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WND ‘Comedienne’ Warns of ‘Liberal’-Infested Ghettos
In recent weeks, a Microsoft cell phone app that helps people use GPS to avoid high-crime areas has prompted a nationwide discussion about race, class and prejudice.
Some praise the “avoid the ghetto app,” as the product has been unofficially dubbed, as a handy safety measure. Others worry it will reinforce false assumptions about race and violent crime. “In much of dominant American culture, there’s an assumption that criminality and being poor and not white go hand in hand,” Sarah Chinn, author of Technology and the Logic of American Racism, told National Public Radio on Jan. 25.
D.J. Dolce discussed the app on today’s installation of Illuminati Pictures’ “comedy” show “News! News!,” a regular feature on Joseph Farah’s far-right online publication WorldNetDaily.
“I don’t know why you need a GPS app for that; just avoid the blue areas on a political district map,” she said. “Everybody knows that police and military live in the red section; and the blue section is crime.”
Right. People who live in ghettos are liberals, and liberals are criminals. And we all know who lives in ghettos.
Sigh. It seems like only yesterday that we blogged about “Gates of Hell,” a propaganda piece supporting the utterly false notion that abortion is a vicious plot to destroy black America, released by Illuminati Pictures in honor of Black History Month.
It seems like only yesterday because it was only yesterday. But as a wise man once said, the past is a foreign country. Yesterday’s gone. The times, they have a-changed, and Illuminati Pictures has changed with them.
Changed back, that is. Illuminati Pictures is an ultraconservative outfit that specializes in agitprop targeting the “under-40 demographic.” Its founder is wedding videographer-turned-conservative firebrand Jason “Molotov” Mitchell, who made a name for himself in 2008 with his “Video Portrait of Barack Hussein Obama,” an online offering that accused then-candidate Obama of being a racist, Marxist and anti-Semite “discipled” in “quasi-Christianity,” and asked “[W]hen we are at war with Islam can Americans elect a man with not one, not two, but three Islamic names?”
Mitchell, who is married to Dolce, is a birther who supported a draconian Ugandan bill that would have made homosexuality a capital offense and called the National Council of La Raza “the Tan Klan.”
It’s easy to see why Mitchell and Dolce fell for each other. In 2010, the “comedienne” declared that those who believe LGBT people should be able to adopt or even babysit are “walking proof that homosexuality is a mental disorder.” In a “comedic” anti-gay rant delivered the next year, she endorsed the repulsive and thoroughly disproven theory that gays were responsible for the Holocaust. “First you let them do their own thing in a corner – ‘Ah, they’ll be OK.’ Next thing you know, they’re marching in the streets. You keep looking the other way, and then one day, boom, they throw you in an oven.”
Referring to a book by the gay-basher Scott Lively, which lays out in detail the absurd gays-as-Nazis notion, she continued, “You can ‘ooh’ all you want, but you’ve obviously not read The Pink Swastika.”
on January 31st, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Wow. I am honestly at a loss for words here. And that doesn’t happen very often…
on January 31st, 2012 at 6:42 pm
I guess you can say that fear mongering works on the feeble minds: generally the gullible wing-nuts who buy into that crap. That seems to be case in this latest tabloid hogwash. Crimes in rural areas USA, are just as common. But the gist is that it is rarely reported. Such crimes in the isolated, less populated areas, primarily inhibited by whites. The top 5 crimes in rural areas include:
The # 1 crime: Domestic Violence
2.) DUI
3.) Drug Possession(mainly crystal meth)
4.) Incestuous and/or Statutory Rape, Sexual Assaults (usually between family members or someone who is a friend of the family etc)
5.) Pedophilia
Such crimes in rural areas are certainly no secret to those who had lived in these places.
on January 31st, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Hey, if it keeps the WNs out of my neighbourhood then I’m OK with it.
on February 1st, 2012 at 9:17 am
@Gregory,
Lol……..
on February 1st, 2012 at 10:24 am
More useful might be an app mapping areas with high rates of DWB stops.
on February 1st, 2012 at 12:32 pm
I don’t want to live in an America that has been transformed into a 3rd world hell hole like Haiti or Brazil. I don’t want to be surrounded by Blacks and Hispanics. I want to live in a society that looks like a Normal Rockwell Painting. A White society.
