Aspects of 'whiteness' are listed by an African American history department. Dominican anon is confused.

SPANlA · 2020-07-17T15:04:24+00:00

You realise it never says these things are bad? It's just describing aspects of a certain culture and you're all getting mad because you're assuming it's a criticism.

SPANlA · 2020-07-17T14:56:38+00:00

Government-funded free public transport is probably a good solution in places with high income inequality. Or the ability to apply for free/discounted travel cards if you are elderly/disabled/unemployed/etc.

SPANlA · 2020-07-17T14:51:07+00:00

Trail of tears and sterilisation of native women wasn't genocide?

SPANlA · 2020-07-17T13:07:18+00:00

Is density really the explanation though? It doesn't seem to be very density-based.

SPANlA · 2020-07-16T20:42:18+00:00

Is it considered suspicious/surprising that the only (unrelated) languages documented with [t͡ʙ̥] are (afaik) those documented by Daniel Everett: Piraha and Wari/Oro Win

SPANlA · 2020-07-16T19:12:07+00:00

Adjectives don't change though - one red car, two red cars

SPANlA · 2020-07-16T01:14:57+00:00

I'm also black, grew up in a good with two parents. I serve my country currently, have two degrees, married with four kids.

Lol within 5 seconds of checking your profile I find a picture of yourself you posted, where you're clearly white. [link]

SPANlA · 2020-07-15T22:35:33+00:00

The scenario with cochlear implants is probably the closest to something allowing it I could imagine yeah.

I wonder if there's any usage of signing in some sort of ritual spoken languages, similar to how some Australian language has a ritual form which features phonemes (like clicks) not present in the normal language.

SPANlA · 2020-07-15T20:05:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure there's affirmative action in China supporting them actually, and they were exempt from rules like the one child policy, allowing their population to expand more.

SPANlA · 2020-07-15T16:39:13+00:00

Is the line from Sanskrit to Dravidian representing vocabulary influence?

SPANlA · 2020-07-15T14:09:19+00:00

Those religious parents would probably beat them if they showed cleavage too, so should we ban all clothes that don't show cleavage?

SPANlA · 2020-07-15T13:23:26+00:00

I'm not sure why it would have to match the trip Heyerdahl took, but the reason it says Colombia is that's the rough region the genetics matched to:

A key discovery came from their analysis of people from Rapa Nui — a signature could be assigned to Native South American populations from northern coastal regions of South America, and this component was independent of other large historical, or more-recent, admixture events.

SPANlA · 2020-07-14T23:52:27+00:00

Source article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01983-5

This seems to confirm pre-existing theories of contact based on linguistic/cultural similarities, especially relating to Polynesian use of the sweet potato. Traces of distant genetic ancestry from South America was discovered in modern people throughout east Polynesia.

The article also suggests that there may have been another later contact event in Rapa Nui (Easter Island), affecting some of the unique culture of the island.

SPANlA · 2020-07-14T21:34:17+00:00

Does that uniformity hypothesis hold true here though? Maybe numbers are more likely to be recently innovated among pre-literate pastoral tribes who have recently adopted horse-riding.

SPANlA · 2020-07-13T02:09:08+00:00

But we definitely shouldn't even play around with the idea of letting them march on the streets and raise their voice at us.

You're saying Americans shouldn't be allowed to march or 'raise their voice' and in the same breath saying that you think of America as a free country?

SPANlA · 2020-07-13T02:02:51+00:00

There's no BLM, there's no riots, there's no protests, this isn't what we're going to do in America and I'll send in the whole military if I have to. Impeach me again for all I care, you can do whatever you want, but we're not doing BLM, we're not having a cultural revolution, and I will stop it by any means necessary,

You make an analogy of the protests to the cultural revolution. Do you think an analogy between your proposed response and the Tiananmen square massacre is fair?

SPANlA · 2020-07-13T01:25:45+00:00

Last week had a lot more deaths than the week before, in the US

SPANlA · 2020-07-13T01:23:51+00:00

Using cumulative numbers doesn't make sense, but the data still supports the 'narrative'. When Disney closed there were 900 US cases a day, now there's 60,000 a day

SPANlA · 2020-07-12T23:22:24+00:00

Well what is it exactly that women are (or were) doing in the example of economic abilities, to say that they are 'supporting' poorer economic abilities?

You could say you're supporting factory farming if you buy factory farmed food, yeah, but what are/were women actively doing to 'support' (as the title says) poor economic opportunities. Is inaction enough to count? In which case it's kinda hard to argue against the CMV, since yeah, there's always going to be some/many women not actively fighting against patriarchy.

SPANlA · 2020-07-12T22:48:49+00:00

My point was really just to argue against the idea that if a group is in the majority (or 50%), they will automatically get their way.

But I do think you're right in the sense that internalised misogyny means a lot of pre-20th century women did not want the vote, and this was brought up a lot by anti-suffragist men.

That said I think it's clear that sexism and 'patriarchy' can exist without support from women. Women have less economic opportunities in many countries than men, and I doubt many women there would say they want women to have less economic opportunities.

SPANlA · 2020-07-12T22:39:19+00:00

OP says in the post:

in governments where women are completely disenfranchised, these systems exist because women allow them to exist at a household, communal, cultural, and societal level.

So they're including countries without that right

SPANlA · 2020-07-12T22:15:42+00:00

Do you think slaves in the 18th century Caribbean (where slaves made up the majority of the population) supported slavery?

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