I don't really care where Tomenable and the other so called racists are coming from.
Their points are data driven. Shall we all ignore whats in front of us and follow the social justice script?
Tomenable's points are data driven? Have you been reading all of them and the responses to them?
What do my posts have to do with a "social justice script"? I'll tell you what...nothing.
I can't help it if new kinds of points for hunting small game developed in the Near East, or farming, or animal husbandry, or metallurgy, or irrigation, or cities, or literacy. It is what it is. I'm sure neither you nor Tomenable have a problem with saying industrialization started in Great Britain, that the Enlightenment was a western European philosophical movement, that computerization began in the U.S.? I don't think so. Why do Tomenable and his ilk have a problem admitting what anyone who has ever taken an ancient history course knows? Are we supposed to ignore all of the achievements of the ancient Near East because the EHG weren't part of them?
As for pigmentation, maybe you have a short memory just like Tomenable. Blonde, blue eyed, fair skinned people existed in MN cultures in central Europe, and these cultures didn't carry R1b or R1a. The Anatolian farmers who came to Europe were lighter than the WHG they encountered in Central Europe. THOSE ARE FACTS, but facts that Tomenable, and perhaps you, are unwilling to acknowledge.
As for the haplogroups that appear in Europe, they all came from elsewhere. Do you doubt it? I'm not sure of the exact movements of the yDna R people, and neither should you be. It's just as likely that with the onset of the LGM they moved south and then spread out from the areas around the Caspian Sea as that they stayed for all of that time somewhere in eastern Europe. Jean Manco promoted that idea of a spread north and south of the Caspian years ago in her book. Is she pursuing a "social justice agenda"? It's absurd. What does it matter, anyway, other than as a matter of intellectual curiosity? Is it better to have stayed in eastern Europe than to have spread out from the Caspian? Why?
You didn't read that bunk he posted about the original white people were the EHG? How about the people in MN Central Europe and Anatolia who had the same depigmentation snps? They weren't "white"?
Wow, I really expected better from you, at least.