I’m not buying into this. I’m not sold on the idea that it will be ‘good’ for America to become majority non-White.
It’s very simple and let me explain. You people are trying to sell me on the idea that living in a minority White country will be a wonderful thing. I’m not buying it. It’s not what I want. Period.
Imagine you decide to be a new car. Let’s say a brand new Cadillac with all the bells and whistles. But instead the salesman tries to bait you into buying an old beat up 1978 Chevy Nova. What would you say? Simple. You tell the salesman, “That’s not what I want”. In that same way, you are trying to sell me on the idea that I must want to live in a majority non-White society. It’s not what I want
on February 1st, 2012 at 12:51 pm
You people seem to think that calling someone a “racist” is the penultimate charge and is the single shout that shuts off debate and nothing else matters. There are other things more important. Our people have a right to exist. I want to see out people prosper. The survival of the White race is the most important thing to me. What I care about is infinitely more important than worrying about somebody calling me a name.
on February 1st, 2012 at 12:59 pm
Oh well isn’t this lovely? Too bad they won’t make an app for what politicians or Wall Street/Big Corporate cronies we should avoid giving authority over the world’s most powerful economy and the rest of our well-being in America. We may just not have another ‘Republican’ president again if we were to make that, yet another positive proof of the ‘elite liberul media’, since its detractors can never seem to specify real-world or rational examples…
on February 1st, 2012 at 1:01 pm
^For those of us who think Evolution isn’t real, at least posts speaking of ‘people’ like this does remind us that, at least at the cognitive level, many Earthlings are indeed receeding backwards to I.Q. levels of Monkeys, Amoebas, and probably much further than we can ever hope to see…
on February 1st, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Jason,
A couple thoughts. First, Brazil is the economic and industrial powerhouse of South America. Yes, there are parts of the country with unimaginable destitution, but as a country, they are incredibly powerful.
Second, there’s no such thing as the so-called ‘White Race.’ You have been asked time and time again to produce evidence to the contrary. Yet you steadfastedly refuse.
As far as I can recall, I have avoided insulting you or calling you names. But that policy hasn’t worked. So I’m simply going to call you the ignorant degenerate that you are.
If you hate the SPLC so much, why do you keep coming back? You aren’t funny, you never bring up anything cognizant, and you never win any debates. The joke’s over. You’re not funny anymore.
on February 1st, 2012 at 4:17 pm
OK. I can’t let this go.
“I want to live in a society that looks like a Norma[n] Rockwell Painting. A White society. ”
Is the painting you want to live in perhaps the one titled “Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi)”?
You see, Rockwell was one of _us_, not one of you. Look up “The problem we all live with” and “New kids in the neighborhood”. You’ll have to repudiate your hero. He was a liberal…
on February 1st, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Aron said: ” …. there is no such thing as the White race”
My Response: Read “Race, Evolution, and Behavior” by J. Philippe Rushton. Full Professor at University of Western Ontario. There are many facts that will amaze you in this book.
Black babies have a different gestation period than White babies. Did you know that? The brains of Blacks are smaller than the brains of Whites. Blacks have smaller frontal lobes (the seat of reason). The dentition, the teeth, of Blacks is different than the dentition of whites. Black babies mature at a faster rate than White babies. They can lift their head and walk at an earlier age. Black girls experience their first menstruation at an earlier age than White girls. Did you know that? The occurrence of 3rd molars, and even 4th and 5th molars is not uncommon in Blacks. Archeologists, when studying primitive hominids always study the teeth first and foremost. .Blacks have prognathous jaws. Whites do not. Similar to the great Apes. There is a boney structure in the mandible of Blacks, called the Simian shelf, which occurs only in the great Apes, that does not exist in the mandibles of Whites. There are a myriad of differences between Blacks and Whites. From sweat glands to fingerprint patterns. Your problem is you are uneducated. You need to read some books.
