black and Oriental and Nordic and Mediterranean and Japanese and so on. ...
But not in the sense of being a united idea?These races are entities that have stood for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years. ...
What are these traits that apply to races then?Meanwhile, there is also a critique of essentialism. ...
Who never enters puberty? We could not easily say this as there are clear changes associated with puberty in males and females and they all occur at roughly the same time.The same post-modern critique can be leveled against any of a number or categorizations. We could say that adult and child are fictions and that puberty is a mult-stage proces, it begins at a different age for everyone, in fact human development is a life long process of change, and moreover some people never even enter puberty at all. ...
No we couldn'tWe could say there is no such thing as man or woman or sex ...
Well there's an argument that 'gender' is a socially defined set of categories and since those categories have changed over time and cultures it seems a fair point.nor gender and cite people like Judy Buttler and Gail Rubin and Guy Hocquenghem. ...
So which points of the post-modern critique do you agree with and which bits of essentialiosm do you agree with with respect to race and gender?We could probably attack the idea of salads, a construct of chavanistic chefs who cannot think outside Escoffier and then we would rebut by discussing the etymology of salads and the most ancient salt mines in Illyria and discuss cooked salads and so on. Simply both the essentialists and the post-modern critique are true at their level. ...
It is, the concept should be integrated into the politics of identity but not taken as the be all and end all of what having an identity means.Dangerous
Taking the view that race doesn't exist or doesn't matter is a misguided and risky thing to do. ...
Since when were the Greeks a race, you mean they still spoke Greek?The Greek merchants who settled in Egypt thousands of years ago were still Greek when Alexander's armies arrived. ...
Why would you think a thousand years would be long enough to change evolutionary morphology? Were they still the same cultural Chinese as those still at home?The Chinese in South-East Asia are still Chinese thousands of years after the imperial dynasty refused to allow them to return home. ...
Since when are the Turks a race?The Blacks in America are still Black after centuries, and the newly arriving Turks in Europe will still be Turks in a thousand years. ...
The Blacks in America seem very different form their counterparts in Africa? But see above for why you think a few hundred years would change things.
Then why do they keep killing and imprisoning each other?People love their races. ...
What do you mean by " cybernetic ecosystems"? All you seem to be pointing out is that culture and custom are fairly stable units.And while it is possible that non-Whorfian shifts can happen and race, language, culture and religion can move independently of one another, what actually is happening is the Egyptians still resemble their forebearers in the Fayum mummy portarits, the Yazidi still practice Zoroastrianism, the Jews are still Jewish, and the Dravidians still refuse to speak Hindi and use Tamil. These characteristics developed in symbiotic and cybernetic ecosystems over thousands of years. ...
Then they'll fit very well with you far-right whingers then.Western people play sports, value religious freedom, women's rights, democratic government and environmentalism. In a thousand years from now, Chinese immigrants to North America and Middle-Eastern migrants into Europe are going to have the same authoritarian political views, ...
What do you mean 'our' civilization, as what you describe is the Liberal view of things and it is you and yours who wish to destroy such things.disrespect for women and disinterest in mountain biking they do now; if too many come into our homelands, our civilization is eventually going to be taken over and destroyed.
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Nice avoidance, are you not going to take responsibility for the actions of your white race?Seleucus wrote: Nice pivot. Keep your head deep in the sand.
Given you say you are a Muslim convert I think my head way above the parapet compared to yours not least because I was challenging, in person, the fundamentalist Muslims way back in the 80's.
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Yeah I am. Guess what, White people confronted fascism and colonialism and male rape culture. Yeah, let's see those responsible for these Middle Eastern wars prosecuted. So now can you be so brave as to say that blowing up little girls and running over children isn't very cool?Arising_uk wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 3:26 pmNice avoidance, are you not going to take responsibility for the actions of your white race?Seleucus wrote: Nice pivot. Keep your head deep in the sand.
