• emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    all words are made up, they don't magically become "real" words after 100 years

  • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I remember seeing a Nazi meme that “Jewish Bolshevik mass murderer Leon Trotsky” invented the word “racism” to shut down debate

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Don't worry. After spending some time in their white ethnostate (i.e. a nice enclosed space somewhere in Siberia), they'll come to see reason.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded utterance of the word racism was by a man named Richard Henry Pratt in 1902

    this is one of the guys who did boarding schools for indians and was speaking against 'racism' of the people who wanted to kill all the natives whereas he only wanted to erase their culture :the-more-you-know:

  • Teekeeus
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    27 days ago

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  • Kuori [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    this is honestly so dumb it's nearly beyond parody

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      The 1901 Dorland’s Medical Dictionary defined heterosexuality as an “abnormal or perverted appetite toward the opposite sex.” More than two decades later, in 1923, Merriam Webster’s dictionary similarly defined it as “morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex.”

      Gotta get me some old timey dictionaries so I can feel dirty while I do it in the missionary position, the way the straight white christian God intended.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Back to tradition. Every gym power lifter should also be fucking the homies. It's what Leonidas would have wanted.

  • World_Wario_II [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Wait til they find out “race” is a word that didn’t exist until the 17th century and is also a made up thing

      • World_Wario_II [he/him]
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        I’m just applying their logic. If racism isn’t real because the word was made up recently, then it follows that race also isn’t real because the word was also made up recently. They can’t have their cake and eat it too.

        In reality, racism is a real social phenomena (obviously) and a word is just used to describe it. It obviously existed as an act before the invention of the term.

        Whereas race is an entirely fictional and scientifically unsupported categorization system made entirely out of false assumptions. Science proves there is no such thing as race in a biological sense, only in the self-fulfilling prophecy social categorization sense.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          Whereas race is an entirely fictional and scientifically unsupported categorization system made entirely out of false assumptions. Science proves there is no such thing as race in a biological sense, only in the self-fulfilling prophecy social categorization sense.

          The concept of Species and Genus are well defined. Race presumes a sub-species categorization from sufficiently distant historical lines, often as a prelude to speciation.

          There are meaningful distinctions between human populations that diverged from one another prior to the last Ice Age. And there is scientific value in sub-categorizing populations with certain peculiarities of body chemistry - I've got a particular kind of benign anemia that's unique to Mediterranean populations, for instance.

          The racism comes into play when you try and "rank" populations, particularly when that ranking cares a class character. There's no natural "master/slave" relationship. Brain plasticity, combined with education and environment, make IQ a bunk measurement of human potential.

          The idea of race isn't awful on its face. But the mythology of race - combined with the pseudoscience that springs up around genetic variance - is absolutely poisonous to any serious scientific categorization.

          That's before you start pointing out the value of melanin on the eve of a global climate heat spike to a few million pasty faced scions of glacier nomads.

          • World_Wario_II [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            There are meaningful distinctions between human populations that diverged from one another prior to the last Ice Age. And there is scientific value in sub-categorizing populations with certain peculiarities of body chemistry - I’ve got a particular kind of benign anemia that’s unique to Mediterranean populations, for instance.

            That is not what a race is. Race is a category with discrete borders, an arbitrary grouping of phenotypical traits into a box with hard borders. Various sub-populations exist with various different characteristics, but there is no discrete border where one stops or the other begins. The entire world is just a smeared gradient of genotypes, all from the same species without significant variations.

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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              2 years ago

              That is not what a race is.

              A race is simply a sub-species defined by common parentage. Borders are, at best, gently defined by geography. But two people can have common parentage spanning thousands of miles.

              Various sub-populations exist with various different characteristics, but there is no discrete border where one stops or the other begins.

              Because all humans (and prior to us, quite a few branches of proto-human) can and do fuck and procreate with abandon, the concept of race isn't discrete. You can have both African and American Native parents while living in Australia. Your race (s) have been functionally defined by parents, not geography.

              The entire world is just a smeared gradient of genotypes, all from the same species without significant variations.

              The advent of mass travel and migration over the last three centuries has made it one. But we also had people who were geographically isolated for dozens - even hundreds - of generations. The phenotypical markers are just the surface. There is significant familial variation thanks to both mutation and adaptation.

              The current global blending is the exception, not the rule.

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The "Internet" was not a real word 100 years ago. The Internet does not exist. This post is just a figment of your imagination.

  • solaranus
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