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Reply 120
Original post by Pyramidologist
That is all pseudo-historical Afrocentrism. See your last source? A main contributor of that Afronut site recently got added here:

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Egmond_Codfried

Take a look. No one takes these complete quacks serious.


well thats why i put the sources. i could of quite easily paraphrased to make it seem like fact but i want people to make up their own mind.

i just show them what ive seen and if they find that its a bad source then we are both made wiser.

also out of curiosity, how have you traced it to Egmond Condfried? i only ask, because as far as i can i haven't noticed the authors name on the article.
Reply 121
Original post by Pyramidologist
You are a very poor troll.

The image you have posted has nothing to do with English or Irish.

The source is Camper's Über den natürlichen Unterschied der Gesichtszüge. 1792 and the facial angle of 1 - 8 is as follows:

1. tailed monkey, 42º; 2. orangutan, 58º; 3. Angolan Negroid, 70º; 4. Kalmuck Mongoloid, 70º 5. European Caucasoid, 80º; 6. Grecian bust, 90º; 7. Roman bust, 95º, 8. Apollo Belvedere bust, 100º.

No Irish or English.


ah... i must have got a bad source. there is a picture like this that does illustrate the point i made but sourcing it online is difficult.

not worry theres plenty more on this subject.
John Beddoe, who later became the President of the Anthropological Institute after writing such popular works. that the irish were closely linked to the "Africanoid".

its also quite commonly known that the irish were often referred to as Negroes turned inside out.
John Beddoe wrote Races of Britain. he would also later become



but yea. i appreciate the scrutiny. it all helps me polish up the point i'm trying to make.

although im curious is there anything positive that you have to say about what i wrote or is this more of a personally antagonistic perusal?
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Reply 122
Original post by IRSP044
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Don't worry about the h8ers in this thread mate. Be proud of what you are an stand tall. In my opinion its not where your from or anything that defines you. But your actions define you. And from seeing your posts I reckon you've the makings of a good socialist you will stand by the vulnerable and weak through think and thin!


yea man! thats what its all about. in the human body if one of ur cells is damaged and weak the strong cells don't just screw it over. they help repair it. when you get cells trying to dominate and capitalise over the rest of ur cells thats essentially what cancer is.

oh and thanks for the heads up with Cíarán Murphy checkin him out now. great stuff!

Tiocfaidh Ar La!
Reply 123
Original post by Pyramidologist
No there isn't, you are a liar with an Afrocentric agenda.

what have i lied about?
and yes there is. i've read plenty on how the british have tried to prove that the irish are subhuman. just as they have with black people. they are often compared to black people and/or the combo of black irish discrimination seems to regularly go hand in hand. irish and black have the highest rates of schizophrenia. irish and black nationals make up the highest foreign prison populations in the uk. and any self respecting black or irish person growing up in the uk will have the days of "no blacks no irish no dogs" stamped into their psyche. so yea theirs more for a start.

Original post by Pyramidologist

John Beddoe's ''Africanoids'' are Caucasoids, not Negroids.

''to call it Africanoid [...] the widely diffused Ibero-Berber race type, of which it is probably a subdivision'' (Beddoe, 1885, p. 11)

''Africanoid type [...] maybe a variety of the long barrow race'' (Ibid, p. 13)

''Africanoids'' is just a synonym for the Ibero-Insular or Mediterranid Proper type, absolutely nothing to do with Negroids. It is a Caucasoid racial type.

seems a bit odd that they would call a white person an africanoid. you know. with africa being so heavily associated with black people and all.

Original post by Pyramidologist

This is a political piece of propaganda, not anthropological. Its from a 19th century newspaper. It has no basis of truth to it.

how is it not true? its an example of how the british felt they were more sophisticated than black or irish people. the point i was making was that black and irish people have been thrown into the same boat many many times. and both black and irish people have time and time again been compared to apes.