I converted since Islam prohibits apostasy and enforces miscegenation laws, so unless I wanted my wife to have to flee her county, or worse be kidnapped by her cousin and forced into marriage him, that was pretty much the only choice. The fact of having "Islam" on an ID document does not mean overmuch actually...Given you say you are a Muslim convert
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I have never met a Korean speaking, Orthodox Christian, Tex-Mex Samoan... have you? The fact is that for whatever reason, most Botswanan licensed vehicles don't go too far from Botswana. And in the rare cases when they do, they still blare Botswana music on the radio!Londoner wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 3:09 pmDo you know what a haplogroup is? It is a single neuceotide mutation on one chromosome. It will not cause the possessor to speak a particular language.
It is as daft as suggesting that because car number plates in Botswana begin with the letter B this must somehow be 'linked' the the fact that Botswanans are Christians.
You do not even have a correlation. First, O2 haploids are traced by a mutation of the Y chromosome, so you need to explain why females in this region also speak that language. Nor is your basic claim true; some of this group are Japanese, some are Indians, as are about half of Chinese males. They do not speak the same language or have the same religion.
The connection you are trying to make is absurd in principle, and the facts you quote are wrong. I am getting bored with this.
https://youtu.be/79N0vO5lg7I
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By in large they succeeded which is why we have so many ethno-linguistic nation states.Arising_uk wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 3:22 pmThey are and so far have all failed, why would that be?Seleucus wrote:Offensive
The position that race doesn't exist or doesn't matter is a highly offensive and insulting thing to say. Race isn't only important to the White supremacist boogeyman. Black student associations, Pan Slavism, and the Pan Arab movement are all essentially racial movements. ...
White, Black, Eskimo, Asian, Korean...What do you mean by a 'racial identity'Denying people their racial identity is tantamount to intellectual genocide.
Why don't you start with the wiki page and go out from there,When did they do this?What it means to be Chinese was a central question throughout Chinese history and drawing on racial Chineseness gave the people the purpose and strength to evict the Mongols ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua%E2%80 ... istinction
How about were Egyptians Black? Were the Hyksos White? Who were the Tocharians? Who were the Huns? Did the Dorian invasion really happen?What ancient mysteries?
It can mean lots of things. I could call myself European, or White, or Greek, or Western, or Indo-European, or Caucasian, or a WASP, or English, or British, or a Celt, or Germanic, and on and on...Since when have Jap or Nordics or Mediterraneans been races? What do you mean by race?
People with Progeria Syndrome.Who never enters puberty?
And yet these philosophers/academics are saying exactly that: Judy Butler and Gail Rubin and Guy Hocquenghem.No we couldn'tWe could say there is no such thing as man or woman or sex ...
Both. Isn't that what I just wrote?So which points of the post-modern critique do you agree with and which bits of essentialiosm do you agree with with respect to race and gender?
They still spoke Greek, looked like Greeks and not Egyptians, followed Greek customs, and worshiped Greek gods.It is, the concept should be integrated into the politics of identity but not taken as the be all and end all of what having an identity means.
Since when were the Greeks a race, you mean they still spoke Greek?
Yep, still got slanty eyes and pale skin, still speaking Chinese languages, still eating Chinese food, and still worshiping at Mahayana Buddhist temples all over South-East Asia. Even after one-thousand years.Why would you think a thousand years would be long enough to change evolutionary morphology? Were they still the same cultural Chinese as those still at home?
I don't know? 44 million results on google for the expression though so I guess someone besides me has thought it.Since when are the Turks a race?The Blacks in America are still Black after centuries, and the newly arriving Turks in Europe will still be Turks in a thousand years. ...
But are they? And don't they very often desire to foster that link.The Blacks in America seem very different form their counterparts in Africa? But see above for why you think a few hundred years would change things.
That is exactly what I mean, "stable units", very well put.What do you mean by " cybernetic ecosystems"? All you seem to be pointing out is that culture and custom are fairly stable units.And while it is possible that non-Whorfian shifts can happen and race, language, culture and religion can move independently of one another, what actually is happening is the Egyptians still resemble their forebearers in the Fayum mummy portarits, the Yazidi still practice Zoroastrianism, the Jews are still Jewish, and the Dravidians still refuse to speak Hindi and use Tamil. These characteristics developed in symbiotic and cybernetic ecosystems over thousands of years. ...
