Diet is one of the more subtle pillars of leftism. As with all liberal beliefs, the low-fat diet is grounded in both academic spuriousness and social support amongst adherents. We expect defense of the low-fat paradigm to rest on shoddy evidence, as almost all anti-meat studies do not control for differences in general health conscientiousness between groups. But something interesting happens when the vegetarian mafia encounters evidence undermining their religion; they sometimes commit unbelievable errors relevant to their other beliefs.
Here's Amanda Marcotte admitting to the notion that racial groups differ, i.e. HBD (seriously):
This was heavily criticized, not just by vegans but by lactose intolerant people and equality-advocacy groups that pointed out, rightly, that the assumption of lactose tolerance is casually white dominated, since European-descended people tend to digest lactose on average better than everyone else.In other words, "equality-advocacy groups" criticize the food pyramid's implied importance of dairy, arguing that this advice only applies to white people and thus illustrates yet another incidence of anti-minority bias. Of course, Ms. Marcotte (a vegan - shocking!) also thinks that believing in racial differences (which she admits to above) is the epitome of bigotry, so once again, it's a lose/lose in her mind.
In an article from Time magazine, the anti-paleo author makes the same exact case:
For one thing, there was no single Paleolithic "lifestyle." Survival in Ice Age Europe, for instance, was vastly different from life on the African savannah, requiring different diets, behaviors and genetic adaptations.That's the most basic premise of HBD, yet I can't imagine Time racing to hire Steve Sailer any time soon. Unless Time has embraced bioconservatism, this naked appeal to racial differences contradicts the general leftism of their magazine. For example, here's a video celebrating the Harlem's Children Zone and its founder Geoffrey Canada, a video interview with Teach for America's founder, and an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates defending Henry Gates following his 2009 arrest. I can't imagine Time champions anything except liberal creationism, so the quoted statement surely contradicts one of their central premises. Fittingly, the article attempts to maintain the credibility of anti-male and anti-white diet and exercise, whereby foreign foods and testosterone-draining workouts find favor amongst the SWPL class.
Curiously, liberals never really notice the apparent contradictions. Getting their ideas pushed matters far more than anything else.
42 comments:
Lactose tolerant is intolerant!
Surely you don't expect consistency from them? They'll happily admit HBD when it's to their advantage and against yours. Otherwise we're all the same and only institutional racism/sexism and conscious/subconscious white male bigotry is keeping everyone from being equal, you horrible person you!
People of COlor have kids. White people do not.
Everythong wlse os moot.
Thanks to the domination of worthless progressive thought, we may be living in the most irrational period in American history where we actually are told to deny the obvious and embrace whatever it is they tell us no matter how absurd.
One- Is there any way you can block Anon 9:34 ?
It's the same nonsense every day.
White and black American women have almost the same total lifetime fertility rates. 1.8 for white women and 2.0 for black ones. It's now down to 2.5 for Hispanics, a big drop from the 3.1 of the prior census.
White and black American women have almost the same total lifetime fertility rates. 1.8 for white women and 2.0 for black ones. It's now down to 2.5 for Hispanics, a big drop from the 3.1 of the prior census.
Which is why we have to keep importing more
third-worlders to maintain our high standard of living!
Liberalism is hypocrisy the two terms are inseparable. I have never met a Liberal or have heard of a Liberal tenet that is not hypocritical.
Chicks would turn their noses up at sushi, that is, until it became trendy. Now they cannot get enough.
How much of that demand is slavery to fashion and how much is actual gastronomic pleasure?
Still, there is a way of separating the true sushi fan from the poser:
order the mackerel nigiri. If they don't touch that, you know you've got a lousy poser on your hands.
I personally think that the only white folks who truly like sushi are those of Scandinavian and/or coastal North European or Mediterranean descent.
On another note, for years I've taken an abnormal liking to the Vietnamese/Thai condiment/additive known as fish sauce. I always wondered where I got that craving from, since no one in my immediate or extended family likes it.
To my great surprise, I found out that a nearly identical version (of what I thought was an entirely southeast Asian phenomenon) of fish sauce existed in ancient Rome, and was widely consumed in great quantity. It's called Garum:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Garum
Apparently the tastes of my Roman ancestors have resurfaced in me.
White women are having the babies of Men of Color. Especially blacks and hispanics.
White women do not want white babies.
White People are magically smart and can move mountains and do anything they want.. Quality White women are making White babies by the millions each year. we only toss ugly stupid mentally defective ones to men ofColour. And black men then slaughter their Mulattoe Elite like in Haiti. Dumbasses
One thousand White Men can beat twenty thousand black men.
Amanda Marcotte is a rabid feminist, so you can't expect her to make sense.
White women are having the babies of Men of Color.
Cool. Can I watch?
