dilloduck
Diamond Member
Don't blame ya--it's just a debate about, race , religion with some politics mixed in. Some folks gotta little surprised and upset by some AJ's points and it dwindled into this.
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Originally posted by dilloduck
Don't blame ya--it's just a debate about, race , religion with some politics mixed in. Some folks gotta little surprised and upset by some AJ's points and it dwindled into this.
Originally posted by dilloduck
Originally posted by ajwps
yes. Obviously. as per the above described dogmatic injunction.
And obviously as a member of the 'white race' your inclusion into those who are not of that race and in that class of humanity should not mix with the lower races.
Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
Originally posted by ajwps
Why does the government have race checkboxes on many of it's forms? WHite or caucasian is ALWAYS one of the choices. I believe your spurious assertion that the white race does not exist is shared by few, but by all means, keep blabbering on about it.
And I think the last part was supposed to be an insult of some kind, it's incoherence rendered it ineffective, however.
So US Government forms substantiate humanity into 'races'?
So US government forms have checkboxes to checkoff racial choices such as:
White
Jew
Christian
Eskimo
Yellow
Red
Brown
Muslim
Hindu
Other
Moron
Which racial box would you check off?
Originally posted by ajwps
Why does the government have race checkboxes on many of it's forms? WHite or caucasian is ALWAYS one of the choices. I believe your spurious assertion that the white race does not exist is shared by few, but by all means, keep blabbering on about it.
And I think the last part was supposed to be an insult of some kind, it's incoherence rendered it ineffective, however.
So US Government forms substantiate humanity into 'races'?
So US government forms have checkboxes to checkoff racial choices such as:
White
Jew
Christian
Eskimo
Yellow
Red
Brown
Muslim
Hindu
Other
Moron
Which racial box would you check off?
Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
Originally posted by dilloduck
Originally posted by José
The historical definition of race, before the development of evolutionary biology, was that of common lineage, a vague concept interchangeable with species, breed, cultural origin, or national character ("The whole race of mankind." Shakespeare; "From whence the race of Alban fathers come" Dryden).
The word race, interpreted to mean common descent, was introduced into English in about 1580, from the Old French "rasse" (1512), from Italian razza, which may have been derived from the Latin word generatio (a begetting).
This late origin for the English and French terms is consistent with the thesis that the concept of "race" as defining a very small number of groups of human beings based on lineage dates from the time of Columbus. Older concepts that were also at least partly based on common descent, such as nation and tribe, entail a much larger number of groupings.
The first published classification of humans into distinct "races" seems to have been François Bernier's Nouvelle division de la terre par les différents espèces ou races qui l'habitent ("New division of Earth by the different species or races which inhabit it"), published in 1684. Bernier (1625-1688) distinguished four "races":
Europeans, including South Asians, North Africans and Native Americans, but excluding Lapps
Far Easterners
Sub-Saharan Africans
Lapps
The 19th century concept of race was based primarily on morphological and cosmetic characteristics such as skin color, facial type, cranial profile and amount, texture and color of hair. Though such characteristics have since been declared by many experts to have a minimal relationship with any other heritable characteristics, they retain some persuasive force because it is easy to immediately distinguish people based on physical appearance.
Because people of different races can interbreed, this method of classification is "weak" in the sense that it can be difficult to determine to which categories some borderline individuals belong. (Contrast the difficulty of determining to which group a child of mixed parentage belongs with the much more clear-cut decisions involved in determining membership in species). In other words, racial purity does not have a clear biological meaning. On the other hand, it is clear that for an extended period of time after Homo sapiens' first migrations from Africa (probably around 80,000 BC) and before the rise of wheeled and seagoing transportation (around 3000 BC), geographically isolated groups of people underwent some degree of divergent evolution. Whether that degree was high enough to merit strict taxa beneath the species level is the primary question that has roiled the generations of human biologists since the 1800s. It is a complicated issue full of semantic and emotional pitfalls, with much at stake on the consensus, for educators, physicians, political officeholders, judges, law enforcement officers and many others look upon scientific findings as the bedrock authority for their curricula, diagnostic methods, budget expenditures, case law and criminal suspect profiling.
Among the 19th-century naturalists who defined the field were Georges Cuvier, James Cowles Pritchard, Louis Agassiz, Charles Pickering (Races of Man and Their Geographical Distribution, 1848), and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Cuvier enumerated three races, Pritchard seven, Agassiz eight, and Pickering eleven.
Originally posted by José
You know I hate the jewish state. . . .
Why do you hate it?
Originally posted by José
Originally posted by freeandfun1
Originally posted by José
Hell no
I hate the state of Israel for the same reason I hate Nazi Germany, Iraq under Hussein and South Africa under apartheid. Because I don't like ethnic supremacisms, I don't like racial dictatorships.
I believe that the legitimacy of modern states must be based on a notion of political rights of autonomous individual subjects. A modern state must never acknowledge ethnic, national or racial identity and should instead enforce political and legal equality of all individuals.
So the idea behind Israel, a jewish ethnic state, belongs to the the past and Israel should evolve from a jewish state to a civic state, a state of citizens.
Originally posted by freeandfun1
But you make no sense. There are many Muslim Israelies so I am not sure what your beef is with them. Hell, the Muslims are the only group NOT REQUIRED to serve in the military. You obviously no nothing about what you are TRYING to talk about.