Originally Posted by
Angela
Do you freaking know how to stay on topic and pursue an argument logically?
We're not talking about European attitudes toward unchecked, un-documented mass migration of people without skills and from a non-Western culture coming into Europe.
We're talking about one group of Europeans believing another group of Europeans is inferior and should be "kicked out of Europe", to use his own phrase.
THAT IS RACISM. It exists; nobody made it up, like stupid cultural appropriation at Halloween.
And it's dangerous.
They're condemned out of their own mouths.
Dosas' political beliefs, his attitude toward migration, like mine, are irrelevant to the topic, although I will tell you I'm probably much more conservative than you are.
It's either real or it's not, and I have the screenshots which prove it's real. Why do you think they sent that guy who was a "star" at theapricity to jail? You think it was just because of the classifications they do and their comments about Italians"? They did a hell of a lot more than that, those people.
The only point upon which I would disagree with Dosas is as to whether it's recent or not. I believe this toxic ideology has been around since at least the 1800s in England, the U.S., Germany, Scandinavia, even France.
All you have to do is read a little history to know I'm right; start with Vienna in the early part of the 1900s, for example. It's no mystery where Hitler got his ideas; they were common currency in the cafes and beer joints he frequented. Read about the Dreyfus case. For God's sake, they're still ranting about Jews in Poland and Hungary when there are none left in their countries. It's like a disease. No wonder there are still hidden Jews there. Or, read the opinions of some of those "physical anthropologists" they claim to follow.
As to the Yamnaya, you clearly don't remember the stuff you read on eurogenes. Until the Sandra Wilde and Mathiesen papers came out, the perceived wisdom among all the amateur experts like Polako was that the Yamnaya would turn out to be blonde and blue eyed. Where do you think he got the whole "blonde cowboys of the steppe" thing? Then he turned it to Corded Ware. Unfortunately for him they trundled along behind their cow pulled wagons. :)
It extended to the Mycenaeans as well. Two weeks before the paper on them came out showing "maybe" 15-18% steppe and a dark southeastern European type phenotype, he was promising that they would be blonde/blue eyed R1a Corded Ware people.
See what happens when you draw conclusions from your agenda instead of the data? More than half the time you wind up looking like a fool.
If the leaks are correct, that whole crew was completely wrong about the Etruscans, and for the same reason.
Now, enough off topic. Get back to genetics.