You may buy the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Race-Evo.....038;sr=8-1
on February 1st, 2012 at 6:24 pm
Jason Smith wants to live in a “Normal” Rockwell painting? One person can’t come up with all this ridiculosity. Jason Smith, PROVE you are not a committee.
on February 1st, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Dan Zabetakis said,
on February 1st, 2012 at 4:17 pm
OK. I can’t let this go.
“I want to live in a society that looks like a Norma[n] Rockwell Painting. A White society. ”
Is the painting you want to live in perhaps the one titled “Southern Justice (Murder in Mississippi)”?
You see, Rockwell was one of _us_, not one of you. Look up “The problem we all live with” and “New kids in the neighborhood”. You’ll have to repudiate your hero. He was a liberal…
-Thank you so much Dan; that was a point only the most crackpot crazy of the political fringe will atempt to refute; though given Jason’s clear lack of dictation skills and history of unhinged, sociopathic tendencies in this otherwise forward-thinking forum, he’ll attempt to run head through the cemented wall of reason anyway (to the rest of delig—er, despair!)
on February 1st, 2012 at 10:12 pm
“Our people have a right to exist.”
And who do you think “your people” are?
on February 1st, 2012 at 11:39 pm
““I want to live in a society that looks like a Norma[n] Rockwell Painting. A White society. ”
The only painting you’re living in is Guernica,
on February 2nd, 2012 at 9:00 am
Rushton’s a crackpot. Ooh! He’s a full professor! Gimme a break. He only publishes that drivel because he has tenure.
And you honestly believe black babies have different gestational periods than white babies? You really are deranged…
on February 2nd, 2012 at 9:04 am
“I don’t want to live in an America that has been transformed into a 3rd world hell hole like Haiti or Brazil. I don’t want to be surrounded by Blacks and Hispanics. I want to live in a society that looks like a Normal Rockwell Painting. A White society.” – Jason Smith
As others have mentioned, Brazil is a rising power in South America. It has lots of economic clout. And as for a “white society,” there’s no such thing because “white” is a social construct that has no real meaning. And Norman Rockwell was a liberal. One of his iconic paintings was a black girl walking to school among people yelling racial slurs at her. It was his way of supporting desegeregation.
“I’m not buying into this. I’m not sold on the idea that it will be ‘good’ for America to become majority non-White.
It’s very simple and let me explain. You people are trying to sell me on the idea that living in a minority White country will be a wonderful thing. I’m not buying it. It’s not what I want. Period.” – Jason Smith
I personally don’t give a damn about what you want. You’re going to have to commit mass murder, but the U.S. military will be on your ass immediately. They don’t play with militia folks.
“Imagine you decide to be a new car. Let’s say a brand new Cadillac with all the bells and whistles. But instead the salesman tries to bait you into buying an old beat up 1978 Chevy Nova. What would you say? Simple. You tell the salesman, “That’s not what I want”. In that same way, you are trying to sell me on the idea that I must want to live in a majority non-White society. It’s not what I want.” – Jason Smith
That’s a bad analogy. Besides, there are people who buy old cars and modify them with new paint and engines. Again, bad analogy.
