Need Mr Hanania to tell us how Indians fit into modern race science, how do their skulls look?
@maxknightleyunofficial: did this guy miss the part where we already have a bunch of politicians of color. we had a black president even. not saying Racism Is Over but like it feels like he’s a bit late to the party is all
Not entirely sure but I think this may be a religious panic, Obama was not hindi. Sure he may have been a secret muslim, but not hindu.
Varadkar was raised Catholic. It might be a panic over non-Christians as premiers, but even if that is what it is, it’s still a race thing, obviously - obviously, there are Christians in India, both converts since British colonialism as well as native Thomasites, who trace their own origin to the missionary work of the apostle Thomas the Doubter, so you can’t tell from looking at them that none of these men are Christian. If they are reaching for religion, it is only religion as an extremely poor disguise for racism.
Think it’s the shift to a more conspiratorial racism as opposed to the IQ-and-skull shape racism. Not really a clean separation between those though.
“Decolonization has moved on from a ‘Brits no longer rule subcontinentals’ stage we could understand as a validation of self-determination to a 'subcontinentals rule Brits’ stage that matches old 'rising tide of color’ fears” is an entirely coherent message
my favorite doctor who thing I’ve ever seen was an interview with the special effects guy for the first doctor where they asked him if he was proud of the work he’d done on the show and he just straight up said “no”
Not a lawyer, but iirc the American interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition, a contract is created by ~two elements: a "meeting of the minds" (i.e., mutual understanding about the terms of an agreement) and an "exchange of valuable consideration" (i.e., an agreement is only a contract if it involves swapping things of value). Some quick googling suggests that the stuff I've bundled under "meeting" might be disaggregated but w/e. Paper doesn't matter! Signatures don't count!
right, if paper and signatures were vital to the magic ritual then we wouldn’t be able to use apps for stuff
This is why bullshit unilateral “we agree to do this” contracts and deals will formally be in exchange for $1, to make them legally valid and binding. Scots law, at least, recognizes binding unilateral “promises” without this requirement, I was looking forward to seeing that come up somehow if Scotland became independent.
I like how much of English mythology is The Great National Hero Gets Cucked
I’d call Arthurian myth more Brittonic than English. In fact I’m pretty sure the myths originated in Wales
I’m American, we’ll formally acknowledge there’s something more to British civilization than England, but we think it’s fundamentally silly when someone acts like it matters.
Just learned there was year old discourse about if “spaz” is a slur bc Lizzo said it
Let’s propose a trade. Maybe the UK is willing to allow Americans to say “spaz” but in exchange Americans must allow Brits to casually say either “cunt” or “faggot” (only have to choose one)?
i will let you say not only ‘spaz’ but the whole range of spasticity based slurs, but you must permit 'retarded’.
Is spasticity like, significant to the British, like an occupational hazard of some big local industry or an effect of exposure to dark satanic mill residue or WWI poison gas or something? I can’t remember the last time it even came up over here.
do not research Joey Deacon
Institutionalized with cerebral palsy, was assumed to be mentally “subnormal” but through much effort with other institutional patients wrote and published a pamphlet-length book which funded their independent lives, appeared on a prominent children’s show as an inspirational story but became an object of nationwide schoolboy mockery, with “spaz” taking on much the role “retard” did in American youth culture.
Okay, I guess that works. One thing I will say is the Covid-brain experience made me realize how much of the stereotype of the rural moron, loping along with hips and belly forward, shoulders back, and arms hanging down and swinging freely with the wrists loose is really a stereotype of someone with significant nerve or brain issues.
A distinction though is with American schoolboy “retard” – like, there were kids with Down Syndrome around that the term was literally invoking, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, first passed in 1975 (as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act), required students be educated in the “least restrictive environment”, and reasonably functional Down kids were taught (often in dedicated classes, with varying degrees of “mainstreaming” exposure to the general student body and regular school structures). Whereas the thing about Joey Deacon was that people with conditions like his were withdrawn from society, not exposed to the general public.
Just learned there was year old discourse about if “spaz” is a slur bc Lizzo said it
Let’s propose a trade. Maybe the UK is willing to allow Americans to say “spaz” but in exchange Americans must allow Brits to casually say either “cunt” or “faggot” (only have to choose one)?
i will let you say not only ‘spaz’ but the whole range of spasticity based slurs, but you must permit 'retarded’.
Is spasticity like, significant to the British, like an occupational hazard of some big local industry or an effect of exposure to dark satanic mill residue or WWI poison gas or something? I can’t remember the last time it even came up over here.
There was a dude who showed up to a 40k tournament in nazi shit and GW had to like. “The empire sucks please it’s satire the empire is terrible it’s the entire point we Will ban you for being a nazi here.”
I think *everything* about the lore even stuff they still put out screams that they are fascist and evil and yet people still don’t get it, or actively are drawn to it anyway like yes they are fascist more of this please!
i’m gonna have to disagree with you on this, tbh–i think the fascists who love the empire are ‘getting it’ just fine.
sure, the stuff that comes out about the empire and space marines is clear that they are cruel and violent. but they are cruel and violent and right. but they’re also very very big on the heroism of the space marines, the glorious power of the god-emperor, how real the threat of chaos is. chaos as it exists in warhammer 40k is basically the fantasy of the fascist made reality–a creeping, ever-infiltrating, ontologically evil force that will take root and destroy everything if perfect purity and control are maintained for even a second. like, yes, the empire is very clearly fascist, but they exist in a setting in which fascist propaganda is fundamentally true. fascists are able to see themselves in the empire because empire is, again and again, justified and vindicated by 40k’s writing.
and tbh this was barely better in the early days, as much as people like to cry 'well it was meant to be satire’, but at least the empire used to be also extremely fucking textually useless and incompetent to the point where they were doing more harm than good. but over the years this has entirely given way to the hypercompetent Tough Men Doing What Needs Doing space marine wank that makes up 99% of 40k output nowadays
Honestly I even think ‘a universe where the premises of fascist mythology are true’ isn’t, like, an impossible conceit to do something interesting and worthwhile with. But 'and our protagonists are the literal spartinate unbermensch action heroes’ does kind of close off like 99.99% of them.
The Empire is totalitarian continental Europe as seen from late-20cen Great Britain: the Space Marines, all technologically-advanced ubermenschen stormtroopers but not enough of them, are the Nazis; the Imperial Guard, all masses of tanks and infantry kept in line by ruthless commissars, are the Red Army; and all the rococo gold-filigreed God-Emperor stuff and heresy-hunting are the Catholic Church
The British themselves are… the orks, as a spirited, rowdily violent bunch of football casuals and assorted lads
Just checking my intuition. If someone told you that a researcher found one ethnic group found 6,000 times the general rate of father daughter incest in a UK Biobank population what ethnic group would you guess?
Like, currently, or in the past leaving tells in their genetics?
I don’t really have a sense of what the “ethnic groups of the UK” are though, let alone their incestuous reputations
