/lit/ - Literature

>>7253420
No anon, if you don't go burn down your state capitol right this very second you approve of everything your government does. Arguing with this makes you a namby-pamby fence-sitter who girls won't want to have sex with. You don't want to be a fence sitter, do you, anon?

>>7230714
IT IS TWO-THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE!

I MEAN, COME ON!

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>>7227950
Whether niggers are human.
If fags are cool or not.
Whether women are fully sentient beings.
The Jewish problem.

I mean, after two-thousand and fifteen years of AD time, it seems like we should have settled the above once and for all.

>>7226168
It is 2015 and we still have a holiday celebrating a genocidal white rapist. I mean, he was able bodied and straight to top it all off! It has been two millenia and fifteen years since the birth of Christ and we are still having a holiday for a baby-eating demon!

TWENTY-FIFTEEN PEOPLE
COME ON!

>>7221134
>why doesn't everybody think the way you do?
>maybe it's because I'm so obviously right!
>It's 2015, people.
The point is that it actually goes right along with the way most racists think things went down, that is that Europeans were exposed to an environment that prompted them to develop higher intelligence and social roles better-suited to what would become western civilization. Diamond reinforces this narrative but then just leaves off the bit about the populations adapting to their environments. Not a huge leap between Diamond's narrative and conventional racism.

>Africans have plenty to eat and very high barriers to long-distance trade
>Africans don't develop long distance trade and advanced agriculture
Diamond says that's the end of it, and racists say that perhaps Africans didn't develop certain aspects of intelligence because there was not selective pressure for the kinds of intelligence you need to get rich operating a trading economy.

>Europeans are exposed to scarcity and harsh weather but have lower barriers to long-distance travel
>Europeans develop long-distance trade and all that comes with it.
Diamond says that's the end of it, while racists posit that when people are exposed to scarcity and get to travel long ways to foreign lands that there will be selective pressure for the kind of intelligence that facilitates those things and that they will become more intelligent than populations not under that pressure.

I'm not saying the racists are right, but it is not a big leap from Diamond's narrative to their own. Acting like that one step is some earthshattering intellectual difference just makes you seem silly.

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>>7211193
>All this racism
IT IS THE YEAR 2015, PEOPLE, COME ON!

>>7201535
>It is 2015 and these people still want to be white!
>two thousand and fifteen, people!

>>7201174
>woah get a load of this goy!
>IT IS 2015 AND YOU'RE STILL QUESTIONING PROGRESS?!?!?!
>two
>thousand
>and
>fifteen
>Just go back to your hillbilly backwater, you racist. Smart people don't need you in the new America, right audience? You guys are so smart, give yourself a pat on the back.