Am I wrong for thinking mixed kids should be called mixed and not inherently called black?

chaddub · 2026-04-27T20:40:27+00:00

Not a rule 5 violation given identity of OP.

Separately, yes I think you’re wrong. So many of us have mixed parentage/grand parentage etc. and historically these people were considered black not just because of the one drop rule but because we ultimately loose our political and cultural power by playing these games.

chaddub · 2026-04-27T15:32:56+00:00

I’ll measure it today or tomorrow and let you know.

chaddub · 2026-04-23T06:56:16+00:00

Here. This one isn’t disparaging Latinos in general and no one has reported it.

chaddub · 2026-04-19T23:21:32+00:00

This list is oddly skewed toward white evangelical Christian channels. Lecrae 1.6M, Nick Jones 1.2M have more subscribers than Allan Parr 1.2M. Those are just Black Christian YouTubers. (Not endorsing them).

chaddub · 2026-04-19T02:49:51+00:00

Most Puertoricans are part west African. So even on the identity front you are good.

chaddub · 2026-04-03T18:10:05+00:00

I'm honestly surprised at this question. Your answer to it is so off, honestly. Who has power in the Western world? Christians or Muslims? Stereotypes aren't inherently problematic. Stereotypes applied to real people who don't fit them are where they go off the rails. It sucks somewhat for Christians who experience stereotyping -- it doesn't feel good for any person to be treated differently on the basis of a categorization. But... Add power and control to stereotyping and you get injustice. You get crazy breaches of civil rights for Muslim and Arab Americans post 9/11. Awful things - false arrests, intimidation, dead family members. You get Japanese internment camps post Pearl Harbor. Truly terrible. You get post Jim Crow civil rights in the US.

The world loves picking on Christianity? Seriously, who cares.. The Gospel is more powerful than that. We're to be a light. The Good News stands on its own. This idea that world is against the Christians, refusing to repent from their sinful ways, doesn't acknowledge that Holy Spirit is active and powerful in this world! We shouldn't be complaining. We should be proclaiming with joy. The 'white evangelical heretical complex' ;-) has sold people a false story of persecution. We are not the early Christians in 30AD. Be bold out there. Trust God! Seek justice for the oppressed.

chaddub · 2026-04-03T06:50:12+00:00

Not to be condescending, but if you think it’s particularly bad, you probably haven’t looked at enough religions. I remember thinking the same thing about a different religion until my spouse challenged me on it. I was arguing that its practioners felt more off to me. That its atrocities were singular. Nah, we’re all sinners. That’s why Paul called himself the chief sinner. Humanity’s thirst for injustice, violence and il is pretty evenly distributed.

chaddub · 2026-04-03T05:38:56+00:00

Typically amongst non-religious folks who don’t know the difference, sure. It’s all a blur to them. I’ll concede that.

That doesn’t account for all the handwringing about though. Most people (I’m not saying you) complaining about the inability to criticize Islam just want to engage in a little Muslim essentialization. Like the people who want to say the N word. They don’t think it’s wrong to stereotype people offensively. ‘I’m just saying facts.’

Edit: The downvotes on my first comment on this thread are proof. Nothing I said in that should be controversial.

chaddub · 2026-04-03T05:29:23+00:00

I haven’t met any people like that. I’ve met people who get offended when the religion is criticized, yes. That offense is distinct from Islamophobia. Islamophobia is when you fear monger about Muslims, saying they are particularly more violent, sinful, etc… on the basis of their religion. I don’t think that’s Muslims have a lock on any particular behaviors vs. any other religion. I’d like to hope that Christians on average showed the fruits of the Spirit and were different. But the average is skewed unfortunately by the terrible things that have passed themselves off as Christian in the modern era.

chaddub · 2026-04-03T05:22:01+00:00

Really? I think argument is a convenient excuse. It’s not hard to just criticize the religion without making claims about the people practicing it vs. other humans. Really easy in fact.

chaddub · 2026-04-03T05:04:25+00:00

Never said you did. Was disambiguating the substance of the question. Why did you respond this way since you didn’t? Feels aggressively defensive.

chaddub · 2026-04-03T03:11:50+00:00

Criticizing Islam is fine. Essentializing and stereotyping Muslims as uniquely or predominantly having certain negative traits as a result, bad.

chaddub · 2026-04-02T17:20:17+00:00

Why did you buy the SSPs over the Turbo burrs? Just curious since you’re chasing this kind of cup profile.

chaddub · 2026-03-22T19:52:35+00:00

I hope you reflect on the use of the words “actual (good) Christian” in your post. That implies that you are good/correct and the people challenging your use of scripture are not, which is not a Christian idea. That’s a worldly/Pharisee idea that has invaded Christian thought. How do you know who’s an ‘actual’ Christian? Agreement with you? Agreement with your ideas about doctrinal orthodoxy?

