Happy new year

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Textbooks can be wild. My A&P textbook had a graphic showing the difference between Caucasian, Asian, and SSAfrican skulls. I was like: what the eugenics?

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      9 months ago

      We learned it in forensics and reconstructive cosmetology. The shape of the skull can often be used to determine race. I loathed having to list out the scientific names, because they’re not words you say nowadays.

    • theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz
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      9 months ago

      Pardon my ignorance, but aren’t the skulls often shaped a bit differently? If the textbook was just showing that and not saying something about one shape making a certain race superior, is that still a problem?

      Different races will often have little differences right? My favorite example is the gene variant ABCC11 that is extremely common in South Korea. It limits the production of odorous sweat by reducing the activity of apocrine glands. I think it also affects whether ear wax is wet or dry. I’m kind of jealous of that one and am waiting for CRISPR to be available for it. Well maybe not, but I’d at least think about it.

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      9 months ago

      Make sure to insist on a honeymoon in Germany as over here marriages under 16 get auto-divorced (16-18 a judge will decide) and you have a solid reason for asylum.

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      9 months ago

      That’s cute & all, but even if certain things happen to be correct, I don’t give a flying fuck what the people running Afghanistan have as laws of the land. They’re so fucked up. Just had a discussion on here, they’ve got all these laws, kill the homosexuals, homosexuals are just an abomination. But hey…there’s this powerful warlord or prominent man engaging in bacha bazi…ehhhhh, we’ll pretend that’s not happening. Maybe even join in. Gross hypocrisy.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        They’re so fucked up.

        That’s the point. The fucked up place has stricter rules on this fucked up thing than places in the US.

        That’s fucked up