Original post by Pyramidologist

There is nothing positive to say to Afrocentric trolls. You guys are distorters and liars. You are self-hating Negroids who hate your real West African roots so will try and claim other races are ''Black''.

oh gosh. personal angry agenda from u it is yes?
cool.
im white and irish lol. i don't know why you keep accusing me of being black.
Reply 124
Original post by Pyramidologist
You've claimed that the Irish are somehow ''Black'', despite the fact they have no Negroid (''Black'') admixture whatsoever. For example there are no West African haplogroups in the Irish, nor do any morphological or phenotypic Negroid traits show, so your ''Irish = Black'' theory has no element of truth to it. The Irish are Caucasoid, and have no Negroid admixture. If they had the latter it would show up in the genetics and physical anthropology, but they don't.


lies. i never claimed the irish were black. thats stupid.

and actually as for the haplogroups they found the irish to be mutations hailing from some tribe in cameroon.



Original post by Pyramidologist

This is outdated 18th and 19th century political propaganda. Completely irrelevant to science. It was also very common in America to claim certain people had ''black admixture'' to discredit them. For example, Warren G. Harding was said to have Negroid ancestry by his political opponent William Eastabrook Chancellor. Prior to the 1920 election, Chancellor published a small book claiming Harding was mixed race.

again. lies. its relevant to social sciences. its a case of sociology. please stop trying to make racism seem more sophisticated by referring to it as political propaganda. yea my grand parents being homeless and jobless in this country due to "no blacks no dogs no irish" was political propaganda too right? cuz they were running for elections too i suppose?

the date of the evidence doesn't matter in regard to the point im making which is that irish and black people have been in the same boat on many occasions in regard to how they are treated and discriminated against.

Original post by Pyramidologist

Epic fail. Not all Africans are ''Black people''. North Africans for example are Caucasoids (''Whites''), which is who Beddoe's Africanoids are (as he explains pp. 11-13). Africa has been inhabited by many different races since the Palaeolithic. ''Black people'' (Negroids) are merely confined to a small segment of Sub-Sahara Africa. They are not North or East Africans.

a small segment of sub-saharan africa?
the inhabitable region of north africa is tiny. the rest is desert.
also the arabs that inhabit north africa currently are not native.

but yea beddoe was a racist **** like you so i really dont care what his definition of africanoid. strike it from my list of examples if it suits.

north africa was originally inhabited by these guys

Original post by Pyramidologist

Given the fact you spend your time in the ''Black girl appreciation thread'', I presume you are a wigger who likes ''Black'' girls and out of deep insecurity are trying to justify your interracial fetish by claiming Irish are ''Black''...:rolleyes:


lol i spend my time in a lot of places. i love black people.

and yes i think history does explain why black and irish people get on so well and why they have both been given unique treatment in their discrimination at times often paired together. i think it explains why nigerian and brazilian immigrants have settled in ireland with relative ease where as the eastern european immigrants receive a lot of hostility.

and yes feel free to call me a wigger. i really admire, respect and appreciate black culture and black people. i understand white supremacists such as ur self implement words like wigger as to stop "fellow whites" drifting off into the hands of "the enemy" hence the put downs. because the term wigger is unique to black people. it seems to be ok to enjoy the culture of arabs, latinos and orientals. but when it comes to black people... well u cant go playing around with those darkies can you! loool.

but yea i spend my time in a lot of threads. thats one ive been to lately. nice to know you've been stalking me. but yea i've seen ur comments in there calling black people ugly. ur a racist **** and it explains ur insecure hostile nature combined with pig headed ignorance/arrogance.
Reply 125
Original post by Pyramidologist
Note that Mick. w claims the Irish are ''Black'' but then claims he is a white irishman:



Trolls these days...


lol first of all as i know your aware i never claimed the irish were black ur just putting those words in my mouth to make me easier to argue with because ur too weak to argue with me on a rational logical level.

i can see ur quite heavily hung up on my ethnicity. again... plugs into u being too weak to argue with whats actually been put on the table.

troll? says the emotional desperate man following me around on a forum spewing racist horse **** from thread to thread.

i can only hope ur a troll. if not i hope u get a life and learn to stop being such a c**t.
Reply 126
Original post by Mick.w
nothing i said conflicts with this. you should read properly. or perhaps make a point rather than just quoting wikipedia


Wikipedia which in turn quotes a physical anthropologist. You said "many Irish have brown eyes", which implies a significant proportion have brown eyes; which is false, or else the term "many" is redundant.
Original post by whyumadtho
There are also organisations in Nigeria and India dedicated to helping people who have had the invidious appellation of 'witch' ascribed to them. Something being a social reality does not mean steps should not be taken to eviscerate it, and it shouldn't be necessarily accepted, either. When it was a social reality that all African people were biologically inferior and were only useful as slaves, should society have accepted that state of affairs? Should the pernicious caste system in India be unchallenged?