Lactose tolerant is intolerant!
LOL.
They'll happily admit HBD when it's to their advantage and against yours.
I don't really expect consistency, but you figure that the one issue they hate the most (HBD and race realism) would be out of bounds no matter what.
One- Is there any way you can block Anon 9:34 ?
It's the same nonsense every day.
Unfortunately, Wordpress does have this capability, but Blogger does not. I could get Disqus, but I really like the comment template right now so I'm hesitant to change over.
And please ignore the troll. I'm being serious in stating that this guy likely has some mental deficiency, perhaps some form of mild insanity, like the crazy people you encounter on public transportation.
European-descended people tend to digest lactose on average better than everyone else.
Because European people domesicated animals centuries ago. What animal have Africans to this day dometicated?
As for diet, I lost 65 pounds on a diet high in fat.
I'm being serious in stating that this guy likely has some mental deficiency, perhaps some form of mild insanity, like the crazy people you encounter on public transportation.
Maybe, but I still suspect it's FP/GBFM doing his thing. It has his fingerprints all over it.
What animal have Africans to this day dometicated?
The Maasai, among other African herdsmen, have domesticated cattle and live primarily on its milk and blood and meat.
As for diet, I lost 65 pounds on a diet high in fat.
That should come as no surprise to anyone who didn't buy into the bogus lipid hypothesis.
"what I thought was an entirely southeast Asian phenomenon) of fish sauce existed in ancient Rome, and was widely consumed in great quantity. It's called Garum .....
Apparently the tastes of my Roman ancestors have resurfaced in me."
Congratulations! You've discovered that you share a craving that, after the lust for sugar, nearly every other human on the planet craves: Salt. (Plus a few incidental nutrients, fish sauce is basically a liquid form of sodium)
I can't imagine Time racing to hire Steve Sailer any time soon
The funny thing is, if through some absurdly improbable series of events a mainstream media outlet actually did give Sailer a column, their readership would skyrocket.
White women do not want white babies.
Actually, that should read: "Black men prefer grossly fat, low-IQ white sluts to black women."
There has not been a single professional gal I've known that has not had a hankering for sushi. I can't stand it personally, though I like other kinds of Japanese foods.
Having spent some time in China, my next time eating Chinese ... will be never. The best cure for a dose of SWPL-ism is eating "authentic" foreign foods. Which are almost uniformly disgusting.
I once sat at a banquet in Beijing that resembled the "feast" scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Right down to "snake surprise!"
Off topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fWEtzQglckQ
Would like to hear your commentary on this amazing video, One.
Whiskey said...
"Having spent some time in China, my next time eating Chinese ... will be never. The best cure for a dose of SWPL-ism is eating "authentic" foreign foods. Which are almost uniformly disgusting."
My parents went on a trip to China once and when they got back home the number one question I asked them was, "so how was the food?"
answer: It was disgustingly greasy and salty.
My sister at one time wanted to try "authentic" Mexican food as in the food that Mexicans eat, and not what they feed to the American tourists. When she saw a street vendor save the food that the previous customer left behind and mixed it in with the "new" food that is to be served to the next customer that was the end of that.
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Yeah, I'm the same way toward people who've never been to Japan yet gush about how exquisite Japanese cuisine is. Most Japanese eat slop that tastes like dog food. Even the sushi there is very subpar except at expensive (very expensive) restaurants. And don't even try to find decent foreign cuisine in Japan. It's even worse.
Most people eat slop, period.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS1i0s_dL9w
Yeah, but no one gushes about how "exquisite" American or British slop is. The point is you have to search long and hard to find food in Japan that won't turn your stomach. And that'll cost a pretty penny. (As opposed to Thailand, where the food is quite tasty and very cheap.)
"(Plus a few incidental nutrients, fish sauce is basically a liquid form of sodium)"
If you wanna try substituting brine instead, be my guest.
Curiously, liberals never really notice the apparent contradictions. Getting their ideas pushed matters far more than anything else.
Of course not. Because they have no rules, just a narrative. If leftoids had any need for consistency, they wouldn't be leftoids.
People of COlor have kids. White people do not.
Everythong wlse os moot.
Correction: the Whites most allied to NAMs don't have kids. The Whites least allied to NAMs do.
I once sat at a banquet in Beijing that resembled the "feast" scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Right down to "snake surprise!"
The more I hear about the Chinese and Japanese from other people, the less awkward I feel about using James Clavell as the handbook to Chinese and Japanese culture. The man's always right. One of his talking points is how the Chinese will eat anything.
