"The natives of the Andaman Islands are much more genetically similar to a Swede than they are to any African population...importantly, physical characteristics are subject to natural selection." https://t.co/Gx8Hix91oqpic.twitter.com/1tqVBzH0nB
“This identitarian bigotry came with a healthy helping of hypocrisy” — @rakibehsan calls out Dr Rupa Huq for claiming that Kwarteng’s private education made him “superficially” black when she herself was privately educated https://t.co/SMdiVolrKz
as an alternative, one can do tribal victim olympics:
The background to NHJ’s current historiographical interventions is actually quite a bit weirder than that, rooted in a set of apparently-never-disavowed Afrocentric pseudo-archaeological beliefs that seem to have been derived from the work of Ivan Van Sertima. https://t.co/ZKprIGRG3z
Given how some have critiqued the 1619 Project for marginalizing the place of Native Americans in colonial (particularly 17th century) history, it’s worth noting that Van Sertima was himself accused of “robbing” and “diminishing” Native American cultures: https://t.co/o4Xcnkbb1t
Leaves me wondering: how did it happen that the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center became the new Oxford Dictionary of the English language?
Kanye “Ye” West interview by Tucker Carlson on Fox News had nearly 3.6 million viewers. It had the largest viewership on cable news for Thursday with nearly 4 times the audience of CNN at that time.
turns out "the Jews" thing was just the last straw for Adidas:
Even before Adidas dropped Ye, both parties had been bickering for years, according to people who worked on the Yeezy brand https://t.co/F1bR7sGxVm via @BW
Victim Olympics currently trending on Twitter with The Jews. Here's the current top item:
As the Jews and the Polish demand reparations African-Americans have been demanding reparations for centuries and we never got so much as a headline but they tell us the Germans were the bad guys.https://t.co/VFPEO8mp4L
Is anybody actually trying to rename the Braves? Does this all come from one reporter asking the White House about it when they visited with Biden? https://t.co/k9aUgSzUMM
"No matter how different people may be...we all are human beings. And as such, everybody wants to be loved...respected...heard...treated fairly and truthfully." - @RealDarylDavis#BeProHuman
...Del Vecchio and Patel were arrested at their home, 18 miles from the murder scene, on February 15, 2018, after detectives traced a link to their mobile phones from their victims. Jackson, who rented a room in their home, was arrested a month later.
WhatsApp and Telegram messages also found on their phones added an unexpected twist to the killings. On February 9 the suspects discussed preparing to “kill the kuffar and abduct their alias, to destroy infrastructure and to put fear in the heart of the kuffar”. They also described the couple as “prey” who were ripe for a good “hunt”.
The development prompted the Foreign Office to issue a warning about a possible terrorism threat in South Africa. Detectives found Islamic State pamphlets and a flag at the defendants’ house at the time of the arrest, according to local reports at the time.
South Africa is Africa’s most industrialised country, and 2 per cent of the population is Muslim. It has never suffered a major Islamist attack but has become a hub of dirty money financing terrorism in southern and east Africa. Its weak security institutions, porous borders and rising lawlessness have led to large-scale trafficking of drugs, arms and people as terrorist groups seek to fill their war chests.
According to official reports, the couple’s remains were recovered after being eaten by crocodiles. Local fishermen said that remnants of their sleeping bags, including zippers, were seen in the teeth of crocodiles months after the bodies were retrieved from the water....
What's especially amazing to me here is what religion/ideology can do. Because Muslims are only 2% of the population there, so to these two, 98% of the population around them do not have the same rights to life that they do.
Not at Ithaca College, there they will be beings signified by their skin color:
SCOOP: Ithaca College is now asking faculty to register their race in an official database.
