Absolutely not, that would be career suicide, thanks to people like you. They can't even make simple factual statements out of fear of being labeled a Lactose Supremacist.
nor are most researchers. A recent DNA study on the ancient Egyptians came out a few months ago concluding that they were Middle Eastern and close to Levantines and Arabs. It's not like they were forced to manipulate the data to suggest they were sub Saharan or fired due to "racism".
if that was the case then Bulgarians, Macedonians, with around 30% I2a should have been tall! They are not because tallnes is a North Albanian trait. When slavs are not mixed with North Albanian( Illyrian) blood are not tall. So it goes for Romanians, Moldovans, Ucrainians with high I2a. So do yourself a favour, get to the senses and thank Illyrian blood for tall genes.
Height is 80-90% genetic so it's not that I dislike the conclusions, in fact, they admit they only discovered 29% of the genetic contribution. I assume several independent academic researchers got their data from 23andme.
I'm very glad to hear that, striving to be objective is half the battle.
A successful career unfortunately requires keen political instincts.
It's better to view it as constructive criticism rather than an insult. As a moderator you should try to make this an inclusive forum for everyone, diversity is a wonderful thing. Communists, fascists, SJWs, and neo-nazis are fascinating people which add a richness to everyday life, of course one has to be careful about giving them too much power, before you know it they try to get rid of anyone with a different opinion.
The threads in which these arguments are happening are almost always directly related to these people's and territories in which they live. The Dinaric Alps span from Slovenia at their most north to Kosovo and Albania and their south most. If the topic of the thread is why people of these alps are so tall then its not mysterious or irrelevant that people discuss the people that live in those territories (and their origins).
The largest contribution to the constant balkan arguments can simply be boiled down to this: Misinformation.
There are two ways that misinformation propagates, unintentionally and intentionally.
The unintentional way is the most likely, most people have been brought up with certain information and their material socioeconomic lives are invested
in the picture of their neighbors' and their relations to them. They've been taught in school and media that this is how it is, and when they
read something counter to this it sounds outright false and irritating. I reiterate that most of the spread of misinformation is done like
this. Like with a virus that is spread unintentionally, people are just standing by what they think to be true.
The second way is intentional propagation of disinformation for the purpose of achieving political ambitions. This is malicious, cynical and depressing
but these people exist and not only do they exist but they are extremely active, and forums like these are perfect niches for them to
disseminate their disinformation.
Here I'll show you one example:
Boris Malagurski is a Serbian filmmaker with ties to the Serbian government. He makes many "documentaries"
about Kosovo and Albanians. He is currently lobbying to US congress against Kosovo and many other such things.
Here is just some of the stuff he tweets out:
He openly and intentionally spreads misinformation that Albanians came from the Caucausus during the ottoman empire. This would not be a big
deal if it was just one crazy guy, but the Serbian and Yugoslavian state also spread this misinformation for many years and still does. There
are still school textbooks in Serbia to this day that teach Serbian students that their Albanian neighbours came here with the turks.
Bear in mind that Boris Malagurksi has many documentaries on youtube with hundreds of thousands of views. When I see misinformation
like this being spread I can either choose to ignore it and risk the chance that people who know nothing about the balkans
believe it entirely (and maybe even unintentionally spread it) or I can counter it.
This is almost always how the balkan arguments begin.
Yesterday in the I2a-din thread it managed to veer into discussions about world war 1 politicians. While it may appear irrelevant
to outsiders there is most of the time a reason that these discussions are veering in these directions.
For example, a map about populations living in certain territories is produced as evidence that there are no Albanians/Serbians
in a given place. If its not made clear that this map was made intentionally by people who had clearly recorded political ambitions
of cleaning territories of minorities then the map appears more objective than it really is.
In this situation I don't blame the mods, they are doing their best and put a lot of work in to trying to be impartial and people
here can come across as not grateful of this.
As a point on how ideology can warp the perspective of objectivity and what qualifies as "evidence" here is a screenshot of how many
"flat earth proof" results show up on Youtube.
If you can convince an ever growing community that the earth is flat then imagine how easy it is to distort such obscure, complex and nuanced
subjects such as migrations, populations, nations, histories etc.
Also, be wary of sock puppet accounts that jump into these threads. Quite manageable with VPN's and proxy to make a 2day old fake account to muddy waters in
threads like these.
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