Mitchell Heisman on June 13, 2012 at 5:42 PM

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Nice fuzzy thinking there, dude. No at all credible to anyone but yourself … but I am sure THAT won’t deter you.

I have noticed you are DODGING the Roman slaves problem and the request for citations on genetics influencing culture.

Why am i not surpised?

Culture is in part a reflection of genetic differences between populations.

Mitchell Heisman on June 13, 2012 at 5:34 PM

Yo! Einstein!

How about citing some references to support THAT statement?

No?

Got nothing?

Cultural factors are obviously important too, PolAgnostic, but so are genetics.

Culture is in part a reflection of genetic differences between populations.

Mitchell Heisman on June 13, 2012 at 5:34 PM

Is that your selective response to the Romans slaves?

Cultural factors?

Seriously?

Culture is in part a reflection of genetic differences between populations.

PolAgnostic, pray tell, what is your theory — your non-racial theory — why one race votes 95% of the way for a given party?

And why before they voted as a racial block for this party, they voted as a racial block for another party?

Give me your non-race theory for this, please.

Mitchell Heisman on June 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM

Let’s give you an easy one.

Slaves under the Roman Empire. Anyone of any race could be a slave. Just as anyone of any race could be a Roman citizen. Being a slave or even a subject people in the Roman Empire really sucked.

If the Romans felt you needed motivation, they would slaughter EVERYBODY so there wouldn’t be an fuzzy interpretation of the message they were trying to send.

Over 500 years, they did this repeatedly … and repeatedly the slaves would rise up en masse and revolt – despite the horrific consequences.

It turns out (pay attention now) treating any group of individuals as a focused target of oppression increases their self identification as a group that will behave well past expected norms of participation – even after they have been relieved of the oppression.

You toddle off and think about it.

Are YOU under the impression you can post ANYTHING you want and NOT get hit by the ban hammer?

Because just for you and your ‘special’ thoughts, I am going to flag your posts on this thread to the HA staff for consideration. Feel ‘special’ because you are the first commenter I have ever felt motivated to take this action.

PolAgnostic on June 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM

If you think these posts are bad you should see the posts his sock puppet “Random” makes in porn related threads.

I am a truth-seeker, PolAgnostic. You are not. It’s cool.

I would love to live in a world where biology had not so radically distributed traits — but I don’t live in this world.

Unequal distribution of pretty much everything is the norm.

And it isn’t limited to individuals. There is tons of evidence that there are differences between racial groups.

Do you think the rules of evolution, niche adaptation, genetic drift, natural selection, etc., don’t apply to humans?

Mitchell Heisman on June 13, 2012 at 5:09 PM

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I think your knowledge of genetics is focused on distorted factoids selected to fit your ideology.

Darwinian evolution applies regardless of racial groups and DOES NOT support radically distributed traits between racial groups.

Let’s avoid topics you don’t understand and go back to my original questions about the lyrics?

Races exist, PolAgnostic. Or sub-species, or population groups, or however you want to taxonomically address it.

And they are different.

Mitchell Heisman on June 13, 2012 at 5:05 PM

Racists and racism exist too.

I’d say, “Tell me if you feel a breeze.”

But in your case, silence will be golden.

Also, are you under the impression slave traders were scouring remote regions of Africa far and wide for ethnically diverse slaves, or mostly taking slaves from the coastal regions?

Mitchell Heisman on June 13, 2012 at 4:58 PM

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Are YOU under the impression you can post ANYTHING you want and NOT get hit by the ban hammer?

Because just for you and your ‘special’ thoughts, I am going to flag your posts on this thread to the HA staff for consideration. Feel ‘special’ because you are the first commenter I have ever felt motivated to take this action.

The average voter may not think too long and hard about issues, but their brains are still processing data and input, and people do so with differing abilities.

Mitchell Heisman on June 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM

Thank you demonstrating the point for the far left side of the normal distribution curve!

I’ll bet you know all the lyrics of “Springtime for Hitler & Germany” though …