Thread on reddit: "Today I learned Africans are the only modern humans that aren't part Neanderthal"

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2k3wnh/til_africans_are_the_only_modern_humans_that/

 

[Poitier]

Now they are going back and making Neanderthals this advanced race

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Now they are going back and making Neanderthals this advanced race

It just shows how absurd the whole thing is.

The term "advanced" doesn't make much sense.

Everything alive is at its terminal branches of existence.

We're just as evolved as fish that are living today. Complexity is a different matter however.

 

[Colin X]

When y'all make threads like this I'm always thinking it's with all the smart people on reddit.

 

[Snoopy Loops]

It just shows how absurd the whole thing is.

The term "advanced" doesn't make much sense.

Everything alive is at its terminal branches of existence.

We're just as evolved as fish that are living today. Complexity is a different matter however.

See this part I dont get, by that logic, what you're saying is that humans can't be precursors to any distinct future species

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

See this part I dont get, by that logic, what you're saying is that humans can't be precursors to any distinct future species

Thats not what I said.

You can have "processors" but to call them "advanced" is flawed.

 

[LordTaskForce]

RamsesThePigeon 219 points an hour ago

Here, I'll save everyone the trouble:

"Neanderthals were smarter than homo sapiens, you know. The only reason they died off was because homo sapiens killed them all."

"Are you suggesting that people with neanderthal blood are more intelligent?"

"Well, clearly we were more inclined to befriend them than kill them..."

TL;DR: Not-so-subtle racism.

"Weird. You'd think it would be the other way around."

"Why?"

"Just think about it."

TL;DR: Even-less-subtle racism.

"Yeah, fukking figures."

"Did you even read the article?"

"I don't need to read a bunch of [EXPLETIVES REMOVED] filthy [EXPLETIVES REMOVED] with their [EXPLETIVES REMOVED] and [EXPLETIVES REMOVED]."

"Yeah, just look at the crime statistics in America."

TL;DR: Overt racism trending into off-topic discussions with racist undertones.

at least some people are pointing it out

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

"If by pigeons you mean Parisians, then yes they are a real problem" lol.

Funny though how a dude can come out on there and openly say something about homo sapiens having a more developed frontal lobe than Neanderthals which explains why we can do algebra

How can you say such a thing when you've never even met a Neanderthal? They were eliminated before algebra was even invented. People kill me with that sense of certainty in the things they say

 

[marcuz]

no shyt, they are the true sub-humans.


but that caveman dna adds a level of viciousness that blacks aren't able to compete with.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Why were you even on Reddit in the first place?

 

[ElectroMan]

Darwin been said this brehs.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

—The Descent of Man (1871), Volume I, Chapter VI: "On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man", pages 200–201

 

[shmoney]

Why were you even on Reddit in the first place?

@Theraflu why waz @Napoleon on reddit?

 

[msims]

WhipTheLlama [score hidden] 51 minutes ago


TIL it's racist when you say that black people are part Neanderthal and it's racist when you say that they aren't. This is why white people get nervous talking about this shyt.

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Subalpine [score hidden] 44 minutes ago


its when you try and draw conclusions from it without actually attempting to understanding the science.

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Slyj0ker [score hidden] 47 minutes ago


I thought slavery was why white people get nervous talking about this shyt ._.

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MeloJelo [score hidden] 43 minutes ago


Or the 100+ years following the end of slavery . . . at least in the US.

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flukshun [score hidden] 40 minutes ago


pretty much everyone had slavery at some point. it's a question of how we've gotten on since then.

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MeloJelo [score hidden] 27 minutes ago


And the answer to that second question is, "not so great."

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BuddhistJihad [score hidden] 49 minutes ago


It's not about saying they are or aren't, it's about how and why you say it.

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flukshun [score hidden] 41 minutes ago


is there a how and why which would not be grounds for being labelled a racist?

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MeloJelo [score hidden] 27 minutes ago


Yes. This article does a good job of it.

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icallbullshyts [score hidden] 37 minutes ago


There are many, many white people who speak freely about this stuff. It's the white people with ulterior motives for speaking about it that are nervous.

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Reddit is full of middle class white men who are ignorant to anything other than being a middle classed white man, in regards to walks of life. They always seem to turn, negatively, things into race. It's why I've stopped going there so much.

Its like some of them have sense, but for the most part, they are bat shyts racist.

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[Theraflu]

@Theraflu why waz @Napoleon on reddit?

iono

 

[Snoopy Loops]

Thats not what I said.

You can have "processors" but to call them "advanced" is flawed.

Precursors or processors?