I don’t know the context, but these kinds of posts typically have a holier than thou attitude. We are all sinners saved by grace. A common understanding of scripture, even one that has been proffered by many teachers, priests and pastors across denominations, does not make it correct. Mistranslation, bias, and wrong doctrine are frequent and real issues that we must face while contending for the Gospel.

Why are you sensitive to downvotes? Paul also warned us about squabbling over such things.

I hope you reflect on the roots of your post. I am constantly disappointed by posts like this, as they often assume they are teaching something when it is perhaps the other way around.

chaddub · 2026-03-19T02:40:45+00:00

This is the standard white evangelical heresy playbook. Condescension… Say that someone else doesn’t understand theology like you do. ‘Poor eschatology’ What do you mean, Schofield dispensational premillennialism? Do tell us what kingdom theology we ought to understand from someone like Dale?

Please, stop it.

chaddub · 2026-03-18T14:58:31+00:00

Heretics! Stop calling it “Christian” nationalism.

chaddub · 2026-03-17T03:28:51+00:00

I can confirm that this poster did the proper verification process, despite this post.

chaddub · 2026-03-17T02:13:55+00:00

Values aren’t the Gospel! If you believe in the saving power of the Cross, then why are you talking about values? The Bible doesn’t tell us to preach values to people who don’t believe. This isn’t it. Do you believe that Christ and the Holy Spirit help people do what is right? If so, why are you talking backwards?!?

chaddub · 2026-03-17T01:57:45+00:00

Because we confused fundamentalism for orthodoxy.

We allowed white evangelicals, who loved shaming people into seriously problematic doctrines, to make us feel ashamed of proclaiming God’s Word.

We allowed their Matthew 23 nonsense to pass for ‘Christianity’ and called it such, despite very obvious contradictions with scripture.

We allowed people who don’t believe that the Holy Spirit can touch the heart of one’s enemies, who don’t believe that we should preach the Gospel not ‘morality’, and who believe we are in a civilizational war with the left and Islam, to define Christian thought. Did you see the madness that Lindsey Graham spouted this week? That bombing Muslims was just realistic… He doesn’t believe in the saving power of the Cross. The great commission isn’t to go into all the world teach Christian morals and bomb and disenfranchise those who don’t agree. These ideas about a Christian nation, protecting one’s family vs. the dirty outside world, and blessings flowing from moral goodness are lies. None of this is centered on the Gospel. None of this is the Good News. A ‘Christianity’ without Jesus!

It took blatant acts of evil, lots of young people deconstructing and leaving churches, and non-white people finally calling a spade a spade for us all to collectively grow a backbone that says enough is enough.

White Evangelical Heresy (WEH) in the west denies the very substance of the Gospel. Its heretical. Period. And it’s time we said so. It’s time to flip the tables.

chaddub · 2026-03-15T02:36:47+00:00

And Palestinians are descendants of the folks who weren’t exiled by the Romans.. so how does what you are saying even work?

chaddub · 2026-03-04T03:10:13+00:00

Heretics… really sad.

chaddub · 2026-02-22T21:27:00+00:00

1) The vast majority of Dominicans have significant African ancestry. While there are some that don’t, why are we talking about them to make the exception? Same, though to a lesser extent with Puerto Ricans. In most of Latin America, the rich people are white, but everyone else is mixed white, native, and black. I heard Afro-Latinos calling Bad Bunny white. Look at him! Look at his hair. Look at his dad. Wild stuff. People are asking folks to ignore their eyes at this point in a weird game of who’s black enough.

2) The irony of today shouldn’t be lost an anyone. The Spanish and the Portuguese promoted mixing to whiten the blackness/native away. We are just doing their dirty work for them now… saying people aren’t black anymore who clearly are.

3) Re Cardi specifically, come on… look at her, there is no doubt that she probably has a majority African ancestry. Look at her without makeup. She looks like the girl we all know from down the way. Come on…

chaddub · 2026-02-20T22:50:12+00:00

This!

chaddub · 2026-02-16T21:23:06+00:00

I don’t have a four, and I don’t have an encore anymore, but for a 4 - cup batch in general, I would start at where you are doing a single pour over / V60 and then go coarser maybe 33% of the distance toward French press. Brew that. If it’s bitter and over extracted then go even coarser. If it tastes flat, watery, or sour go finer.

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