There is biological variation, yes. Every organism can logically be classed as a 'different breed'.


In the same way different minerals are categorised, other things can be categorised.

They have defining features that make them what they are and form their identity and properties.

How can you even categorise humans ?
How can you tell what is human and what is a cat without social constructs defining what these are for us ?
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Original post by democracyforum
In the same way different minerals are categorised, other things can be categorised.

They have defining features that make them what they are and form their identity and properties.
Various properties can be categorised independently, but when viewed together these properties are non-concordant, meaning a universally unambiguous system cannot be formed and it is both a social construct and logical fallacy due to somebody arbitrarily declaring "eye colour is more important than ear length", for example. It is also arbitrary to separate biological continua like skin tones.

Refer to the quotes I presented by Barbujani and Belle (2006), Livingstone (2008)/Maglo (2011) and your very own claim that certain things are 'trivial'. You still haven't justified what makes something trivial.
Reply 129
Original post by FreeHat
Wikipedia which in turn quotes a physical anthropologist. You said "many Irish have brown eyes", which implies a significant proportion have brown eyes; which is false, or else the term "many" is redundant.


i'm referring to the "black irish" meaning the irish with pale white skin and dark features and jet black hair and often accompanied by brown eyes. now when i say brown eyes i don't necessarily mean fully brown.

do some research on the black irish
Reply 130
Original post by Pyramidologist
Mick, either you a very poor troll or you suffer from amnesia:



Yet only a page back:



Note: ''Africanresouce'' is a Black supremacist website. For the last two pages you have claimed the Irish are ''Black'' or related to ''Black people'' (those can easily go back and check), now suddenly though you claim they are ''White''.


i already told you once. i have never said the irish were black.

and your a retard.

even in ur own quote ur a retard. i mean how is what you provided in my quote evidence of me saying that the irish are black? it just points to the fact that 2 out of many deities were black

maman briget is a hatian voodoo loa who is white and based off st bridget. you gonna accuse me of saying haitians are white now?
Original post by whyumadtho
Various properties can be categorised independently, but when viewed together these properties are non-concordant, meaning a universally unambiguous system cannot be formed and it is both a social construct and logical fallacy due to somebody arbitrarily declaring "eye colour is more important than ear length", for example. It is also arbitrary to separate biological continua like skin tones.

Refer to the quotes I presented by Barbujani and Belle (2006), Livingstone (2008)/Maglo (2011) and your very own claim that certain things are 'trivial'. You still haven't justified what makes something trivial.


It depends what we are talking about, to decide if a ''trivial'' characteristic of something makes it a unique, separate thing.

Are we categorising different races of people, or are we saying every human is the same ?

How about animals ? How to determine which animals are different ?

How about, like my last example, minerals and chemicals ? What makes iron different from copper ?

To answer you, many people, including your average black man, would determine himself to be that because of skin colour and phenotype, not ear length.
Original post by democracyforum
It depends what we are talking about, to decide if a ''trivial'' characteristic of something makes it a unique, separate thing.
We are all unique.

Are we categorising different races of people, or are we saying every human is the same ?
Why do people continuously say this? There is biological variation.

How about animals ? How to determine which animals are different ?
There are various definitions and all of them are applied arbitrarily.

How about, like my last example, minerals and chemicals ? What makes iron different from copper ?
Their atomic composition. :confused:

To answer you, many people, including your average black man, would determine himself to be that because of skin colour and phenotype, not ear length.
What is your point? If I chose to categorise people according to ear size, it would not coincide with your categorisation by skin tone. Why is yours not equally trivial?
It's interesting...

There was a time when to be Irish was to not really be considered 'white' as such.
Original post by Pyramidologist
Geographical races (subspecies) are not only found in Homo Sapiens, they are found in all species, even including plants.