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For everyone who's lost their faith in the foreign religion, Christianity, and yet does not find much meaning in atheism, here is a great vid on YouTube by anthropologist Tomas Roswell: a reading list on Indo-Euproean religion to help you get back in touch with the spiritual tradition that has evolved symbiotically with your race, language and culture. was able to find almost all these books online.
https://youtu.be/WHKb6W1lMBU
https://youtu.be/WHKb6W1lMBU
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I thought you said you were anti-Whorfian?Seleucus wrote:By in large they succeeded which is why we have so many ethno-linguistic nation states.
So race is colour but it's also not?White, Black, Eskimo, Asian, Korean...
What is the difference between an Asian and a Korean?
I did, so you think the Han are not the same race as the other orientals?Why don't you start with the wiki page and go out from there,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua%E2%80 ... istinction
Who cares?How about were Egyptians Black? Were the Hyksos White? Who were the Tocharians? Who were the Huns? Did the Dorian invasion really happen?
I told you, Greeks aren't white or at least not to the white supremacists they aren't. So 'race' is just whatever you happen to want it to be at the time then sometimes cultural sometime colour.It can mean lots of things. I could call myself European, or White, or Greek, or Western, or Indo-European, or Caucasian, or a WASP, or English, or British, or a Celt, or Germanic, and on and on...
David Gems, professor of biological sciences at the University of Missouri at ColumbiaPeople with Progeria Syndrome.
"Werner syndrome is the most common form of progeria. The first signs of this disorder appear only after puberty, with the full symptoms becoming manifest in individuals 20 to 30 years old. A much rarer progeria, Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, develops earlier: victims die, apparently of old age, typically at around age 12."
If they mean there is no such thing as two sexes they are wrong then. I they mean that there are also other combinations they well may be right but its rare.And yet these philosophers/academics are saying exactly that: Judy Butler and Gail Rubin and Guy Hocquenghem.
Which bits?Both. Isn't that what I just wrote?
All you are saying is that cultures are hardy.They still spoke Greek, looked like Greeks and not Egyptians, followed Greek customs, and worshiped Greek gods.
Do you think none of them took Egyptian wives or husbands over that time?
Except the other Chinese weren't doing this at home?Yep, still got slanty eyes and pale skin, still speaking Chinese languages, still eating Chinese food, and still worshiping at Mahayana Buddhist temples all over South-East Asia. Even after one-thousand years.
So you think Turks are Korean?I don't know? 44 million results on google for the expression though so I guess someone besides me has thought it.
Do they? no idea, all the one's I've met say they are American.But are they? And don't they very often desire to foster that link.
Of which 'race' appears to pay a fairly small part.That is exactly what I mean, "stable units", very well put.
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And guess what, they also were fascists and colonialists and raped and pillaged.Seleucus wrote:Yeah I am. Guess what, White people confronted fascism and colonialism and male rape culture. ...
We agree.Yeah, let's see those responsible for these Middle Eastern wars prosecuted. ...
I think it a crime that should be punished.So now can you be so brave as to say that blowing up little girls and running over children isn't very cool?
You'd have to be a Muslim first?I converted since Islam prohibits apostasy ...
Something I presume you and yours would support?and enforces miscegenation laws, ...
Except if you and yours get your way you won't be coming home.so unless I wanted my wife to have to flee her county, or worse be kidnapped by her cousin and forced into marriage him, that was pretty much the only choice. The fact of having "Islam" on an ID document does not mean overmuch actually...
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As ever, when caught peddling inaccuracies you evade. You start up another line, as divertingly absurd as possible, then go back to the old nonsense when you hope everyone has forgotten.Seleucus wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 3:34 pm I have never met a Korean speaking, Orthodox Christian, Tex-Mex Samoan... have you? The fact is that for whatever reason, most Botswanan licensed vehicles don't go too far from Botswana. And in the rare cases when they do, they still blare Botswana music on the radio!
You tried to be very careful with your example didn't you, but you still got it wrong! There are lots of Korean Christians, and some are Orthodox.
But never mind, let's pretend you are right. Is your point that there must be a particular mutation of one chromosome that dictates which denomination of Christian a Korean becomes? Or perhaps you think there is a link between having a epicanthic eye fold and their attitude towards the doctrine of original sin? Is it eating pickled vegetables that cause Koreans to pick a particular religion? Or is it their religion that makes them eat pickled vegetables?
