You are scum. Now white, eastern european, mid 30s, men, are perfect and have never done anything wrong.
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You are scum. Now white, eastern european, mid 30s, men, are perfect and have never done anything wrong.
And we should also delete all threads/posts that accuse old white men being racists and bigots.
You ignore that the same things have been done by EVERY group of people since the beginning of humanity. Old White Men are not unique. They're human and exhibit all the positive and negative traits that ALL human groups do.
Your problem is that you subscribe to Hollywood depictions of peaceful non-White natives living in harmony with each other and the Earth without realizing that the depiction is a myth. Humans are a creature of war and that's what they've been doing - conquering and killing each other - from the beginning.
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http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...-native-americans-before-europeans-showed-up/
The approach of Thanksgiving, that quintessential American holiday, has me brooding over recent scientific portrayals of Native Americans as bellicose brutes. When I was in grade school, my classmates and I wore paper Indian headdresses and Pilgrim hats and reenacted the "first Thanksgiving," in which supposedly friendly Native Americans joined Pilgrims for a fall feast of turkey, venison, squash and corn. This episode seemed to support the view—often (apparently erroneously) attributed to the 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau—of Native Americans and other pre-state people as peaceful "noble savages".
As I've pointed out previously, prominent scientists now deride depictions of pre-state people as peaceful. "Contra leftist anthropologists who celebrate the noble savage," the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker wrote in 2007, "quantitative body counts—such as the proportion of prehistoric skeletons with ax marks and embedded arrowheads or the proportion of men in a contemporary foraging tribe who die at the hands of other men—suggest that pre-state societies were far more violent than our own." According to Pinker, the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes "got it right" when he called pre-state life a "war of all against all."
Pinker based his view on books such as War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Oxford University Press, 1996) by the anthropologist Lawrence Keeley of the University of Illinois, and Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage (Saint Martin's Press, 2003) by the archaeologist Steven LeBlanc of Harvard. "The dogs of war were seldom on a leash" in the pre-Colombian New World, Keeley wrote.
Popular culture has amplified these scientific claims. In the 2007 HBO docudrama Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Chief Sitting Bull complains to a U.S. Army colonel about whites' violent treatment of the Indians. The colonel retorts, "You were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped foot on this continent."
Native Americans definitely waged war long before Europeans showed up. The evidence is especially strong in the American Southwest, where archaeologists have found numerous skeletons with projectile points embedded in them and other marks of violence; war seems to have surged during periods of drought. But scientists such as Pinker, Keeley and LeBlanc have replaced the myth of the noble savage with the myth of the savage savage.
The approach of Thanksgiving, that quintessential American holiday, has me brooding over recent scientific portrayals of Native Americans as bellicose brutes. When I was in grade school, my classmates and I wore paper Indian headdresses and Pilgrim hats and reenacted the "first Thanksgiving," in which supposedly friendly Native Americans joined Pilgrims for a fall feast of turkey, venison, squash and corn. This episode seemed to support the view—often (apparently erroneously) attributed to the 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau—of Native Americans and other pre-state people as peaceful "noble savages".
As I've pointed out previously, prominent scientists now deride depictions of pre-state people as peaceful. "Contra leftist anthropologists who celebrate the noble savage," the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker wrote in 2007, "quantitative body counts—such as the proportion of prehistoric skeletons with ax marks and embedded arrowheads or the proportion of men in a contemporary foraging tribe who die at the hands of other men—suggest that pre-state societies were far more violent than our own." According to Pinker, the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes "got it right" when he called pre-state life a "war of all against all."
Pinker based his view on books such as War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage (Oxford University Press, 1996) by the anthropologist Lawrence Keeley of the University of Illinois, and Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage (Saint Martin's Press, 2003) by the archaeologist Steven LeBlanc of Harvard. "The dogs of war were seldom on a leash" in the pre-Colombian New World, Keeley wrote.
Popular culture has amplified these scientific claims. In the 2007 HBO docudrama Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Chief Sitting Bull complains to a U.S. Army colonel about whites' violent treatment of the Indians. The colonel retorts, "You were killing each other for hundreds of moons before the first white stepped foot on this continent."
Native Americans definitely waged war long before Europeans showed up. The evidence is especially strong in the American Southwest, where archaeologists have found numerous skeletons with projectile points embedded in them and other marks of violence; war seems to have surged during periods of drought. But scientists such as Pinker, Keeley and LeBlanc have replaced the myth of the noble savage with the myth of the savage savage.
OK, I agree, but some of them are soooo fucking grumpy and bitch and complain about everyone and everything that enough is enough. OK, we get it, you are old and white, you are not the center of attention, you life has drastically changed, this does not or should not give you an excuse to be an ass wipe and get away with it cause you are old and white, your body is failing, you pee your bed and your are on more medications then you can remember to take.
I don't mind old people, some are quite interesting and fun, although I do mind the ones with a chip on their shoulder and very bitter...
Terb is a perfect example of some of these types...
If anyone I think twizz is a dirty troll with a negative agenda. Skyrider is funny and sarcastic, he's making fun of twizz that always complains of old white men.
When ever the RACISTS here,...don't want to mention any names,...no need to,...accuses somebody of racism,... when ever Muslims are referred to negatively.
You mean those threads.
FAST
Sir, you are right on. It takes a higher level of intelligence to understand some of my posts. You have that higher level of intelligence.
Yes, the usual suspects on the board. Constantly accusing people of racism and bigotry.
And 1 in 9 Canadian soldiers died in world war 1.
And then there was the tragically wounded.
WTF.
There are many racist threads on terb lately regarding muslims. In all those threads no one has accused old white men of being racist/bigot, accusations of racism/bigot are levied against the individual and not towards a group.
Now personally I think skyrider is a bigot, but I do not know if he is old or if he is white or even a man. If he happens to be an old white man, then that is just a coincidence and it is not fair to accuse me of having anything against old white men. He could be a young black girl for all I care, I still think he/she is a bigot.
I've talked to Blacks, Asians, East Indians, Pakistanis, Muslims, Europeans, Jamaicans, "Trinis", Japanese, Phillipinos, Jews, Hispanics. You know what. After knowing them for not too long a period of time you find out that they're all pretty much bigoted against at least one other group of people in the world. The most racist societies in the world today are not in North America or Europe.
What I think is true is that people/society are most angered by racism when the source of the racism is white people. No one gives a fuck if Blacks are racist against Asians.
They also know that most whites can be guilt tripped about the past.
What I think is true is that people/society are most angered by racism when the source of the racism is white people. No one gives a fuck if Blacks are racist against Asians.
They also know that most whites can be guilt tripped about the past.
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