“You people seem to think that calling someone a “racist” is the penultimate charge and is the single shout that shuts off debate and nothing else matters. There are other things more important. Our people have a right to exist. I want to see out people prosper. The survival of the White race is the most important thing to me. What I care about is infinitely more important than worrying about somebody calling me a name.” – Jason Smith
Who are your people? Europeans are not your people. They have their own distinct and individual cultures and heritages. Do you fight bulls like the Spaniards? Do you eat borscht like the Ukrainians? Do you sing “Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral” like the Irish? Do you celebrate Oktoberfest like the Germans? If not, then how can they your people? Is it because of skin tone? If that was the case, then Europeans would not have gone to war against each other and have hate for each other like the Polish and the Russians have bad blood between each other.
on February 2nd, 2012 at 9:10 am
That Norman Rockwell painting is called “The Problem We All Live With.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T....._Live_With
on February 2nd, 2012 at 9:44 am
Aron, not going to comment on Dr. Rushton, not familiar enough with his work or research to evaluate it but within the field of Anthropology and psychological measurement of personality characteristics of different human groupings there is much controversial research that at times becomes very controversial, especially when it goes against our pre-existing notions of how and why humans behave the way they do.
In the field of anthropology, the debate became so acrimonius that in most university departments we have Cultural and Physical schools separated, the same with the exploding field of genetic variation. I can tell you that many academics don’t publish or write about research that goes against the current zeitgeist for fear of censure or loss of position. But it in no way makes the research or findings less true, just unpalatable to a pluralist, neo-liberal world-view and ideology.
Mathematically measureable differences between groups can in GENERAL categorize broad physical characteristics that explain in a macro way the differences between groups, but does not explain differences in individuals within that group. So one can measure IQ or impulsivity in a broad group, and have anomalies on both ends of the spectrum.
Peer review of research is the most reliable way to test any research hypothesis. Dr. Rushton would not likely retain his position (esp in Canada) if he was truly a crackpot, he’d be quickly marginalized and ignored (think David Irving, holocaust denier and historian)
on February 2nd, 2012 at 10:27 am
Deep Ecology,
Rushton HAS been marginalized a la Irving. He has an obsession with race, very much in line with MacDonald.
Believe me, as an academic myself, I understand the importance of peer review. But just as tenure exists to prevent interference with one’s research into potentially acrimonious subjects, that does not protect you from marginalization by one’s peers.
(Sadly, I haven’t the time at the moment to engage in a lengthy debate. But I eagerly await your response.)
PS I heartily recommend reading the SPLC’s Intel Report entry on Dr Rushton. You may find it enlightening.
on February 2nd, 2012 at 11:23 am
Jason,
“Penultimate” means next-to-last.
“It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
on February 2nd, 2012 at 11:51 am
Some of you dumbasses need to learn that there is NO “white” race. Whites are part of the Caucasian race – which has many colors!
on February 2nd, 2012 at 12:08 pm
I have a rental house in the ghetto, I enjoy collectiing my rent checks! God bless and the nation that lets all choose where we live.
on February 2nd, 2012 at 12:57 pm
Jason Smith said,
on February 1st, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Aron said: ” …. there is no such thing as the White race”
My Response: Read “Race, Evolution, and Behavior” by J. Philippe Rushton. Full Professor at University of Western Ontario. There are many facts that will amaze you in this book.
ITHINK’s response: yeah, I found that book a lot more interesting and surprising in its original form, I believe it was called “Mein Kampf” and was under some maniacal ghost writer named ‘Adolf Hitler’. He apparently thought his writing to be so profoundly realistic that he actually ended up committing suicide as he couldn’t sustain the crippling authority and supremacism of his own ‘final solutions’. ‘Twas a sad day in history (for the Pat Buchanans & David Dukes of the world, anyway)…
on February 2nd, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Yes, there are physiological differences between various groups (with of course considerable overlap at the boundaries), just as there between the sexes. That is how a forensic anthropologist is able to assess, to a fair degree of accuracy, the group to which an unidentified body belongs. Two points: 1) physiological differences between human beings are entirely irrelevant to questions of intelligence, character or culture; 2) the human race in fact originated in Africa (more specificlaly Kenya). So Jason, one might say that it’s the black “race” which is the original and the present-day Caucasian “race” which is deviant. One more question: which one has caused more damage, death and suffering in the course of history? Think about it.
on February 2nd, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Gee, and all this time I thought I was human! My daughter was born at nine months’ gestation, but then she’s half white, so I guess she’s only half subhuman . . .