Administrators had recently pledged to "dismantle racist systems and white supremacy culture embedded in policy, pedagogy, and person at Ithaca College." pic.twitter.com/MowttLqKXR
A lot of the coverage of this has focused understandably on the crude language used by the councilmembers but the way they describe how politics should work is telling -- as if people of different ethnic groups cannot trust or represent each other https://t.co/jXmxKVx8pe
He's not a pedophile; the left headlines are stupidly playing up that he was near a school, when what he tells the officer is the thing they should be paying more attention to:
I see that by continuing its partnership with prominent antisemite Kanye West, @adidas is getting back to its roots as footwear of choice for the Hitler Youth. Interesting corporate choice! pic.twitter.com/lcQsojfZUv
HISTORICALLY, AS PART OF A RULER SCAPEGOATING THE JEWS FOR THEIR FAILURES OR OTHER TENSIONS, THEY WOULD KICK US OUT AND WE’D HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, not because we wanted to but because we *had no choice.*
By Dana Milbank, Columnist | @WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 28
On the holiest night of the Jewish year earlier this month, my rabbi looked up from his Kol Nidre sermon — a homily about protecting America’s liberal democracy — and posed a question that wasn’t in his prepared text: “How many people in the last few years have been at a dining room conversation where the conversation has turned to where might we move? How many of us?”
He was talking about the unthinkable: that Jews might need to flee the United States. In the congregation, many hands — most? — went up.
The sermon included a quotation from the Jewish scholar Michael Holzman: “For American Jews, the disappearance of liberal democracy would be a disaster. … We have flourished under the shelter of the principles behind the First Amendment, and we have been protected by the absolute belief in the rule of law. Without these, Jews, start packing suitcases.”
The fear of exile has become common as Jews see the unraveling rule of law, ascendant Christian nationalists and anti-Israel sentiments turning antisemitic on the far left. Wondering where Jews might move “is among the most frequently asked questions that I get,” Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, told me.
ncidents of antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assault nearly tripled between 2015 and 2021, the ADL reports, and it says 2022 attacks are on pace with last year’s record level. This week was the fourth anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, which was followed by other synagogue attacks in 2019 and earlier this year. One in 4 U.S. Jews has experienced antisemitism in the past year.
Now we have Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, unleashing a torrent of filth on social media (“death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE”), white supremacists applauding him (and giving Nazi salutes to Los Angeles motorists), Elon Musk’s Twitter preparing to welcome white supremacists, and the Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee deployingantisemitism against his Jewish opponent [.....]
Called attention to the above by this tweet:
As the criminal Trump and his co-conspirators in the @GOP openly promote antisemitism and other forms of hate, American Jews start to wonder if it's time to flee the country before we go full fascist. https://t.co/MTjrTHvbda
Talk is cheap.
It's open season on Jews in Brooklyn and elsewhere and you won't respect our right to self-defense.
I don't think you're an antisemite, but your policies are.
Vote @leezeldin. https://t.co/1lxBmIf11c
This is ironic because the Belgian colonists viewed the Tutsi as superior because they appeared to be more “white” than the Hutu. Interesting to observe how various types of race essentialists try desperately to force different ethnic groups into their preferred schema. https://t.co/4EWH68DUtapic.twitter.com/oV0ARJIOo7
As a final note, I think there’s a useful parallel here with how I think about racial threat; as @dhopkins1776 and co show, local demographic changes aren’t a sufficient explanation for rightward swing (https://t.co/hwDc6hi6mZ). My sense is a expectational loss might be. (13/N)
5/ for YEARS to cover for him, make excuses for him or defend him in the face of endless out of control, vicious and malicious behavior. Some cruel but semi-comic, much shocking. Here's the NBC report. https://t.co/pp7kNSD0wF
The last few weeks have been especially fun because I learned I am not actually North African because I’m not black and I’m not the religion I know that I am because I’m not black. To hell with afrocentrists, seriously.
I also think there is an information availability/capability asymmetry - there is too much information floating around for people that are unable to parse it, and possibly too little relevant information available for those that can.
Can't upload full video. I mind watching this part in "who do you think you are" when Billy Connolly found out he has Indian heritage pic.twitter.com/Yab5ppqlwX
One of the most incredible examples of a country changing its mind on an issue.
Without free speech, the incredibly unpopular 1958 viewpoint that said "there's nothing wrong with interracial marriage" would never have seen the light of day. pic.twitter.com/oPQXo99O56
"Black Hebrew Israelites are obviously a racist cult. Their creed is as wacky and crackpot as Scientology; their historical revisionism is based on Afrocentric myth." | @buffsoldier_96https://t.co/uatI5uvLSp
I hope they don't believe in anything as silly as God parting the waters of a major sea so a bunch of refugee can walk across. Come to think of it, Republicans should be horrified - what happens if the Gulf of Mexico opens up? Or even the St. Lawrence?
