The white anxiety behind Steve King’s appalling remarks

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  1. rayznack

    rayznack Well-Known Member

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    So you agree racial differences are more than skin deep and include skull structure, for instance?
     
  2. rayznack

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    So why did you refer back to early documents if you don't care what they say because non-whites can now be naturalized?

    I showed our first immigration act only allowed whites to immigrate to the united States; even after revision, non-whites could not be naturalized until the early 20th century, and until 1965, our immigration policy favored white immigrants.

    Btw, 'racism' is not an argument; it means nothing whether something is racist anymore than being happy makes someone automatically wrong.
     
  3. Polydectes

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    No, that's only a superficial difference.
     
  4. rayznack

    rayznack Well-Known Member

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    No to what?

    You do or don't believe there are racial skeletal differences between whites and blacks?
     
  5. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    No to your question. Do you have difficulty understanding how conversations work?

    I make no claim either way.
     
  6. Guno

    Guno Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Racism existed everywhere in the past, as did slavery, and neither has been totally eliminated yet in some parts of the world.
    Some of my ancestors came to the U.S. as indentured servants, and it took several generations and much hard work to emerge gradually from various levels of poverty.
     
  8. dairyair

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    I guess confusion among the founders words.
    There is those words that said 'all men are created equal'.
     
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    cd8ed Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am super excited to see how illegal immigrants from a drug war torn country or blacks (1/2 of all crime - 13% of the population) treat other ethnicities once they gain control. Let's look at other nation states they rule over and estimate the outcome here.

    There are already calls for whites being censored and white males to be denied the right to vote.
     
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    That's not what I asked. Are there identifiable skeletal differences between races?
     
  11. rayznack

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    Those words obviously referred to whites and probably anglos whites at that. Do you accept America was founded for and by whites?
     
  12. Polydectes

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    I don't know. I'm not an orthopedist or an archeologist.
     
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  13. dairyair

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    No. By definition there is one race. The human race.
     
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    I do not. And racists need to realize that.
    Do you?
     
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    Then what is the 100 yard dash, chopped liver?
     
  16. dairyair

    dairyair Well-Known Member

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    Thought you'd be to embarrassed to show up. Since you claim and run.
     
  17. doombug

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    Nah, I came, I saw, I dominated....as usual.
     
  18. Guno

    Guno Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Or educated

    it would be a
    physical anthropologist, which is an interdisciplinary field of biology, biological anthropology, nutrition and medicine, concentrates upon international, population-level perspectives on health, evolution, anatomy, physiology, adaptation and population genetics.

    Interesting, to give pause to the

    racists

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin
     
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  19. dairyair

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    Yep. A legend, in your own mind. Nothing to be proud of.
     
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    I'm uneducated because I didn't list the right academic term for a bone expert?
     
  21. rayznack

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    Do I accept the fact the US was founded by and for whites?

    Who founded the US if it wasn't by whites, and how wasn't the US for whites if only whites could become citizens?
     
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    If there are identifiable racial skeletal differences, then how could race be skin deep?
     
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    You're confusing species for race. There are multiple races and more ethnicities.
     
  24. Polydectes

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    Metaphorically? Differences in anatomy don't indicate much of anything outside of differences in anatomy.

    If you were saying it's only skin deep in a literal sense I've never heard anybody make that statement.
     
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    Usage note
    Genetic evidence has undermined the idea of racial divisions of the humanspecies and rendered race obsolete as a biological system of classification.Race therefore should no longer be considered as an objective category, asthe term formerly was in expressions like the Caucasian race, the Asianrace, the Hispanic race.Instead, if the reference is to a particular inheritedphysical trait, as skin color or eye shape, that salient feature should bementioned specifically: discrimination based on color.Rather than usingrace to generalize about national or geographic origin, or even religiousaffiliation, it is better to be specific: South Korean, of Polishdescent.References to cultural affiliation may refer to ethnicity or ethnicgroup: Kurdish ethnicity, Hispanic ethnicity.Though race is no longerconsidered a viable scientific categorization of humans, it continues to beused by the U.S. Census to refer to current prevalent categories of self-identification that include some physical traits, some historical affiliations,and some national origins: black, white, American Indian, Chinese,Samoan,etc. The current version of the census also asks whether or notAmericans are of Hispanic origin, which is not considered a race. There aretimes when it is still accurate to talk about race in society. Though race haslost its biological basis, the sociological consequences of historical racialcategories persist. For example, it may be appropriate to invoke race todiscuss social or historical events shaped by racial categorizations, asslavery, segregation, integration, discrimination, equal employment policy.Often in these cases, the adjective “racial” is more appropriate than thenoun “race.” While the scientific foundation for race is now disputed, racialfactors in sociological and historical contexts continue to be relevant.
    http://www.dictionary.com/browse/race
     

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