If you deny races exist, then you also have to deny species exist, followed by all other taxonomic ranks: genera, phyla, kingdoms - and life itself.

Also you have to deny objects exist. According to you, a hand axe cannot be differentiated from an empty glass. Objects according to you cannot be labeled, or identified as they are all ''arbritary'' as well...

So you are left with solipsism basically.:rolleyes:
Quote me when you have something to say that hasn't already been refuted.
Original post by whyumadtho
Quote me when you have something to say that hasn't already been refuted.


My point is, like minerals can be identified and labelled to be different, so can races. It goes deeper than skin colour though.

Ethnic unity is based on emotion, not logic.
Original post by Pyramidologist
Geographical races (subspecies) are not only found in Homo Sapiens, they are found in all species, even including plants.

If you deny races exist, then you also have to deny species exist, followed by all other taxonomic ranks: genera, phyla, kingdoms - and life itself.

Also you have to deny objects exist. According to you, a hand axe cannot be differentiated from an empty glass. Objects according to you cannot be labeled, or identified as they are all ''arbritary'' as well...

So you are left with solipsism basically.:rolleyes:


I thought it was Existential nihilism and possible schizophrenia
Original post by democracyforum
My point is, like minerals can be identified and labelled to be different, so can races. It goes deeper than skin colour though.
You're quite a poor debater and this discussion isn't going anywhere because you keep on repeating yourself without accounting for the logical arguments I am presenting.

Ethnic unity is based on emotion, not logic.
Most Norwegians don't feel an affinity with Anders Breivik; I've already told you I choose my friends on the basis of their psychological compatibility alone. People in parts of Nigeria kill their own children because they believe they are witches. Genocides have been committed amongst people who you would classify as being in the same 'group'. You cannot possibly claim it is somehow scientifically meaningful when it is so volatile, indefinite, subjective and principally shaped by surrounding social forces.

How you identify me and how I identify myself are not necessarily concordant.
Original post by whyumadtho
You're quite a poor debater and this discussion isn't going anywhere because you keep on repeating yourself without accounting for the logical arguments I am presenting.

Most Norwegians don't feel an affinity with Anders Breivik; I've already told you I choose my friends on the basis of their psychological compatibility alone. People in parts of Nigeria kill their own children because they believe they are witches. Genocides have been committed amongst people who you would classify as being in the same 'group'. You cannot possibly claim it is somehow scientifically meaningful when it is so volatile, indefinite, subjective and principally shaped by surrounding social forces.

How you identify me and how I identify myself are not necessarily concordant.


More than not people do unify on ethnic grounds though.

I can claim it, because ethnic groups exist,
and because it actually happens in real life !
Original post by Pyramidologist
You haven't refuted anything, just exposed yourself as rejecting science.
But you are unable to present a cogent counterargument, and are instead relying on meaningless circumstantial ad hominem responses.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/02/species-not-arbitrary-but-not-clear-distinct/

There is no biologist in existence who denies species, genera etc like you do. And since you deny these exist, as the above quote shows, you have to deny objects do as well. You are left with a tin-foil hat philosophical objection to science - which in the real world doesn't amount to anything, its not productive, isn't helping science, you just cling to it for sake of an argument on the web.
They're still social constructs and you have demonstrated your inability to prove otherwise (your very own quote agrees with me). The "usefulness" of a social construct is only moderated by the specific social needs of the observers. As epistemology evolves and the world is viewed in a different light, so too will the shape of various social constructs (you can see the evolution of various understandings of biological concepts over time). Do not forget that Creationism and Biblical tales were once the salient systems for understanding and labelling various elements of our existence. They were observing the same phenomena but had different conceptions of their relationships with each other and the actual definitions of the objects in question. As evinced by the species problem, various organisms are grouped differently depending on what the person observing them wants to achieve.

You can make as many claims about me as you like, but it is critical thinkers like myself who are and have always been fundamental to the advancement of science, society and our persistent attempts to understand the world. Sticking to the status quo for no other reason than it being what society currently desires (as per your loyalty to forensic anthropology) demonstrates mindless pertinacity and parochialism.

I don't happen to believe the social construct that is 'race' has any usefulness in today's society.
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