@ShimelisAbdisa declared the extermination of Amharas from Wellega. The local authorities mobilized the local youths aka Qeroo to destroy anything belongs to Amhara and Kill every Amhara
Not only is Abiy Ahmed afraid of his political rivals, but he is also obsessed with the Amhara people as an ethnic group, just like some members of the Oromo political elite. Bekele Gerba announced in 2019 on Ethio Forum, a now-defunct YouTube channel that was owned by the TPLF, that he suffers from Amhara phobia. In their distorted belief, these insecure Oromos are convinced that the Amhara will displace them one day, unless the Amharas are continually harassed, threatened, intimated, humiliated, oppressed, terrorized, even massacred. Abiy Ahmed is one of them. The crimes committed against the Amhara people today are crimes of insecurity by the Oromo elite.
His government has never brought to justice the perpetrators of the heinous crimes against the Amhara people. There is widespread suspicion that government officials are directly involved in the crimes committed against the Amharas throughout Ethiopia. No official who facilitated or participated in the systematic killings of the Amharas in Oromia or Benishangul has been brought to justice.
The Amharas have been prevented from entering Addis Ababa, in their own country, under the disguise of ‘security concerns’. The Amharas are being disarmed in Wollega so that they cannot defend themselves against the OLA or the other government-sponsored terrorist organizations. There is a plan to disarm the Amharas in the Amhara region so that they cannot defend themselves against the next round of invasion by the TPLF or OLA. Abiy Ahmed, indoctrinated in ethnic politics from a young age by the TPLF, steeped in the TPLF’s political intrigues of divide and rule, and ever obsessed with Amhara phobia, has engineered the intimidation, terrorization, brutalization, and killings of the Amharas. [....]
‘Irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954 a fascinating Kodachrome by Inge Morath. I love everything about this photo. pic.twitter.com/xCikIPrlvP
As part of the “White” ethnic group, 74.4% of the population in England and Wales identified their ethnic group as “English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British”.
(Language unites - while accents of spoken language might sub-divide far more than skin color does. Comes to mind that the recent mass grieving for the Queen was related.)
Mho, that binds them too. Actually that's one of the things I like about all the northern countries, since the Reformation, not passionate believers in religion, that's a feature, not a bug!
Interestingly, some of the most hostile reactions to Ngozi Fulani/Marlene Headley are from Black British people.
Includes some Black Africans who accuse her of botched cultural appropriation and a number of Black Caribbeans who feel she has discarded her Caribbean identity.
The reactions to the Hussey/Fulani row further highlight the limitations of "black community" as a socio-political concept - anything but a singular monolithic bloc.
In fact, it has shed further light on the social/political divides within the wider Black British population.
On supposed Afro-American tribal values, not tribal:
3-4 days ago a bunch of y’all were beefing at #CharlesBarkley because he said Black folks treat Black LGBT folks terribly. Now a gay teacher makes sure his students have Vaseline on they faces and call him a predator. Clown behavior. https://t.co/KMuoiTvo05
A black man put Vaseline on kids faces and y’all found pictures of him and called him gay to push some weird agenda that black men can’t be caregivers? C♾️ns. The whole lot of you.
calling that black teacher a pedo for putting vaseline on that boys face for picture day cuz the parents decide to send their child to school ashy is the most unhinge shit. teachers be putting up with a lot of you weirdo parents
Let me list all the problems that black Americans face that is shared by people of no other race.
Ok list over.
Yes, it is true: if a black person has a problem, an Asian or white person has THE SAME problem somewhere in America. There’s nothing special about your race.
It’s not a competition - it’s dangerous and scary for all of us- but Jewish people are having a particularly bad time again so thanks to all y’all standing with us and let’s keep fighting for each other https://t.co/QvM4z74yxV
Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley tracks segregation across the country. Look at the metro areas in the country that have seen a decline in segregation over the past 30 years. 8 of the top 10 are in the South. https://t.co/wz6ytQ9fdppic.twitter.com/cypi0kNxMS
a picture of assorted human genetics - guess which ones are the 'white' colonizer-imperialists now?
