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re: Cambridge: Anglo-Saxons aren’t real
Posted on 6/5/23 at 6:46 am to Gideon Swashbuckler
Posted on 6/5/23 at 6:46 am to Gideon Swashbuckler
quote:in your mind, is King Charles “British?“ After all, his ethnicity/ancestry is more than 90% German, going back well into the 18th century.
you can't tell a Punjab from an Englishman without checking his passport. No amount of time or breeding will ever make the Mayor of London an Englishman. If it could you could move to Japan, learn the language and culture and become Japanese. To compare citizenry to ethnicity is a strawman, and you're too dumb to realize it, so you pretend to understand prehistoric man? LoL
What about the lower English nobility? Are they “British?“ After all, they are largely the descendants of Frenchman who conquered the country in 1066 and then bred mostly amongst themselves and very rarely with the native folks that they conquered. Genetically, they are closer to the residents of Normandy than to the average Englishman.
What about a fellow who lives outside Cardiff Wales? His family has been there as long as records exist. Is he “British?“ Ethically and genetically, he is a Gael and shares almost nothing in common ancestrally with someone from England. Compared to his Gaelic ethnicity, a Yorkshireman from the old Danelaw (for instance) is descended largely from Scandinavians. Is he British?
in short, there is no “British ethnicity.“ the citizens of Britain have literally dozens of different distinct ethnicities.
For some reason, however, you refuse to include British citizens from the subcontinent or from the Caribbean among those ethnicities. I wonder why that might be?
This post was edited on 6/5/23 at 7:27 am
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Posted on 6/5/23 at 6:51 am to AggieHank86
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I just don't see the historical point that Cambridge is trying to make here.
They're making a sociological point by being hyper specific historically.
This may have been addressed, but they're arguing "Saxon" is a generalized, modern term for a population of dozens of sub groups. Same with the Angles.
The point is to decrease the association with being British (English?) with being "Ango-Saxon", I'm sure because some racist/pro-English groups use the label.
Posted on 6/5/23 at 7:16 am to Bard
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AggieHank and Crazy had some interesting posts while some rando named RazorbackLaw501 (the pig fan I think you are referring to) apparently embarrassed himself so badly with shitposting he went back and deleted all of his posts in the thread.
Correct....except for the one where he told Hank he should kill himself.
Posted on 6/5/23 at 7:20 am to RazorbackLaw501
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. And if he's a lonely loser
Progressives are, which causes them to clump together in pods.
Current academic insanity isn't based on history, or facts. Its based on sociological interpretation which 90% of the time is fabricated bullshite. Sociology isn't science, its interpretation and mostly bullshite.
They're being rewarded for pretending whites and straight people are the problem in the world.
This post was edited on 6/5/23 at 7:21 am
Posted on 6/5/23 at 7:23 am to blueboy
And they all lived happily ever after…
Posted on 6/5/23 at 7:25 am to blueboy
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The department’s approach also aims to show that there were never “coherent” Scottish, Irish and Welsh ethnic identities with ancient roots.
This shite is insane. How can they expect to do this? There are libraries the world over full of books which state otherwise!
Is it just the white ethnicities being erased?
Posted on 6/5/23 at 7:26 am to lake chuck fan
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This shite is insane.
Its paid misinformation.
The craziest of social science professionals gets the attention and the fame/fortune.
We are living in separate worlds. The academic world is fake. The real world is authentic.
This post was edited on 6/5/23 at 7:28 am
Posted on 6/5/23 at 7:28 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:to some extent, there is truth in this notion. “Edgy“ theories do tend to get one more opportunities to publish and to speak in public.
The craziest of social science professionals gets the attention and the fame/fortune.
Posted on 6/5/23 at 7:29 am to lake chuck fan
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Is it just the white ethnicities being erased?
Theyre redefining terms and history.
Academics have to produce crazy theories or they get passed by others who will.
I love social science. I like sociology. But taking numerous courses you realize what it enforced is not the entirety of the subject as its been infiltrated by ideologues.
This post was edited on 6/5/23 at 7:32 am
Posted on 6/5/23 at 7:41 am to Mo Jeaux
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You’re the resident expert on every topic ever.
Yep.
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We’re all so lucky to have you here. You’re so modest too.
Yep
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Are you done with school yet?
Been done my bitch. Any more stupid questions?