on February 2nd, 2012 at 1:08 pm
“Your problem is you are uneducated. You need to read some books”. (Jason Smith)
-It seems your taking our earlier advice about speaking with that all-knowing man in the mirror, Jason! Good for you, but make sure to read more books by people that aren’t telling you either what you already know or choosed to be biased about (regardless of the greater ‘Truth’). Nobody ever won a Nobel Prize for reciting what 2+2 equals…
on February 2nd, 2012 at 1:10 pm
CM: Yes. ‘Penultimate’ is how I characterize the next-to-last attack by a Liberal as they lead up to trying to get you fired from your job. Shouting “racist!” as a pejorative doesn’t work on me. You better come up with something else.
on February 2nd, 2012 at 1:17 pm
God help us to see that we really are still living way in the past. These comments written to villianize a group of human beings because of a pigment problem is why there is so much hate in the world. Hate distroys man’s souls and has no place in our world. Wars have been started with less hate than this. When will we ever learn.
on February 2nd, 2012 at 2:03 pm
“CM: Yes. ‘Penultimate’ is how I characterize the next-to-last attack by a Liberal as they lead up to trying to get you fired from your job.”
Did someone try to get you fired from your job for being racist? That must have sucked for you. Think about how much it sucks for black and Latino applicants who get rejected based on racial grounds alone. There’s plenty of evidence to show this happens on a large scale.
” Shouting “racist!” as a pejorative doesn’t work on me. You better come up with something else.”
Ok, how about ignorant? Or do you still entertain the delusion that we can’t tell?
on February 3rd, 2012 at 12:16 am
I prefer the world of Saturday Evening Post covers by JC Leyendecker, whose career was earlier than Norman Rockwell’s (but may have overlapped slightly).He is in Who’s Who in Gay America, and lived with his lover Charles Beach intil he died.
on February 3rd, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Jason:
I want to live in a society that looks like a Normal Rockwell Painting. A White society.
Sounds like you better emigrate to Tristan da Cunha. ‘Cause you’re not gonna get what you want here, thank heavens.
on February 3rd, 2012 at 2:42 pm
BTW, Jason…you may be interested in this letter from Norman Rockwell to the NAACP.
“Your problem is you are uneducated. You need to read some books”
“But not just any books. The books have to be by J. Philippe Rushton and you have to ignore all the evidence that reveals them as racialist pseudoscience. Once you do this, you’ll be smart and happy, like me!”
on February 3rd, 2012 at 7:00 pm
So you admit there are physiological differences between the races. A Forensic anthropologist can measure scull shapes for example and identify the race of an individual. The testimony of a Forensic anthropologist is admissible in a court of law. (e.g. when the police find human remains and they must be identified). This means courts acknowledge the reality of race. Race is not just a ‘social construct’.
on February 3rd, 2012 at 11:34 pm
Hey Jason,
I inherited a library of over 3,000 books. I’m not lacking for reading. You’re simply lacking for brains.
on February 3rd, 2012 at 11:45 pm
“So you admit there are physiological differences between the races.”
Tell us who “the races” are. Tread lightly.
Of course geographically speaking there are physiological differences between groups of people, but this is not the same as saying that there are supra-national groups called “races.” If you walked from Kenya all the way to Sweden, you would find a sort of gradation among the people you would see, from Sub-Saharan African(BTW, Africans are extremely diverse on a genetic level), to the more Semitic-looking Somalis, to the Arabs and Turks, then Albanians, Serbs, Croats, and finally ending with the Nordic Norwegians and Danes.
Secondly,the genetic traits which give us these physiological attributes have nothing to do with brain capacity, intelligence, talent, behavior, and so on.
on February 3rd, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Differences are actually a good thing, unless people use them to excuse acting stupid.
on February 4th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
The issue of human biological determinism (HBD), genetic determinism and environmental influences is one of the most contentious and acrimonious debates amongs anthropologists and geneticists.
