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Happy Indigenous People Day!

Post by Animavore » Mon Oct 09, 2017 8:35 pm

Because fuck Columbus and imperialist colonialism. They tried to exterminate my people too. The feckers.

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Re: Happy Indigenous People Day!

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:21 am

Solidarity with The Levellers, The Luddites, and those who fell at Peterloo too.

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Post by JimC » Tue Oct 10, 2017 1:24 am

There aren't many happy indigenous people...
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Post by Feck » Tue Oct 10, 2017 2:52 am

JimC wrote:There aren't many happy indigenous people...
Go back far enough and there aren't any indigenous people
Picts, Celts, Romans ,Saxons, Vikings,Normans(effete vikings) I've never understood flag waving in this country.
We are all mongrels .
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Post by Hermit » Tue Oct 10, 2017 3:24 am

Feck wrote:
JimC wrote:There aren't many happy indigenous people...
Go back far enough and there aren't any indigenous people
Picts, Celts, Romans ,Saxons, Vikings,Normans(effete vikings) I've never understood flag waving in this country.
We are all mongrels .
Inbreds, if you go back far enough. The Bible is awfully quiet about that.
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Re: Happy Indigenous People Day!

Post by Feck » Tue Oct 10, 2017 3:28 am

Genetics and the bible don't mix .
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Post by Svartalf » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:25 am

I bet that eventually, geneticists will find that modern man went through a genetic bottleneck... and that the religious will claim it was because of the Flood.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:27 am

Svartalf wrote:I bet that eventually, geneticists will find that modern man went through a genetic bottleneck... and that the religious will claim it was because of the Flood.
There was a bottleneck. Inconveniently for creationists, it was considerably more than 6000 years ago...
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Re: Happy Indigenous People Day!

Post by Svartalf » Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:31 am

well, only the literalists will be bothered, granted, those are the more bothersome kind of chretin...
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