I co-chaired today's Peace, Security, and Governance Forum with @SecDef Austin and @PowerUSAID at the #USAfricaLeadersSummit22, where we underscored the inextricable links between democratic institutions and governance and long-term peace and prosperity. pic.twitter.com/wQNa4JcN91
A creative and critically conscious initiative proposing an Iranian culture that stands fully at its Black and African intersections
taking a quick gander of their tweets, I suspect part of the raison d'etre here is that they are working under the presumption that "Black" is a synonym for "oppressed", and also possibly that "intersectionality" means anyone can be "Black" ?
We are the descendants of Africans who were enslaved in America, but there is no denying that through slavery in America and everything that followed, we have become a new people.
Mayor Eric Adams is being dishonest and disrespectful.
This is treason. pic.twitter.com/srwDIIXEpH
Do whites in American run around saying, “I’m a European”?Even the whites who trace their roots to Europe know to claim a specific country in Europe. This imagery United States of Africa narrative is false and nonexistent.
Eric Adams as Mayor of NYC has influence too. He was very deliberate in his choice of words and was sending a message. Many black people like me will embrace his words and some like yourself will not. But, at the end of the day. He said what he said and stands on it.
— Sekou-Kamau a Gullah a Geechee & a Bama (@choobop22) December 21, 2022
Tory Lanez’s father speaks outside of the courthouse, calling the ruling “wickedness,” and screaming “God does not lose,” after Tory was convicted in Megan Thee Stallion shooting
Read More https://t.co/ZNchgBoewB#MeganTheeStallion#ToryLanez
This summer, Brinkley, who is Black, filed a gender and racial discrimination complaint against two supervising judges on the court, both of whom are also Black women.
I haven’t done an extensive dive into this but @JoHenrich’s books make me think mainstream acceptance of this sort of thing could have very bad consequences.
thread admirably admitting mistakenly falling for BLM agitprop
I believe many of us embraced the rallying call, "Black Lives Matter", as a genuine acknowledgement of a communal frustration abt strained police relations in some black-majority communities due to concerns of excessive police force & harassment.
This may be the most important piece of information offered the entire year of 2022. Well, even back to the late 60s when the strength of the black family was ignored in the proliferation of government handout to reward irresponsible men. White and black men. https://t.co/FUUdpPvLUP
"There's always been a small clique of black academics on the left, who believe they are leading all of black America. And it's very easy for them to convince non-black people that they speak for all black people."
Growing up in Jamaica in the 90's, everyone & their grand aunt wanted to emigrate to America. It was seen as the promised land of unlimited opportunity. Never did I hear from anyone that it was the worse place for black people to live because of reigning white supremacy till BLM.
It's not just remarkable, it's a seriously sick obsession with skin color in 21st-century first-world culture:
It's remarkable how frequently the reason someone points out that another person is white is to excuse some bad act against them. https://t.co/HjuMjakJo1
Nah, it's just same-old racism, tribalism, easy dismissal of "the other", or winning an argument thru whatever means. Most of our acts are not that profound or edgy. The banality of me-too.
Disagree - tribalizing people by skin color and stereotyping is FAR MORE ABSURD, especially in the 21-st century, then doing it by ethnicity or citizenship or culture! It's the stuff of illiterate idiots from a millennia ago. Truly truly idiotic, foolish, counter-productive and self-defeating.
Actually, the only place it makes sense is policing of criminals or runaways or unidentified victims, there you don't want to leave skin color out of your description, just as you don't want to leave out eye color, height and weight, fingerprints and DNA of course.
Morgan Freeman was asked by Morley Safer what he thought could stop racism. Freeman said, “Stop talking about it. I’ll stop calling you a white man, and you stop calling me a black man.” pic.twitter.com/HSIoTYu7cu
The color of the skin of the participants has nothing to do with this. I see these tribes: the kid's parents are struggling immigrants; the kid is an Asperger's-type genius; the music teacher believes in the meritocracy of musical talent. None of that is "fair" either.
