• potatoguy@potato-guy.space
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    1 month ago

    Not one race, nor any race is better, if you believe one race is above others, if you believe skin colour is predictive of anything, you are the inferior person over all others, because you are an idiot for believing bullshit. You’re not intelligent enough to get over propaganda.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Meh. Dad nailed it. “Son, we’re not the best race, we’re the most violent.”

    Been thinking on that for 30 years. Still rings true.

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      The lesson was supposed to be “Son, races aren’t actually a thing, they’re a categorical method of sorting people into groups based on variable forms of bigotry. Where one race begins and another ends is as arbitrary as the lines we draw in the sand.”

      Not turning the white supremacy around into some kind of self-hating racism. That makes about as much sense as the white supremacy. And progresses the human race about as far.

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        Denying diferencess actually regresses the human race. What should be thought is that personal and cultural differences have much bigger influence over behaviour then biological ones. And that humans have this thing called a brain, whos internal wiring can be changed to different levels of being an asshole.

        If you don’t accept the basic thing, you won’t understand the advanced one.

  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You’re half right. White people are not superior. HOWEVER… Your argument as to why is complete trash. The Mongol empire as impressive as it was didn’t touch SE Asia, India, most of Russia, the entire fucking continent of Africa, or anywhere not connected to Eurasia. Also it wasn’t the Mongols who burned the great library of Alexandria.

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        1 month ago

        They’re just saying that many other parts of the world weren’t scourged by Mongols so the theory that Europe rose to prominence because it was spared doesn’t really hold water.

        That’s if I understood them correctly.

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          1 month ago

          The post is a jab at the recent controversy on Sydney Sweeney ad for American Eagle jeans, claiming there is white supremacist undertone, not about being spared from the Mongol invasion itself is what lifts societies to prominence.

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            1 month ago

            You can’t really dismiss the main text of the post and claim the subtext makes it irrelevant.