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"The discrepancy" in the

artappraiser — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 04:54:59 +0000

"The discrepancy" in the quoted tweet "is mostly due to the 'white, liberal guilt' effect. Rather than black people being unusually likely to exhibit in-group preference, white liberals are extraordinarily likely to exhibit in-group aversion."

—@steevqj https://t.co/vlFk2e6mrZ
— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) February 20, 2023

Huge study involving over 7 million individuals finds that the ingroup bias (preference for one's own group) of black Americans is approximately 5 times stronger than the ingroup bias of whites.https://t.co/xe60NSmYPg
— Monitoring Bias (@monitoringbias) February 16, 2023

Aztecs were the misfits

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 02:39:30 +0000

In reply to ah, here's a nice thread with

Aztecs were the misfits exiled to a garbage island in Mexico's huge swamp until they developed their baddassery enough to come back and slaughter their rivals in innovative cruel ways.

Took armor to finally keep em down.

Welcome to America.

More of the same. Amen to the

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 23:07:53 +0000

In reply to ah, here's a nice thread with

More of the same. Amen to the Prof's tweet! Bout time! They were not children!

Read this great book on the Lakota as an empire, with a strong ability to adapt and to assimilate other populations

We need more books that treat Native American nations like we treat other societies, as people with politics and international relations pic.twitter.com/zZm6h99yqz
— XLProfessor (@XLProfessor) February 11, 2023

I'm endlessly fascinated by the way native nations in the 16th-18th centuries used European settlement dynamics to advance their own political agendas.
— Ben Feddersen (@SnoozeButtonBen) February 11, 2023

ah, here's a nice thread with

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 22:54:20 +0000

In reply to "Here be humans"

ah, here's a nice thread with some history of those *peace loving* Native American tribals (found retweeted by Brad De Long)

What if you launched a war against your neighbours, not to gain land or treasure, but to forcibly create new people?

The Iroquois Wars for Mourning, Grief, Revenge and Beavers in the 17th Century. pic.twitter.com/9WJA5LaEln
— Stone Age Herbalist (@Paracelsus1092) January 8, 2023

Believe it or not, boomers used to have history like this in high school textbooks. All forgotten now. Columbus and the other European *colonizers* are the only evil ones - that's a much simpler, easier-to-remember narrative, comes in handy when you are at a protest and wanna tear down a statue or two. Nowadays *history* is like whaddaboutism to the max.

better do whatever it is now

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 21:52:11 +0000

In reply to Commodity trading? Maybe use

better do whatever it is now cause this guy sounds ready to kill all those with the light skin:

Now you’re arguing against yourself, again. First it was a “white society,” then you said “how can we live in a white man’s world when they’re a minority…,” now this… man they did a number on you. God bless you. Find peace. https://t.co/yEOFNunbog pic.twitter.com/pzqyUVpnbU
— Barrington Martin II (@_BarringtonII) February 11, 2023

Commodity trading? Maybe use

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 06:18:19 +0000

In reply to ah, makes clear that the

Commodity trading? Maybe use NFTs.

Hey, maybe there's something in my Souern roots I can apply towards this scarcity in manpower...

ah, makes clear that the

artappraiser — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 18:23:44 +0000

In reply to "Here be humans"

ah, makes clear that the problem (outside of Africa) is that there's too many White people, so P.O.C. can't always get a teacher, doctor, lawyer or accountant that matches their skin color and sub-culture:

Do these knuckle heads know anything about demographics? Recruiting eminently employable not white people doesn't actually create opportunities or better qualified not white people or more qualified not white people.

It's just shuffling non whites from one place to another. https://t.co/R8hWsEtCJg
— Sock Puppets United (@ReasonedCenter) February 10, 2023

Stringer Bell was going to

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 09:24:19 +0000

In reply to Idris Elba, welcome to the

Stringer Bell was going to night class to get his degree.

No color code on that parchment. Even in Baltimore or LA.

Idris Elba, welcome to the

artappraiser — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 04:45:13 +0000

In reply to "Here be humans"

Idris Elba, welcome to the Intellectual Dark Web pic.twitter.com/7mZs0Y30AA
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) February 10, 2023

People are going to write dissertations on how Stringer Bell was always an assimilationist figure on The Wire
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) February 10, 2023

Cc @olivertraldi I had to steal your phrasing for this one
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) February 10, 2023

The signs were there all along! https://t.co/LX1aTAWFnG
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) February 10, 2023

Privileged kids'll wanna stay

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:18:03 +0000

In reply to Excellent question:

Privileged kids'll wanna stay up late on a school night - it's just begging for trouble, almost unnatural.