The argument that minorities can't be racist because we don't make up the majority of the country and so "no have power" is a childishly bad low-IQ argument.
Among other problems, this assumes there is a single mono-racial ruling class, to which all whites and no POC belong.
(2) The reality is that there is a very diverse ruling US class, which is probably 25+% Asian, Jewish, "Vinyard Inkwell" Black, etc - and most power exchanges at that level and below are individual.
I could easily fire a white janitor, if I was a bigoted ass and wanted to.
Sigh - there is a downside to having most villains be black, Arab-Persian-like, Mexican, or German-looking/sounding - Gary Oldman and Anthony Perkins not withstanding. (presumably Ted Levine, aka the transsexual "Buffalo Bill" is even Jewish, I'd guess.) Then again, we get more African-American good guys than any of those other groups.
Whites displayed less in group bias then other racial groups and White Liberals were notable for being the only measured demographic with *negative* in group bias.
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.
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/yEOFNunbogpic.twitter.com/pzqyUVpnbU
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.
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
I'm endlessly fascinated by the way native nations in the 16th-18th centuries used European settlement dynamics to advance their own political agendas.
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.
"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."
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
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by artappraiser on Thu, 09/29/2022 - 7:35pm
"Southern. With complications."
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 09/30/2022 - 8:42am
Ditto.
by barefooted on Wed, 10/05/2022 - 12:35pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/30/2022 - 3:50pm
Sista Souljahed
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/01/2022 - 1:54am
as an alternative, one can do tribal victim olympics:
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/01/2022 - 4:04pm
(money is green)
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/03/2022 - 2:00pm
Kind of using white ppl as an ATM. Jes sayin'
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/03/2022 - 3:35pm
"white" is simply a bad word. Esp followed by "male"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kanye-west-white-lives-matter-shirt_n_633...
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 11:40am
Leaves me wondering: how did it happen that the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center became the new Oxford Dictionary of the English language?
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 12:00pm
As an alternative, Chloe here is selling her body
Just sayin what's right in front of your eyes.
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/05/2022 - 8:24pm
I'm sure her mother loves her.
Presumably someone finds this sexy. Her analist?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/06/2022 - 10:29am
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/06/2022 - 11:09am
yeah, he's just like Trump
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/07/2022 - 4:15pm
still going for the green:
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 4:04am
Kanye West’s antisemitism did what his anti-Blackness did not. And some people have a problem with that
Analysis by Lisa Respers France, CNN, Published 10:03 AM EDT, Sat October 29, 2022
Exclusive: Kanye West has a disturbing history of admiring Hitler, sources tell CNN
By Chloe Melas, CNN, Updated 3:31 PM EDT, Thu October 27, 2022
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/29/2022 - 2:31pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/29/2022 - 10:35pm
turns out "the Jews" thing was just the last straw for Adidas:
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/01/2022 - 3:11am
White WASP people are great until they want to sue you for not honoring a contract, then they are no better than those Jews?
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/29/2022 - 1:42pm
Victim Olympics currently trending on Twitter with The Jews. Here's the current top item:
same theme:
all sides really can play in this game.
Here's a reference to Marjorie Taylor Greene, her playing is now among the greatest hits of all time:
Here's an interesting one that includes them as part of a huge victim group
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 11:14am
no doubt about it, Victim Olympics sells:
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/04/2022 - 11:27am
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/05/2022 - 12:28am
not fellow humans but "kuffars"
from
What's especially amazing to me here is what religion/ideology can do. Because Muslims are only 2% of the population there, so to these two, 98% of the population around them do not have the same rights to life that they do.