Posted on 6/5/23 at 7:53 am to crazy4lsu
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Been done my bitch. Any more stupid questions?
You're such a spazz. When did you graduate? It must have been relatively recently. Posted on 6/5/23 at 8:15 am to CrimsonTideMD
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Im a genetics expert, only within the 4 walls of a punnett square. But I thought I heard something about noncoding sections being more active/necessary/functional than they were once thought to be? Been quite some time but I feel like they were considered dormant/filler/insulation-esque when I was coming through.
They can function in certain instances as regulators of gene expression, but for the most part, we don't know what function those non-coding portions serve, especially in highly robust, competitive scenarios.
While we have evidence that humans have admixture between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and at least one other homo subspecies, humans are extremely closely related. Even more impressive is the dispersal pattern and the varieties of environments humans deal with, which are amazingly broad. Humans aren't environmentally specialized, although you can see some minute adaptations, and in competitive scenarios against other peer species, that becomes meaningful in its own right. What I mean here is that the smallest degree of difference between homo sapiens and other homo species will allow for out-competition, and that the realm of that competition might not even have been strictly genetic, but rather social.
If, for example, humans maximized their mating strategies at the population level by seeking both pair-bonding as well as polyamory, that might have served as the basis for beating out rival species, because a broad mating strategy would be more sensitive to environmental changes over the long term. That we tend to prize a vague notion of intelligence over the group dynamics is its own thing, but it tends to overshadow the rather amazing ability for humans to adapt to their environment. Not only that, intelligence would have served an important function in all those environs too. Ultimately, how much admixture humans had with other homo species is relatively unimportant in a strictly evolutionary sense.
Posted on 6/5/23 at 8:18 am to Mo Jeaux
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You're such a spazz. When did you graduate? It must have been relatively recently.
Lol, I can't really be direct about this, because I'd rather not be doxxed.
Posted on 6/5/23 at 8:34 am to crazy4lsu
Understood. I just couldn't remember the last time that you mentioned that you were still in school. I admit that the last two years in particular have been a blur for me.
You just seem so angry on here lately. You should take care of yourself (although maybe you're just using this place as a means of releasing stress, which I completely get).
You just seem so angry on here lately. You should take care of yourself (although maybe you're just using this place as a means of releasing stress, which I completely get).
Posted on 6/5/23 at 8:38 am to blueboy
University professors are worse than the politicians themselves.
Good for nothing, unpatriotic, slimy, progressives, all of them.
Good Lord....you would spend their mental energy on more pressing issues!
Good for nothing, unpatriotic, slimy, progressives, all of them.
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Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
Good Lord....you would spend their mental energy on more pressing issues!
Posted on 6/5/23 at 8:50 am to Mo Jeaux
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You just seem so angry on here lately. You should take care of yourself (although maybe you're just using this place as a means of releasing stress, which I completely get).
Well, I always have used this account to call people names, but I just also have way less time to write any more substantive posts that no one reads. Now most posts are drive-by insults, which I can give the impression I'm angrier and stressed, though I'm definitely stressed.
This place between 2012 and 2019 was basically my journal for ideas and arguments, which possibly overshadowed my love of calling random strangers on the internet names.
Posted on 6/5/23 at 8:54 am to crazy4lsu
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Now most posts are drive-by insults,
Youre as much of the problem as any other person here.
Most of us use this as a venting board, its ok.
Posted on 6/5/23 at 8:55 am to crazy4lsu
quote:To some extent, you are feeding the tiger.
Well, I always have used this account to call people names
There are lots of posters here who are incapable of substantive discussion and have no ability to do anything OTHER than hurl insults. Several are active in this thread.
You DO have the ability. You should use it and leave the insults in the buffer ... unless someone insults you first, anyway. Given the crowd, it is a good bet that they will fire the first shot and give you the opportunity anyway.
Posted on 6/5/23 at 8:57 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Youre as much of the problem as any other person here
Never said otherwise. The board discourse has gone way down, and I don't suspect it will reach any higher standard for a while.
Posted on 6/5/23 at 8:58 am to crazy4lsu
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Never said otherwise.
I actually think its a positive for dudes. Its venting shite instead of holding it.
I need to start making a wall of fame insult list every time I get insulted. Might be some good ones.
This post was edited on 6/5/23 at 8:59 am
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