MeFi comment:
"African-Americans whose families pre-date the Civil War are mostly descended from:
- west and central Africans
- the losers in intra-African wars during the slave trade period
- docile slaves who did not resist their enslavers/owners to the..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Baby_Balrog, shen1138, BrotherCaine, moxiedoll, johnasdf, Forktine
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"A tattoo is another way of saying "I didn't go to college."
OK, I get not liking this, or finding it extreme, but this is just a stupid sentiment.
Blanket generalizations are another way of saying "I'm an ignorant ass...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Crusty, nomisxid, Dumsnill, fire&wings, perilous
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If someone can point me to scientific studies establishing these points I'd be very grateful.
Here you go:
"Environmental Health Disparities: A Framework Integrating Psychosocial and Environmental Concepts"
Gilbert C. Gee, Devon C...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by LiliaNic, Mister Cheese, The White Hat
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So I think it should be okay to question it all, every whit. Even stuff that seems to be set in stone. If something is really true, it can handle the scrutiny.
I whole-heartedly 1000% agree with this statement. Now apply it to your religious..." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by premortem, drdevice, quin, peacheater, like_neon, zardoz, violette, bonaldi, axon, feloniousmonk, adamp88, Guy Smiley, Locative, bettafish, Nice Guy Mike, jtron, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, misha, marble, stavrogin, delmoi, dobbs, Pope Guilty
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Anansi said that it's impossible for white people to have 'the first inkling' of what racism is about, and that white people have never and will never experience prejudice or bigotry. As if it's categorically impossible, by virtue of their whiteness,..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by cashman, AceRock, hadjiboy, teleri025, misha, jtron, shmegegge
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"(as if a bunch of relatively privileged whitefolks have even the first inkling of what racism is. . . mothafucka please)
That sort of thing doesn't help much at all, and it's also condescending.
I've yet to fuck anyone's motha as well...." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by cashman, chunking express, jammy, Locative, delmoi, shmegegge, hadjiboy, nooneyouknow, Blazecock Pileon, stirfry
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"What The Fuck! I generally really enjoy Metafilter, however it becomes increasingly evident that despite the overall high quality of posts, anything that mentions black people, black culture or any other kind of blackness will inevitably be fucked..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by cashman, AceRock, afu, hydropsyche, jammy, delmoi, jtron, shmegegge, nooneyouknow
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I will, for the sake of clarity, define my terms. Prejudice is to hold opinions or notions about a group that are not founded upon experience or fact. Bigotry is to dislike a group for the very fact that they are different from you. Racism is the..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by cashman, dyoneo, shmegegge, afu, misha, jammy, jonmc
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Goddamn it! I was trying to stay out of this thread, but I'm sick of people mischaracterizing my statements.
I said that it is infuriating to be told by people who had no idea what racism was like to be told (everytime) that what you are..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by cashman, jtron, delmoi, hadjiboy, shmegegge
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"No, you'll reiterate it by setting all of the conditions in your favor. Again, you're asking for people who you define as biologists, but limit the possible set of "biologists" to "people who believe the thing you're trying to prove...." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Artichoke Dance Off!!, misha, grubi, gaspode, Foci for Analysis, Blazecock Pileon, Pope Guilty
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wouldn't the common ancestor of Apes and man also be classified as an Ape? In fact, arn't humans technically apes? That's what wikipedia says.
Nah, apes are pongids. We're homonids. Apes are actually much cooler than we are...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Zero Gravitas
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, with all of these wonderful, "black people can't run their own country/city/etc.) comments, I almost thought that I was on Digg for second. Nice going resident Metafilter racists. BRAVO!..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by jammy, Dreama, delmoi, bettafish, nasreddin
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I've had the same issues about watching this film as DecemberBoy. I'm really just not comfortable watching it. However, I have seen DJ Spooky's interpolation of the film, which he mixes with jazz. He was at MOCA about a year or two ago. Watching..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rarebit Fiend
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I imagine something similar happened in Africa - given that it's the ancestral starting point of all humanity, you would expect to see more language families represented there, but Bantu seems to have gained the dominant position.
There's quite a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bokane
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"He's wrong because attacking hip hop culture is useless. It is attacking a symptom not a problem. He's wrong because black conservatives have attacked the culture of black youth/black poverty/black hipness since the early 20th century when the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The Hudson Institute, the backers of this study.
Herman Kahn, the guy who founded the Hudson Institute.
A critique of the Hudson Institute by Source Watch.
Another critique.
Hmm......" [
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favorited 20 times, recently by schyler523, keds, tehloki, salvia, Stewriffic, jocelmeow, HighTechUnderpants, ryanfou, finite, dreamsign, lalochezia, RakDaddy, davejay, quarter waters and a bag of chips, arcticwoman, mert, Baby_Balrog, Terminal Verbosity, H-Bar, flamk
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So you take a scientifically fuzzy category (race), and then use it to explain a scientifically fuzzy idea (intelligence). Yeah, there's bound to be really good results coming out of this. Once again from the top:
1.)so-called racial traits do..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by estherbester, not_that_epiphanius, lumensimus, baphomet, granted, desiderandus, ao4047, god hates math, violette, jokeefe, puddnhead, Ira.metafilter, maryh, public, tehloki, sotonohito, PareidoliaticBoy, nasreddin
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What offensive thing did I say? Seriously?
Well, race is meaningless scientifically. In debating that point you come off as advocating the idea that race is a measurable, scientific category and as such you are lending validity to the racial..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Baby_Balrog
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Geez -- that day that Hinduism, Moslemism or gimcrack Bhuddism produces a Samuel Johnson, a Bach, a John Updike, Michelangelo, Raphael, Handel, J.R.R. Tolkein, John Donne, Flannery O'Conner, Rosetta Tharpe, Swan Silvertones, Leo Tolstoy, Dante, or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, but black people really do commit like 300% more crime than anybody. You can look that shit up somewhere.
I think that what you will find is that poor people commit (or are arrested for, not the same thing) disproportionately more crime..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by matkline, batmonkey
Last year