by artappraiser on Wed, 10/05/2022 - 11:51am
Not at Ithaca College, there they will be beings signified by their skin color:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/06/2022 - 8:50pm
William Shatner Revealed What Going To Space Was Really Like, And It Doesn't Sound Like Too Much Fun
@ BuzzFeed, 7 hrs. ago
People who need people..., 1964
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/09/2022 - 11:44pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 12:44am
More here on my other thread
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/10/2022 - 5:35pm
He's not a pedophile; the left headlines are stupidly playing up that he was near a school, when what he tells the officer is the thing they should be paying more attention to:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/20/2022 - 7:09pm
furthermore, I'd advise not getting all hypocritical about it until they start deleting it on places like Twitter
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/20/2022 - 7:15pm
not a pretty picture of a 405 freeway overpass:
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/23/2022 - 2:42pm
Basically why the state of Israel exists -
by artappraiser on Sun, 10/23/2022 - 3:00pm
Curious if epigenetics actually shows a marker for such trauma imprinted in Jewish genes.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/24/2022 - 1:52am
Opinion: American Jews start to think the unthinkable
By Dana Milbank, Columnist | @WashingtonPost.com, Oct. 28
Called attention to the above by this tweet:
after noticing this one yesterday:
by artappraiser on Sat, 10/29/2022 - 8:35pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 10/28/2022 - 1:47am
from the end of a long thread I posted elsewhere
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/01/2022 - 7:00pm
Josh Marshall on Kanye:
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/04/2022 - 2:29pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 11/06/2022 - 7:00pm
they're just sayin'
anti-semitism is kinda special that way?
by artappraiser on Mon, 11/14/2022 - 12:48pm
plopping this interesting stat here because I don't know where else - 55% of Americans are still basically Christian believers:
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/18/2022 - 2:01am
by artappraiser on Mon, 11/21/2022 - 7:31pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/22/2022 - 6:16pm
Shit, Connolly's gonna have half of India eating haggis & spouting lines from Braveheart in a few short weeks.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 12/01/2022 - 5:10am
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/22/2022 - 10:00pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 11/23/2022 - 3:56am
I hope they don't believe in anything as silly as God parting the waters of a major sea so a bunch of refugee can walk across. Come to think of it, Republicans should be horrified - what happens if the Gulf of Mexico opens up? Or even the St. Lawrence?
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 11/23/2022 - 11:28am
Some wonderful fruits of tribalism:
'Splainer excerpted from
The Insecure Prime Minister and his Amhara Phobia byTigist Bekka @ borkena.com, November 22, 2022
by artappraiser on Wed, 11/23/2022 - 9:44pm
oh boy, tribal claims over dead celebrity:
by artappraiser on Sat, 11/26/2022 - 4:34pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 2:49am
by artappraiser on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 7:02pm
Diversity Truthspeak for Conformity
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 7:27pm
they're all British:
(Language unites - while accents of spoken language might sub-divide far more than skin color does. Comes to mind that the recent mass grieving for the Queen was related.)
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/29/2022 - 6:21pm
Increasingly and rapidly, Brits have no religion:
Mho, that binds them too. Actually that's one of the things I like about all the northern countries, since the Reformation, not passionate believers in religion, that's a feature, not a bug!
by artappraiser on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 2:43pm
yes!
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/05/2022 - 4:56am
On supposed Afro-American tribal values, not tribal:
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/29/2022 - 11:55pm
He's defintely not a racist, that's for sure:
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/03/2022 - 4:13pm
Sorry, don't buy it.
Someone's always gonna be at the bottom
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/03/2022 - 7:48pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/03/2022 - 8:22pm
Sarah Silverman & Sean Lennon:
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/06/2022 - 1:37pm
Giving the actual numbers (events/mill*population)
Jews 138*7.5m = 1050
Blacks 54*50m = 2700
Muslims 63*3.5m = 221
Vancouver 2020 = 100 anti-Asian hate crimes (more than top 10 US cities combined?)
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/06/2022 - 4:07pm
On Ethiopian civil war, analyst opinion that Abiy manipulates tribalism but doesn't really believe in it:
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/06/2022 - 1:43pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/10/2022 - 4:55am
Sometimes it's good to fantasize about how we could all get along; I love this - it's goofy but I keep going back to it:
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/10/2022 - 5:06am
If you include The Eagles you've lost Radio Free Tom and the Big Lebowski. (Actually Tom may be more against Led Zeppelin)
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/11/2022 - 4:41am
a picture of assorted human genetics - guess which ones are the 'white' colonizer-imperialists now?