Amongst the general population, this debate assumes ideological versus empirical dimensions, becomes a shouting contest in a room full of deaf people and is just about impossible to talk about unless it is in a closed, private forum of intellectuals who devote their lives to researching both schools of thought.
It is impossible for the pluralist neo liberal to accept HBD, just as it is equally impossible for xenophobic nativists to accept anything else. The science is ignored, inconvenient truths are ignored, and the opposing camps engage in a cold war of sorts that is more about eventual victory than truth.
I am neither a scientist, anthropologist or geneticist. But I have been privileged to stand in and interview many in both schools. The science is on the side of HBD, but the debate within that school is degree of effect and amelioration of environmental influences on gene activation and expression.
Amongst the shouting, what is forgotten is that perception of reality counts for a lot in human group behavior. If you BELIEVE race exists, it does, and no amount of hand wringing on the part of those that deny its existence or importance in determining human behavior will alter that.
on February 4th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Jason comes in here trolling, and usually finishes up whining.
Ooh, blacks are inferior because they have different mandibles and menstruation times. We should segregate our society based on when girls have that time of the mont for the first time.
Calling Jason a “racist” does’t offend him, because he is proud to be one. He’s proud to show us how narrow his education and study is.
Would he be offended if I call him what he is, a bloody fool, and a Holocaust denier, who lives in a world of fear and anger, like most WNs.
Also, Jason, your other analogies don’t fit:
Car sales: If a car dealer tries the ol’ bait and switch on you, you can always find another car dealer. Unless you develop space travel, you’re stuck with living on one planet with all of its people.
Norman Rockwell: He supported diversity in his “Four Freedoms” painting series and the Allied cause in many others, which liberated the concentration camps and ended the Holocaust you deny. So for you to wnat your life like Normal Rockwell envisioned it, you have to support the values of the Allies in liberating Europe and ending the Holocaust, which are diametrically opposed to the neo-Nazi position that the Holocaust never happened.
Jason, you come here and troll, amuse us all, and get smacked down, to the point that you have to use silly arguments and re-typed obscenities. Fail.
Why are you so fearful of blacks and Latinos? The vast majority of America’s white population lives, works, and plays in close proximity to them in peace and quiet.
If life is too scary for you, comedian Denis Leary has a simple answer, that I quote, “Life is hard. Get a helmet.” Deal with it. You’ll find that the differences between blacks and whites, at the core, are pretty superficial.
You really have read too much American Renaissance website. I don’t know how you got into the roach motel of White Nationalism, but you won’t create your white utopia — particularly by coming here — but you may get chewed up and destroyed by it.
on February 5th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Jason,
Please see If race isn’t biological, how do forensics investigators determine a person’s race using just their bones or a fragment of their DNA?
None of this will matter to you, of course. Rushton said it, you believe it, that settles it. Right?
on February 6th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
I’ve been a long time reader of the comments at the SLPC, and I feel the need to chime in and add to the chorus of rebuttals to Jason Smith and his white nationalist friends.
At the core, I think the sort of racism exhibited by Jason, and in fact, racists of all sorts, is rooted entirely in a lack of empathy.
Jason Smith cannot imagine having been born black. His whiteness is so much a part of his identity, that it is simply impossible for him to consider a world where he did not win the genetic lottery and have the good luck to have been born the ‘correct’ race.
In a racist’s world, people are defined entirely by their genetics; there is no role for culture, sociology, and many other things to make a mark on their behavior. And furthermore, all undesirable social traits are mysteriously connected with skin color. For Jason, whites are simply genetically superior to blacks in all ways, it seems.
Now, I am willing to grant Jason, for the sake of argument, that there are certain physiological differences between different populations of humans. However, that does not make his racism any more intellectually defensible, even if that is true. Quite simply, all humans, regardless of their genetic advantages, disadvantages, and neutral genetic traits deserve respect, dignity, liberty, and equality of opportunity. This is the basic tenet of the hated anti-racist liberal that Jason so demonizes. We do not believe that someone who happens to be born white is inherently any better than someone who happens to be born black.