And how come, since both North and South Koreans look similar and speak the same language, North Korea is so different from South Korea? Surely their 'race' should have determined that they would have identical cultures?
Do you know the phrase: 'When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging' ? I'm beginning to feel sorry for you.
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You are even thicker than I thought. There's no 'victimhood'. I couldn't care less what you morons 'think'. It actually works in my favour that you two idiots put me at polar opposite sides of the political spectrum. Poor dears think everyone comes in a neatly-labeled political box like yourselves.Seleucus wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:22 pmOh man, you're the victim of persecutors again! Why does this keep happening to you?vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:13 am This is hilarious. Couldn't be better. To seleufleces I'm a 'leftie PC do-gooder', and to davidm I'm a 'rabid racist right-wing nazi'. Doesn't that SAY something??? Could they both be as thick as each other??
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Er ... I never called veg a "rabid racist right-wing nazi" -- and look! She even put quote marks around that phrase, dishonestly implying I wrote something that I never wrote!vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 7:09 pmYou are even thicker than I thought. There's no 'victimhood'. I couldn't care less what you morons 'think'. It actually works in my favour that you two idiots put me at polar opposite sides of the political spectrum. Poor dears think everyone comes in a neatly-labeled political box like yourselves.Seleucus wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 2:22 pmOh man, you're the victim of persecutors again! Why does this keep happening to you?vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:13 am This is hilarious. Couldn't be better. To seleufleces I'm a 'leftie PC do-gooder', and to davidm I'm a 'rabid racist right-wing nazi'. Doesn't that SAY something??? Could they both be as thick as each other??
I do believe I said you were a bigot, which you give good grounds to believe of you.
But the fact that you would falsely attribute a quote to me says a lot. Keep digging your hole!
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Yes. You predictably trotted out the 'r' word, and racists are rabid right-wingers. It's not my fault 'Progressive' morons don't know what it means. Funny though. A large percentage of immigrants here are white South Africans who hate the fact that they no longer have control over there and yearn for a return to apartheid. They bring their rabid racist fascist politics with them, but according to you this only enriches the glorious cultural melting pot, while I say they should fuck off back to where they came from and suck it up. They aren't refugees in imminent danger. But of course you would call me the racist who should be welcoming them with open arms.davidm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 7:15 pmEr ... I never called veg a "rabid racist right-wing nazi" -- and look! She even put quote marks around that phrase, dishonestly implying I wrote something that I never wrote!vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2017 7:09 pmYou are even thicker than I thought. There's no 'victimhood'. I couldn't care less what you morons 'think'. It actually works in my favour that you two idiots put me at polar opposite sides of the political spectrum. Poor dears think everyone comes in a neatly-labeled political box like yourselves.
I do believe I said you were a bigot, which you give good grounds to believe of you.
But the fact that you would falsely attribute a quote to me says a lot. Keep digging your hole!
Or were you assuming I was only referring to 'persons of colour' (as opposed to transparent ones)? Hmm. That says more about you than it does me. Do you consider the Japanese racist for having essentially a nil immigration policy? The reason they give? To protect their culture and way of life. It's just a shame they couldn't care less what PC American privileged whities think, especially when they read about all the murders of black people by white American cops, or the racist attacks on other countries (I mean, Iraq was as good as any other muslim country to revenge attack after 11/9 because they are all the same anyway, and muslims are all 'tourists' by default). So no American is in any position to take the moral high ground in any sense whatsoever.
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Of course my judgments would always have to do with the culture. To repost my typical response to racism, I think it's just so misdirected and ignores the larger picture, because the truth is the biological differences between race is completely insignificant, when you compare it to the biological differences of the two sexes, and yet we don't at all see the same sort of conflict, especially from a lot of these same racist people. If men and women can get along, I think anyone of any race can. It's just a matter of beliefs correlated to those races, and how dividing they are to each other. Of course there will always be racial eugenicists, but those people are simply dumb and in the vast minority to the people who preferably make judgments based on that race's culture, and not the genes of the race itself.