Nefarious Newt
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You know why White people have a hard time with race? It's fairly simple: WE INVENTED IT. We took a flawed understanding of Darwin, combined it with faulty 18th and 19th century concepts, and built a mechanism that told us, in no uncertain terms, that White skin leads to "superiority."
10:52 AM - Oct 22, 2023
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Nefarious Newt
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Phrenology. Facial construction. Eugenics. IQ tests. All of these things, along with a litany of others, were bolted together over centuries to create a comfortable carpet for White people to walk on. Every test, every theory pointed to the conclusion that we were just "the best."
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Nefarious Newt
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But you only create the tests and theories that support what you already "knew." There was no SCIENCE involved, except as a facade put in place to give it all a veneer of truth. You could create any experiment you wanted to prove your pet theory of White supremacy.
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Nefarious Newt
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And if, for some reason, your experiment led to a different conclusion, you simply CHANGED THE EXPERIMENT. Science is not the panacea for our troubles. Even now, as it disproves the things these prior "experiments" granted certitude, they, too, are fraught with flaws. There's no escaping it.
10:52 AM - Oct 22, 2023
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Nefarious Newt
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White folk, race will "go away" when we DECIDE it will. When we stop clinging to it as our personal yardstick. When we come to grips with the fact that every individual is unique and there are no patterns that make us better. Until then, non-White people will continue to make us eat our own words.
10:52 AM - Oct 22, 2023
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Bren
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In response to Nefarious Newt.
Well said
11:06 AM - Oct 22, 2023
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RobPalmerIRL (he/him/his)
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You are correct, and your points dovetail perfectly with mine yesterday on the scam of White Supremacy and White Christian Nationalism.
10:55 AM - Oct 22, 2023
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