Soulflower

Science was based on western principles that were heavily rooted in racism and prejudice. The internet is contaminated with ignorance and foolery so I disagree with you.

Mondo Bungle

is that right

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The Batlord

But it's not necessarily a racial slur. I think it's been replaced with "congoid", but I'm pretty sure that's purely a name change just so it doesn't sound offensive, and therefore means the exact same thing. If you want to interpret negroid as racist then I can't do anything about that, but that doesn't mean you get to judge others for not sharing your particular views on language.

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Chula Vista

Even the urban dictionary doesn't refer to the word as a slur.

Urban Dictionary: negroid

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Soulflower

Yes sir.

Mondo Bungle

Just been reading up on The History of Science, and it's basically been around forever

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Soulflower

I am not interpreting it as racist. It has been used as a racial slur.

Soulflower

That doesn't mean that it has not been used as a racial slur.

Frownland

^Like how retard and idiot both started off as scientific terms but became slurs?

Ja, science totally comes from a place of Western bias.

Correct, so they're not different species. There're still great enough differences between various races that they need to be addressed though. That's not really the question though, is it?

Well not really, we all have an extremely similar genome, but across races the way that it's expressed is quite different. So this is quite similar to having a similar source such as a word processor to result in two entirely different outcomes, like a scifi or a biographical novel. It doesn't apply to your point because I had misinterpreted it, but if you were saying that there's little to no basis for basing race off of due to lack of genetic disimilarity like I thought you were, the way that it's expressed (or used, in the word processor analogy) is enough to dictate a different race.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Key

Lol. Well.