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 12:51am
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/14/2022 - 3:12pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/17/2022 - 3:10pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/17/2022 - 8:09pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 12/18/2022 - 11:42am
by artappraiser on Wed, 12/21/2022 - 11:11am
oh look it's "the Black community"
by artappraiser on Fri, 12/23/2022 - 5:31pm
and then there's lily white guys that *look like* racists:
by artappraiser on Fri, 12/23/2022 - 5:34pm
more "the Black community" stuff:
(where were those social workers?)
by artappraiser on Fri, 12/23/2022 - 10:32pm
The Philly judge who jailed Meek Mill has had all her criminal cases reassigned, kicking off a legal battle
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philly-judge-genece-brinkley-criminal-cour...
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/24/2022 - 12:25am
I love this part
by artappraiser on Sat, 12/24/2022 - 4:15am
Ironic, but possible.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 12/24/2022 - 7:22am
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/27/2022 - 12:12am
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/29/2022 - 12:28pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 12/29/2022 - 8:44pm
edit to add two replies:
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/01/2023 - 10:22pm
thread admirably admitting mistakenly falling for BLM agitprop
after his thread, note his replies to repliers as well
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/01/2023 - 10:29pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/02/2023 - 4:08pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/03/2023 - 12:30am
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/03/2023 - 12:39am
It's not just remarkable, it's a seriously sick obsession with skin color in 21st-century first-world culture:
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/07/2023 - 6:33pm
Nah, it's just same-old racism, tribalism, easy dismissal of "the other", or winning an argument thru whatever means. Most of our acts are not that profound or edgy. The banality of me-too.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/08/2023 - 5:11am
Disagree - tribalizing people by skin color and stereotyping is FAR MORE ABSURD, especially in the 21-st century, then doing it by ethnicity or citizenship or culture! It's the stuff of illiterate idiots from a millennia ago. Truly truly idiotic, foolish, counter-productive and self-defeating.
Actually, the only place it makes sense is policing of criminals or runaways or unidentified victims, there you don't want to leave skin color out of your description, just as you don't want to leave out eye color, height and weight, fingerprints and DNA of course.
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/08/2023 - 7:42pm
"same-old" = "millennia ago". Nothing new here or extremely shocking, except that it's shocking there's nothing new here.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/08/2023 - 8:30pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/09/2023 - 7:18am
The color of the skin of the participants has nothing to do with this. I see these tribes: the kid's parents are struggling immigrants; the kid is an Asperger's-type genius; the music teacher believes in the meritocracy of musical talent. None of that is "fair" either.
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/10/2023 - 7:00pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 3:26pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 4:07pm
I tried asking everyone to just STFU, but they wouldn't do it. Woke peeps are keeping me wok at night - even Harry, tho i mostly don't understand him.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 01/14/2023 - 6:12pm
and lo and behold, the above got a racist to reply
meanwhile Nanjiani still can't get villain roles, maybe it's all "the Jews" controlling Hollywood et. al., maybe he should get together with Kanye
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 4:40pm
Sigh - there is a downside to having most villains be black, Arab-Persian-like, Mexican, or German-looking/sounding - Gary Oldman and Anthony Perkins not withstanding. (presumably Ted Levine, aka the transsexual "Buffalo Bill" is even Jewish, I'd guess.) Then again, we get more African-American good guys than any of those other groups.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/16/2023 - 4:37am
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/15/2023 - 4:44pm
Excellent question:
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 4:19pm
Privileged kids'll wanna stay up late on a school night - it's just begging for trouble, almost unnatural.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 6:18pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/09/2023 - 11:45pm
Stringer Bell was going to night class to get his degree.
No color code on that parchment. Even in Baltimore or LA.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/10/2023 - 4:24am
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:
by artappraiser on Fri, 02/10/2023 - 1:23pm
Commodity trading? Maybe use NFTs.
Hey, maybe there's something in my Souern roots I can apply towards this scarcity in manpower...
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 1:18am
better do whatever it is now cause this guy sounds ready to kill all those with the light skin:
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 4:52pm
ah, here's a nice thread with some history of those *peace loving* Native American tribals (found retweeted by Brad De Long)
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.
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 5:54pm
More of the same. Amen to the Prof's tweet! Bout time! They were not children!
by artappraiser on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 6:07pm
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.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 02/11/2023 - 9:39pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/19/2023 - 11:54pm