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Re: Modern Anthropology and its Political Agendas

Subject: Re: Modern Anthropology and its Political Agendas
From: "Comm"
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:42:12 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.anthropology, alt.education, sci.anthropology.paleo, sci.edu
"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> "Comm" <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> I have no fear of racists under our current society.
>>
>>I do, sort of - unless they are open about it (that way, I know).  I've 
>>met
>>WAY TOO MANY racists - and the problem was that NOT ONE of them was of
>>European descent.  Interesting, that.
>
> Whereas I have pretty good reason to believe that almost everyone in
> this society is a racist.

If the definition you use is "they believe races do exist" then yes, 
everyone is.  I just got into a very interesting conversation with a very 
nice black father down the block - who was explaining to me why he can take 
the sun, being so evolved in a niche environment (Africa, his ancestors) for 
the heat.  Heh - that didn't explain why I, being from nomadic stock and 
with ancestors that had to adapt to VARIOUS environments (not just a niche 
environment) can also take the heat - and trust me, this is TROPICAL down 
here, despite being a free degrees north of actual tropical zone.  The 
foliage here IS tropical.  I also don't hardly have to squint from the sun. 
:)  I mean, the guy just brought the subject up - and bingo - he was talking 
about "his race."  But I'd never call this person a racist. He's not.  He's 
a very nice person - and a pretty strict father. he's not a racist because 
he sees "races" and notes the differences in them. He never once said that 
anyone was superior or inferior.  Generally yeah , blacks DO have better 
adaption to this climate here.  They really do.
>
>>>>Otherwise, you are a zealot
>>>
>>> If I am a zealot, then the person who keeps on responding to me is at
>>> least as much of a zealot.  The difference is that I only post that
>>> way in response to someone else; I do not initiate aggression.
>>
>>You did it to the poster DK.  He called you on it, too.
>
> You haven't been following the entire discussion.  There is more to it
> than this thread, which I happen to be reading in alt.education.  DK
> and I have been going at it equally hot and heavy in another part of
> the discussion which I am reading in misc.education (thread name there
> was originally "Why Are Asian People Good at Math?")

Hmm, interesting.  I was always good at math too - very good, without trying 
hard, especially geometry.  I figured I was good at it cuz I simply LIKED 
it.  I do know that many people are TERRIBLE at it.  Right, I never saw that 
thread.
>
>>Calling DK a racist is libel if he is not one.
>
> But he is one, under the non-PC actual denotation of the word in the
> dictionary that I have been using in this discussion, as I have
> explained previously numerous times.

But saying a group that is testably better at math is better at math is not 
racist, nor is saying that blacks are better adapted for this climate 
racist.   I'm not using a PC definition of race.  Better at SOMETHING, 
doesn't mean superior or inferior as PEOPLE.  Asking WHY they are better is 
not a racist question.  It's simply a question about why they ARE, testably, 
better.  Well, why are they?   Maybe they study more?  I don't actually know 
why.  I can't tell you today what the ethnic composition of my math classes 
were - I just didn't tend to notice stuff like that, back then - therefore, 
I can't remember.   Blacks themselves are shocked thru the roof when they 
hear another black person singing completely off key, tone deaf.  They are 
shocked.  Among themselves, they know what everyone else knows - MOST blacks 
have pretty good musical ears.  That's not racist, Bob.  It's beautiful. 
Maybe it's me - but I have always tended to notice the "WOW, that's AMAZING" 
factor when differences like this were pointed out.  I know this:  in the 
dead of night when everything is very hush and quiet, I can make a noise and 
an Asian across the street doesn't hear it.  Most whites do not hear it. 
Some do.  I can drop a piece of paper and a black person TURNS AROUND AND 
LOOKS.  I find that amazing.  Every single time, too.  Yeah, I used to try 
out dumb stuff like that years ago.  They have VERY good ears.  You know 
what?  I can hear it TOO.  I have heightened sense of hearing, taste and 
smell - especially smell.  A fireman wanted to hand me a medal due to that, 
once.  But there was no such medal.  I also see things in terms of SHAPES 
and have very high spacial intelligence.  Who is to say that doesn't have 
something to do with the way my recent and ancient ancestors evolved?  No 
one ever studied this stuff - and imo, it's VERY interesting.

I see WOW amazing, interesting - tell me more.  Meanwhile the pc tyrants are 
branding it all racism and stifling knowledge.  That's the way I see it all 
happening.  It sucks.  How come I'm so damned fair when not tan, like a 
Scandinavian person - but I don't burn and get SO tan that I get like a dark 
person from India (same tone of tan)?  How come?  How come people originally 
a lot darker than me burn from the sun?  How come?  I really would like to 
know because I'm CURIOUS - tho I will admit that such curiosities are purely 
dilettante, they are passing.  How the SG Atlantis team is gonna manage to 
get around the mess they just created is NOT a passing curiosity.   So 
that's how that goes.
>
> lojbab 



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