(08-01-2016, 02:25 PM)MillsT_98 Wrote:(08-01-2016, 11:11 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(07-31-2016, 11:30 PM)MillsT_98 Wrote:(07-31-2016, 11:23 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Even worse to the white racists is that many white people are having non-white babies.
Wow, racial purity, because the only thing worse to them than being non-white is being partially non-white!
I resemble that remark!
In my opinion I think racial purity is stupid, because we all descended from the same ancestors from Africa thousands of years ago. If you look back far enough, we all have common ancestors. Because of this, you can't really be "pure" anything. White supremacists would hate to think they were descendents of Africans (although far removed from them). I'm not against anyone identifying themselves as a certain race, but to think one race is better than another is ridiculous. We all have different cultures, and I'd like to respect that diversity.
It's tribalism, very much an Agrarian Age phenomenon.
If racism had any validity it would find a defense in genetics. Skin color obviously does nothing to establish intelligence or character, and even skin color is explicable in genetics -- but with much complexity. The cause of light skin color in Koreans (arguably the palest of East Asians) is not the same as the cause of pale skin color in Europeans. Dark skin color can often be found in peoples most genetically different from West Africans.
Over time, the significant population most out of place between skin color and environment (white Australians, and East Asians are much the same in that respect) will get genetic mutations tat turn them practically black in skin and hair color, even without ethnic admixture. That will take about the same time as it took for people of northern India (who are Caucasoid) to get as dark as they are now -- like peoples of the Horn of Africa.
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If racist claptrap really were true it would find a defense in genetics. 'Race' is so muddled as a concept that the experts on heritable patterns in humanity, the geneticists, find it unworthy of discussion. Scientists are a talkative lot, and they are horribly incompetent at keeping secrets. (That probably explains why the Soviets found it easy to get atom bomb secrets, a different story in itself). People who talk the most about racial differences in character and intelligence generally know the least about genetics and are most prone to mystical thought. Environment has selected for 'racial' characteristics in the past and will likely do so again. If you should take a time machine to Australia some 4000 years from now, then do not expect to find white people in large numbers even if the people still have a core culture derived almost exclusively from Great Britain and Ireland. Those people will look like white people except for teak-like skin shades and frizzy black hair.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.