My wife is part Ashkenazi and man do I love that woman but I only know one genetic trait she got from that bloodline.
is it really spelled ashkenazi? is that intentional or ironic?
That woman lives and dies by the almighty shekel.Mass shekels?
The ones we're aware of are Linguistic-ist. Language-ist. Sometimes English-ist. Not inherently Race-ist. Only, you and Flip can't see that.
Either that or you're in mobius strip long-troll mode and everything you two say to each other is supposed to be a endlessly complex and witty Poe that only 6 people here remember from chat rooms in 1998. But Occam doubts it.
Famm has a point. The new guy with the biodiversity angle in General, whatever his name is, is way off. Not sure what his background is or what thread he came from, but he, I am guessing, has a teenage or possibly even monotheist understanding of biodiversity in humans. Language represents the DNA of culture. Of that of memes. It is the Memes that skew the IQ stats, not the Genes.
And to get in front of it, I wouldn't advocate the banning or censorship of dumb or offensive shit given a hundred lifetimes. But I'll argue with it all day!
List of words that should be banned on this forumSo, here's my thing. The best conversations on this forum can be really useful and very high level from many perspectives. I'm just tired of reading the same fucking subset of 5-10 words 40 times a page in some threads. Threads that turn into that kind of shitfest just don't interest me pages at a time because they read so poorly. Sam Harris talking to anyone doesn't need to communicate with these words because they are a waste of fucking time if you give any shits about teasing out the truth of a topic.
There is a difference between banning words that have very little actual communicative value in sharing ideas and banning topics of discussions. Banning the topics should be clearly off limits bar none. I am fine with the KKK or Black Panther manifesto being discussed, but can we do it with some kind of precision that lets it be about substance and not about about loaded derogatory words that are unnecessary to the precision of the discussion. Our community is intelligent to tease the relative necessity of using certain terms. We should be smart enough to understand that restricting words with definitions of little value is far far different than banning a topic.