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How to fight racism (this forum desperately needs to be educated) [W:54]

Re: How to fight racism (this forum desperately needs to be educated)

AmericanSpartan said:
https://www.google.com/search?q=gun...5.6903j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

Read "A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes Race and Human History"
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I challenge you to find ANY great work in the sciences since the 1950's where there isn't a plethora of claims that "It's not true!" For instance, the first link on the Google page you referenced was a guy who didn't like that Diamond didn't give credit to military and political decision-makers instead of the resources those civilizations and cultures had to work with. Just because the guy didn't like what Diamond had to say doesn't mean that Diamond is wrong. It just means that YOU found someone whose words are to YOUR mind sufficient to bring Diamond into question.

Like a Phoenix out of the Dark Ages.

Sure, it was all luck. LOL.

That as due to the political turmoil Confucianism produced.

And yet their armies counted for nothing as all great empires commit suicide.
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Do they commit suicide? One would think that a capitalist who believes that competition in the marketplace means that no company will stay on top forever would understand that the same principle applies to nations.

[/QUOTE]Explain away the last 300 years.

Explain how coming from the great disadvantages we come to so power, control, and brilliance.[/QUOTE]

Explain the other 27,000 years that we were NOT on top out of the past 30,000 years. Just because we've had 300 years on top doesn't mean that we're the best - it means that we've had a good run...and that's about it. Just like the free market - Microsoft was on top for almost two decades, and because Windows and Office were everywhere, nobody really thought that anyone would dethrone them for decades to come...least of all Apple. But then something happened, didn't it?

The great wheel turns, all things must end...and this will eventually include our own time at the top. Get used to it.
 
Re: How to fight racism (this forum desperately needs to be educated)

Glen Contrarian said:
I challenge you to find ANY great work in the sciences since the 1950's where there isn't a plethora of claims that "It's not true!" For instance, the first link on the Google page you referenced was a guy who didn't like that Diamond didn't give credit to military and political decision-makers instead of the resources those civilizations and cultures had to work with. Just because the guy didn't like what Diamond had to say doesn't mean that Diamond is wrong. It just means that YOU found someone whose words are to YOUR mind sufficient to bring Diamond into question.
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Germs and their existence?

Nuclear Fission and Fusion?

Africa has more resources then any place on Earth and that did not help them one wit.


Do they commit suicide? One would think that a capitalist who believes that competition in the marketplace means that no company will stay on top forever would understand that the same principle applies to nations.
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Yes, they cut off trade, and burned their ships, what else could that be called?

[/QUOTE]Explain away the last 300 years.

Explain how coming from the great disadvantages we come to so power, control, and brilliance.[/QUOTE]

Explain the other 27,000 years that we were NOT on top out of the past 30,000 years. Just because we've had 300 years on top doesn't mean that we're the best - it means that we've had a good run...and that's about it. Just like the free market - Microsoft was on top for almost two decades, and because Windows and Office were everywhere, nobody really thought that anyone would dethrone them for decades to come...least of all Apple. But then something happened, didn't it?

The great wheel turns, all things must end...and this will eventually include our own time at the top. Get used to it.
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Decline is a choice, a choice some of us want to force on others.
 
Re: How to fight racism (this forum desperately needs to be educated)

Glen Contrarian said:
"Selling their daughters to brothels"? If you'll recall, it was NORMAL among royalty and the rich in the West to arrange marriages for financial and diplomatic advantage...and how, exactly, is this different from selling a daughter to a brothel? It just means she's got one client instead of many.
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so you equate a rich royal daughter having an arranged marriage to another wealthy royal, to a peasant girl being sold to a brothel and getting tied up and raped numerous times - that's the same?? yeah right:roll:
 
Re: How to fight racism (this forum desperately needs to be educated)

Glen Contrarian said:
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When it comes to yelling at each other instead of debating, perhaps you should watch 'discussions' in England's House of Commons sometimes.
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not the same thing, it's formal debate in the commons not fisticuffs or trashy yelling

Many Asian nations are far hotter, hence more showers, but as for reading your book, screw that - I don't need to , I've experience the real thing for many years, and forget about Singapore,I'm talking about the poor parts of Asia here
 
Re: How to fight racism (this forum desperately needs to be educated)

Rightwingguy said:
not the same thing, it's formal debate in the commons not fisticuffs or trashy yelling

Many Asian nations are far hotter, hence more showers, but as for reading your book, screw that - I don't need to , I've experience the real thing for many years, and forget about Singapore,I'm talking about the poor parts of Asia here
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So am I. There are parts of India that are incredibly poor...but the same goes for other places in Asia, too, and in many of these places, even though there's a lot of trash outside (which is a trait of ALL poverty-ridden nations that I can think of), the people themselves are much cleaner.

And when it comes to "far hotter", it's not much hotter than where I grew up Down South in the summertime...but they're still cleaner than most Americans in the hot time of the year here.
 
Re: How to fight racism (this forum desperately needs to be educated)

some of that is down to Christian brainwashing in the South, you know, where it's meant to be giving grace to the Lord by not washing etc...
 
Re: How to fight racism (this forum desperately needs to be educated)

Rightwingguy said:
some of that is down to Christian brainwashing in the South, you know, where it's meant to be giving grace to the Lord by not washing etc...
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It's too bad that having your brain thoroughly washed doesn't do a damn thing to make your body smell good. Maybe the bible should have said, "If thy eye offends thee, pluck it out. If thy ass is funky, soap it up". I suppose, though, that like many aspects of religion, it proves itself by offending OTHERS, not necessarily the infected. There's no admonishment to avoid offending others, though. In fact, it's to be expected.
 
Re: How to fight racism (this forum desperately needs to be educated)

Rightwingguy said:
some of that is down to Christian brainwashing in the South, you know, where it's meant to be giving grace to the Lord by not washing etc...
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Or maybe they did not want to stink up the church...Just a theory.
 
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