Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	1-Nov-05/12:49 PM
If you're going to use sarcasm in literature please make it at least slightly noticable. No one can hear the accentuation in your voice that makes sarcasm so common in spoken language. PS. Try to pass that knowledge on to DA if it's at all possible.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	zodiac 217.144.7.195	1-Nov-05/12:46 PM
"Modern man" is an arbitrary distinction. So is "mutt". I agree with the rest. I just don't agree with making things easier.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	zodiac 217.144.7.195	1-Nov-05/12:45 PM
You're right. For all your insistence of dictionaries, you haven't actually defined race, dictionary definition or not. So let's get on the same page. This one: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=race Some highlights: "2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race." "The biological aspect of race is described today not in observable physical features but rather in such genetic characteristics as blood groups and metabolic processes, and the groupings indicated by these factors seldom coincide very neatly with those put forward by earlier physical anthropologists." CONCLUSIONS: You basically have no leg to stand on saying Cockney, Muslim, and Jew aren't races except a traditional definition long ago superseded. Other mainstream thinking until radical politics got mixed in it includes (1) the white race is superior other races, (2) other races are subhuman animals, especially Jews (cf. the Aryan movement). I suppose you'll want to defend those traditional definitions now, too?
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	1-Nov-05/12:39 PM
Take a deep breath. now count to ten. Ok. There is an African tribe who's genes are closer to the original genes of modern man than any other group of people on earth. The rest of us are just mutts. By the way. the more diverse you're genes are the more genetically superior you are. So the philosophy of race has no validity but is still present and will be for a great long time because it makes people easier to catagorize.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	1-Nov-05/12:38 PM
I never said there are only three races, even though a long time ago that was the definition. Read again; I said other divisions are acceptable, but only based on physical characteristics. And that was the mainstream thinking until radical politicals got mixed into it.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	zodiac 217.144.7.195	1-Nov-05/12:32 PM
What, in your opinion, is the wide difference between white and black races? (Hint: Black is the opposite of white!!!) Besides, by your definition, there are only three races. Are you really only saying 'the difference between the white and black races is wider than between the black and asian races or the white and asian races'? Or have you already forgotten your own defintion? Your traditional definition goes on to say that the traditional definition is completely flawed and widely disregarded by most people. Ace!!!
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	1-Nov-05/12:30 PM
Yes, but I was kidding. lol. :)
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	zodiac 217.144.7.195	1-Nov-05/12:28 PM
Granted. I guess we ran that conversation out. Record time, too.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	1-Nov-05/12:28 PM
Oh, I see, my statement is one a moron makes. Again, you do not use the dictionary definition. I said the difference is debatable, but you must admit there is a wide difference between the white and black races, wider than between most races. And besides it's a side issue, not the thrust of my comment. Race is distinguished only by physical characteristics in the traditional definition.
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	zodiac 217.144.7.195	1-Nov-05/12:24 PM
"I thought of Square Pantsed Bobbers as TNT-clothed Muslims."
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	zodiac 217.144.7.195	1-Nov-05/12:22 PM
You moron. Do you really believe the black race is the "most different" from the white race? On what basis? Skin color alone? That's the most preposterous of all the preposterous things you've said on this site. If you don't get it, I'm fucking pissed. PS-Do your fucking research. The genetic differences between, say, Pacific Islanders and whites are far greater than the genetic differences between blacks and whites. Dectuple that if you're talking about African- or Anglo-Americans, or any blacks in a former white colony. Dim, dim, dim, dim, dim, dim. PPS-The definitions I've posted are from the EXACT SAME DEFINTION you used above. Learn to fucking scroll down, honey. The definition of racism is from dictionary.com too.
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	1-Nov-05/12:21 PM
It's not about Muslims either, silly.
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	1-Nov-05/12:18 PM
Oh, you have something we don't, no doubt about it.
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	zodiac 217.144.7.195	1-Nov-05/12:17 PM
Another bum metaphor. Muslims don't wear dynamite pants.
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	zodiac 217.144.7.195	1-Nov-05/12:16 PM
I'll readily concede that. And concede that people who feel (or whatever) the presence of something spiritual in the world have something I don't. Now if they'll just admit that I have something they don't...
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	Dovina 69.175.32.104	1-Nov-05/12:16 PM
Maybe so. I'm still flattered.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	1-Nov-05/12:15 PM
Don't worry though. Our horny soldiers in the middle east will soon put some mutts into those pure family trees.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	zodiac 217.144.7.195	1-Nov-05/12:14 PM
Most people studying the matter (there are such people - I'm one of them) note that transvestites imitate a warped or ideal version of womanhood not actually found in most women. There has been a lot of discussion of the fact that transvestites reinforce gender stereotypes rather than subverting them by presenting themselves as 'ultrafeminine', with all that word's accompanying subtexts.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	1-Nov-05/12:13 PM
That's because they will not be the traditional definition. Everybody wants to change it because it's a hot, sensitive topic.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	Dovina 69.175.32.104	1-Nov-05/12:10 PM
I already retracted it when I said "no doubt" which is to show doubt. Assuming he is caucasian, then negro is about as different as it gets, but of course that's debatable. And besides it's not answering my comment. And I used a dictionary - see above. Racism is discrimination based on race, not on religion.