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Fanboy, I may be the closest approximation to a friend you have on this site, but frankly... you need to get your head out of your ass. If you're going to play Neville Chamberlain with anti-science delusional hypocrites (and you can't deny those exist even if you think "fat acceptance" en...

Let me summarize my feelings on this larger topic in bullet points for maximum clarity: * No one should be bullied with provocative for not looking physically ideal, of assume fitting some ideal look is the only way to get ahead in life. This applies to both men and women. * Conversely, no one shoul...

@ Simon_Jester If you're trying to give me advice on me how to reason with them, I need to make it clear that I don't think they can be reasoned with. That's why I posted earlier that I regretted posting this in "Debating Help", because it seems to have given you the impression that I was ...

Upon second thought, I wonder if "Debating Help" was really the right place for this. I'm actually not asking for help with continuing the exchange, since they're not the kind of people whom I could reason with anyway. My intention was instead to discuss a recent conversation, with posts p...

I think that if you insult women who are fat while demanding acceptance for men who are fat, or vice versa, that is hypocritical. True, but this applies both ways. And I'm sure both sides would claim their double standard is satirizing the other's hypocrisy. I also think your joke was crass, becaus...

I used to be a longtime fan of P.Z. Myers's Pharyngula blog, and I still agree with much of what he has to say on science, religion, and politics. But lately I've grown very uncomfortable with his current entourage of regular commentators. Myers himself has been an unapologetic atheist and all-aroun...

I side with the view that race is a social construct, but the same could be said for most systems of categorization. No one denies that populations across the world look different, but the problem comes in when you try demarcating where one population ends and another begins. It's rather like trying...

I've been recently bitten by the following plot concept for a sci-fi/thriller-type story: The hero is the Vice President of the United States of America. While they're discussing business as usual, the President tells the VP that he wants to launch a genocidal invasion against some Third World coun...

Honestly I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time to argue over this subject. What are you all really arguing about any more? That the Ancient Egyptians were or were not of one general skin color? That African does not equal Black? That most Ancient Egyptians would be considered Bla...

so you're a progressive. Now, lets look at drug legislation. Should Cannabis be legalised? Should smoking in public be allowed? is ecstasy ok? should an individual have the right to do what they want to themselves (and other consenting adults) ? I don't think much about that particular issue, but y...

well, as a blanket term, progressive should indicate you support a tax regime where the rich pay a higher percentage of their income, and this money is used to support a welfare safety net of some sort, be it a national health service, disability benefits or job seekers allowance. If there had to b...

^ Honestly, while I'm definitely progressive on most social and cultural issues and hate the Republicans with a passion, I'm rather undecided on fiscal and federal-vs-private questions.

Akhlut put it best we're challenging you because you develop better through adversity, as long as you can accept criticism and challenges and not just shout "LALALA! CAN'T HEAR YOU!" and run off. Honestly, I don't know how to counter their points, and I've lost interest in this stupid arg...

You call yourself democracy fanboy and have written a manifesto, but politics isn't your passion? Quick! To the way back-pedalling machine! My interest in politics has fluctuated. Back when I wrote that, I was much more passionate about it than I am today. Right now I'm more into anthropology (and ...

To be honest, I just posted this to get a reaction out of people, but seeing that few people want to read through the whole thing, I guess it was worthless. In retrospect, what I did was probably trolling, so I apologize for that behavior and will leave this forum. Politics is not my greatest passio...

TimothyC wrote:Nevermind it is the capitalist who provides the facilities and materiel for the worker to produce the shirt would it? Facilitating the production of the shirt is the capitalist's work.

And how does he get the money to buy those facilities and materials? By exploiting other workers!

The Democratic Manifesto This is an articulation of my political views that I wrote around a year ago. It was originally intended to be a book but later proved too short. It's still a lengthy read by article standards, with 37 pages and 8,000+ words, so I'll briefly summarize what I say in my Manif...

You're welcome. I may agree with Big Triece that most ancient Egyptians were dark-skinned Africans related to people whom we call "black", but I get the impression that he (she?) insists on labeling the Egyptians "black" because he wants to feel a personal connection to Egypt. M...

I'm not sure that anyone here is claiming that there was significant influx from Southwest Asia, though. Maybe not a significant influx, but I thought some people here were saying that if southern Egyptians were admixed with upriver Nubians, it would only be fair to suppose that northern Egyptians ...

BTW, with regards to the earlier argument about whether northern Egyptians were ever significantly admixed with Southwest Asians: http://africanamericanculturalcenterpalmcoast.org/historyafrican/limbproportionsGeneticComponent2.jpg ^ If ancient Lower Egyptians had tropical, African-style limb propor...

And you seem insistent on equating "tropical" with "black", as if that were self-evident. Why do you think tropical Africans have dark skin in the first place if it isn't an adaptation to living in a tropical latitude that receives high UV radiation? The significance of ancient ...

A genomics company called DNATribes has recently analyzed the published genomes of King Tut's family and reported a genetic affinity with sub-Saharan Africans, especially Southern and Great Lakes Africans . Results indicated the autosomal STR profiles of the Amarna period mummies were most frequent ...

I concur with BigTriece and PharaohMentuhotep that the majority of the ancient Egyptians were dark-skinned, tropically adapted African people who were related to other Africans, particularly Northeast Africans whom most Americans do call "black", but frankly traditional color labels such a...

Linguistics helps us here--the Afro-Asiatic languages are divided into six language families and they include the semitic branch, the berber, and the Egyptian, but not any sub-Saharan peoples. This is incorrect. Lots of dark-skinned African ethnic groups speak Afrasan languages. In fact pretty much...