And that is exactly the thesis that the racist denies. But just how far are people like Jason committed to this? After all, if we’re going to pick out genetic features like skin color as undesirable, why not other things? Should we begin to discriminate against people with perceived genetic disadvantages in general? Are women inferior to men, too, Jason? Is Stephen Hawking less of a person because of his genetic condition?
Quite simply, all of these things, race, gender, healthiness, resistance or susceptibility to various diseases, healthiness or disability, are all genetic accidents. Just because someone came out on top in the genetic lottery does not entitle them to preferential treatment in every facet of life. This is why racism, sexism, and all forms of prejudice are so deeply offensive to so many people.
Let me close on this note. Jason, it’s perfectly okay if you dislike many aspects of the black subculture in America. It’s also perfectly fine if you think that some black people commit crimes and are overall bad people. What’s not okay is for you to believe that black people are intrinsically inferior to white people, and not deserving of the same consideration and equality as human beings, just because of the genetic hand they were dealt when they were born. It’s not okay for you to judge one person by the acts of another, when the only connection between the two is the color of their skin. That is the line. What we ‘evil’ liberals want is a society in which everyone is judged as an individual, rather than based on their genetics, or their parentage, or whatever other irrelevant factor.
on February 6th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Zarron, that was some brilliant analysis. I very much hope to see you comment more often :)
on February 6th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Zarron, that was a terrific essay, and I hope you come back and give us more.
Jason Smith, are you listening?
on February 6th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
Say, Zarron, is it okay if I copy your essay and use it the next time Jason Smith spouts some nonsense? That’s the best smackdown I’ve seen of that Holocaust denier yet.
on February 7th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Zarron, your comment is good. Deep Ecology, if you believe in the idea of race, why don’t you provide examples? You’re not a scientist or an anthroplogist, but you believe it exists. Prove it.
on February 7th, 2012 at 11:19 am
Thank you for your kind words, everyone.
Kiwiwriter, you are welcome to copy my comment, link to it, whatever you like.
on February 7th, 2012 at 2:38 pm
ADM, its not important whether I believe in the concept, what is important is the majority of people outside of Western countries believe in the concept, absent of any scientific proof of its existence, and act on it.
My speciality is not physical anthropology or genetics. I am a cultural geographer and focus my research on the evolution of the nation-state, geo-strategy, migration and ethnic conflict.
From the “soft science” side, the idea of racial differences is profound. Just try and tell a Croatian and Serbian that they have more in common than the differences that divide them. The former country of Sudan is another example of where race (as perceived by the participants) and religion caused a nation-state to disintegrate.
I could offer no compelling scientific evidence for race, nor would I be qualified to do so. However, in my studies and travels, the IDEA of racial and ethnic differences is compelling among most of the worlds population and that idea drives behavior.
In conclusion, whether I “believe” or not is irrelevant. People act as if its true and base their actions on the perception that race and ethnicity is real, scientific validation notwithstanding.
on February 7th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Oh, I know there are ethnic differences among various populations. As you said, Croatians and Serbians don’t see each other as brothers and sisters. Neither do the Polish and the Russians or the English and the French or the Yoruba and the Hausa in Nigeria. In fact, there’s a big divide between Nigerian Muslims and Christians due to an Islamist terrorist group called Boko Haram killing anybody that refuses to be a Muslim. No argument there.
on February 9th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Jason, with all due respect….there is one race. The human race. The color of skin, gender, sexual orientation, rwligion do not define the quality of the heart and soul. If we look beyond surface qualities to insure our brothers and _sisters in this world are uplifted….it benefits all of us.
on February 26th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Jason, if your not happy here in this country then maybe you should just leave. Go back to the country of your ancestors where you’ll feel more comfortable and get to express your false sense of superiority.