And damnit Rotgut, can you get a reference right, for once? That's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
But something interesting happens when the vegetarian mafia encounters evidence undermining their religion; they sometimes commit unbelievable errors relevant to their other beliefs. Here's Amanda Marcotte admitting to the notion that racial groups differ, i.e. HBD
^^Dubious. All AManda is doing is noting that European groups have higher on the average lactose tolerance, worldwide. This issupposed to "undermine" vegetarianism? Really a stretch.. Amanda is not "admitting" to any HBD dogma. ANd lactose tolerance is not a "Racial" trait. Such a claim is typical of HBD baloney that defines many differences between groups in some sort of "Race" framework. HBDers are as bad as liberals in seeing "race" under every leaf of every tree, and playing their own little "race card" at every opportunity.
As for lactose tolerance, Europeans are nothing special. Just because groups differ does not automatically create a "race" difference. In fact, numerous Africans have lactose tolerance, such as among some of the cattle-herding cultures of the continent. The fact that European averages on lactose tolerance are much higher does not make for a "racial" feature. WHites have a much higher incidence of breast, prostate and large bowel cancer than blacks but few credible scholars are running around talking about breast cancer as a white "Racial" trait. Amanda's "so-called "race admission" is nothing of the sort.
For one thing, there was no single Paleolithic "lifestyle." Survival in Ice Age Europe, for instance, was vastly different from life on the African savannah, requiring different diets, behaviors and genetic adaptations.
^^HEre is the bogus HBD "race card" again being used in a misleading way. Of course survival in a cold climate will cause different patterns than in a tropical climate. COld climate peoples for example have shorter limb proportions in relation to the trunk. Tropical peoples by contrast, from the Nile Valley to the Kalahari have longer limb proportions in relation to the trunk (Trinkhaus 1981, Holliday 2010, 2000, et al.) Narrow noses occur in tropical environments at higher altitudes, or in the deserts, or in the cooler areas of tropical zones. But narrow noses also occur in cold climates too. Traits can thus not only differ, but be similar as well, and human populations move from place to place. All this is well known in scientific circles. But such routine human variation does not mean the peoples of different regions are biological sub-species or "races." They can be LABELED as "Races" or "space aliens" by anyone, but mere labeling does not credibly define the data BIOLOGICALLY. All it means is that they may differ (or sometimes be similar) along varying geographic and/or enviro clines.
FInally the notion of allegedly "harsh" "Ice Age" Europe- in which noble white cavemen shuffled around on their way to higher evolution, becomes laughably dubious when put under scrutiny. IN fact, the climate of ancient EUrope fluctuated widely, yielding balmy sub-tropical temperatures at various points. It was often a highly stable, resource-rich enviroment that one historian descrives as a veritable garden of Eden with a profusion of numerous edible plants and animals as documented in numerous cave paintings such as at the famous Lascaux area in France. In addition to land resources, there were rich aquatic resources such as at the Iron Gates region in cold Scandanavia- water-based ones of the ocean, river and lake, that were relatively stable and predictable, providing plenty of food - hardly the picture of alleged cold-climate peoples "deprivation" in "chaotic" and "unforgiving" glacial environments, as alleged by dubious HBD fantasies. More info see for example:
-- Lewin, Roger (1988). In the Age of Mankind. Smithsonian. pp. 144
Liberalism is hypocrisy the two terms are inseparable. I have never met a Liberal or have heard of a Liberal tenet that is not hypocritical.
^^Hypocrisy occurs in every ideology. As conservative scholar Thomas Sowell pointed out long ago: SOme conservatives rail against "unconsionable" "welfare subsidies" for the poor even as they themselves hasten to demand government subsidies and giveaways for already rich farmers or favored corporate cronies and golden boys. Mayhaps you can make the argument that liberals tend to be MORE hypocritical.. a matter of degree...
rjp said...
Because European people domesicated animals centuries ago. What animal have Africans to this day dometicated?
^^Africans domesticated local breeds of cattle independently of EUrope or the Middle East thousands of years ago as credible scholars show. QUOTE:
"Hanotte et al. used allele frequencies from 50 populations of modern cattle across the African continent to examine genetic variation. Their results reveal three ancient genetic signatures and each signature’s center of origin or region of entry. The native African taurine breed was independently domesticated in northeastern Africa, perhaps the eastern Sahara, and later migrated with pastoralist or crop-livestock farmers west and south."
--M. A. Kennedy. The Origins of African Cattle. Current Anthropology Volume 44, Number 1, February 2003)
"independently domesticated in northeastern Africa"
Anything from sub-saharan Africa?
Yeah, like I said, the Maasai in Kenya. Is that subsaharan enough for you? I think what you're trying to ask is if any black tribes from West Africa (where most American slaves came from) ever domesticated animals. And the answer is yes (the Fulani, for example). You know, it's pretty easy to Google this stuff before you post.
They'll happily admit HBD when it's to their advantage and against yours.
John Entine's Taboo is based on only looking at part of the data and a small minority of sports activities.
ANon 1143pm said:
"independently domesticated in northeastern Africa"
Anything from sub-saharan Africa?
^^Uh, do you realize that
most of Northeastern Africa is below the Sahara and is thus part of "sub-Saharan" Africa? And do you realize that the Sahara historically has been a moving target- not only fluctuating in its width but was also once a lush greenblet? And do you realize that tropical Africa extends into parts of Egypt, Libya and Algeria as well via the Tropic of Cancer? In addition to the native African breed of cattle is the domestication of the donkey, deriving fron the Somali wild ass and its Nubian counterparts.
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Anon 446am said:
Yeah, like I said, the Maasai in Kenya... You know, it's pretty easy to Google this stuff before you post.
^^lol, exactly.
"Yeah, like I said, the Maasai in Kenya. Is that subsaharan enough for you? I think what you're trying to ask is if any black tribes from West Africa (where most American slaves came from) ever domesticated animals. And the answer is yes (the Fulani, for example). You know, it's pretty easy to Google this stuff before you post."
Who domesticated them? Those are tribal groups, not what I asked for.
"Uh, do you realize that
most of Northeastern Africa is below the Sahara and is thus part of "sub-Saharan" Africa? And do you realize that the Sahara historically has been a moving target- not only fluctuating in its width but was also once a lush greenblet? And do you realize that tropical Africa extends into parts of Egypt, Libya and Algeria as well via the Tropic of Cancer? "
Which is why I asked for a less ambiguous answer.
"Who domesticated them?"
Based on the data, Hanotte and his colleagues concluded that people living in Central Africa developed cattle domestication on their own, and that the techniques—or the herders themselves—gradually migrated toward the west and the south, spreading domestication across the continent.
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2002/04/0411_020411
_africacattle.html
"The best cure for a dose of SWPL-ism is eating "authentic" foreign foods."
Nonsense. Authentic Chinese food in China (and banquet food is not what people normally eat) is generally very good - less greasy, more complex flavors and far less sugar than the crap Americans call "Chinese". Authentic Mexican food in Mexico, especially in wealthier cities like Mexico City or Puebla, is much better than anything you'll find in the US. Food in the US really is generally pretty lousy.
Authentic Chinese food in China (and banquet food is not what people normally eat) is generally very good - less greasy, more complex flavors and far less sugar than the crap Americans call "Chinese".
Probably depends on what region of China you're in. Everyone I know who has been to Beijing says the food is extremely greasy. On the other hand, most of those who've been to Shanghai say the food is generally very good.
FWIW, I found the food in Portugal the greasiest I've ever eaten. Everything I ordered came swimming in oil half an inch deep.
Yeah, but no one gushes about how "exquisite" American or British slop is. The point is you have to search long and hard to find food in Japan that won't turn your stomach. And that'll cost a pretty penny. (As opposed to Thailand, where the food is quite tasty and very cheap.)
You guys are missing the forrest for the trees. The main takeaway is that American culture is really good at turning slop into something pretty good. Americanized versions of ethnic cuisine are almost always significant improvements over the homeland original.
I've eaten at the best restaurants in Bejing (at least the best non-party big-wigs are allowed in) and you get better tasting food from the chinese buffet at Safeway.
I've eaten at the best restaurants in Bejing (at least the best non-party big-wigs are allowed in) and you get better tasting food from the chinese buffet at Safeway.
Same with Japan. The Japanese food in the US is almost always better than what you'll get in Japan itself. I was at a fairly upscale bar in Yokohama where you had to buy an appetitizer to get your drink, so I was served what looked and tasted like a scoop of Alpo on a mound of turnip paste. Next to me was a Japanese girl who had spent several years in the US, so I asked her what she thought about the Japanese food in America. She rolled her eyes and said it wasn't really authentic. I put the bowl of Alpo under her nose and asked, "What, you mean authentic like this? You mean you never once had anything as yummy as this in the US?" She looked away and changed the subject. I had also eaten at a few pricey "Indian" restaurants in Japan, all of them godawful. Order naan and chutney and you will get (I kid you not) matzos with ketchup & Del Monte pickle relish.
there are true biological differences here, and it would be insulting to any realist to deny them. difference genetic pools have, on average, difference responses to different foods. in fact, i am east asian by descent and have, at the age of 25, developed severe cramping and bloating symptoms due to the continual intake of dairy in my diet. this is not how i wish to live out the rest of my life. thus, it is truly racist, ethnocentrist, and bigoted for someone to DENY the fact that i experience social and physical reality differently simply because due to the fact that i have an alternate biological potential than the (assumed) vast majority of citizens in my country.
TLDR: it's not cool to assume that the way others' bodies work is identical to the way that yours does.
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