Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman

[SoCaliGirl]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/morgan-freeman-wormhole-season-7-924225

 

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[Donnadogsoth]

Is there more than just bipedalism in humans?  Could some humans naturally walk on four limbs?  Cue clips of feral children raised by wolves.  And what about tripedalists:  people who deeply feel the need to walk with a cane?  Or monopedalists, people compelled by amputation to hop on one foot everywhere?

[Mister Mister]

No.  DNA has two strands, and in sexed species, one strand comes from each sex.  In mammals, one sex impregnates the other, who carries the offspring to term. 

 

The fact that there are some rare anomalies and gray areas, doesn't invalidate the basic biological concept of sex.  Nor does the fact that a duck-billed platypus exist, invalidate the concept of birds and mammals.  Postmodernists want to use people who have illnesses as an excuse to push their idea that "gender is a social construct", that any standards of truth, morality, family, etc. are oppressive.

[RamynKing]

I liked when morgan freeman said we need to stop calling people black and white. It's insane to me that modern people even see these as useful terms still. It seems insanely counter productive to race relations at the very least.

 

I'm familiar with the arguments that white people are not allowed to seek color-blindness. But It seems like a no-brainer that people would have naturally stopped using such inaccurate and basically toxic terms by now.

[Donnadogsoth]

I liked when morgan freeman said we need to stop calling people black and white. It's insane to me that modern people even see these as useful terms still. It seems insanely counter productive to race relations at the very least.

 

I'm familiar with the arguments that white people are not allowed to seek color-blindness. But It seems like a no-brainer that people would have naturally stopped using such inaccurate and basically toxic terms by now.

 

Could it be that racial terminology exists because races exist, and attempts to smother such terminology by seemingly-well-meaning commentators like Mr. Freeman are really de facto ways of helping eliminate one of the races in a manner possibly unheard of in history:  to exterminate a people while denying they exist?

[RamynKing]

Could it be that racial terminology exists because races exist, and attempts to smother such terminology by seemingly-well-meaning commentators like Mr. Freeman are really de facto ways of helping eliminate one of the races in a manner possibly unheard of in history:  to exterminate a people while denying they exist?

Hmm, I'm having trouble following you. How would using more accurate terms when referring to people have the effect of eliminating one of the races?

 

And to clarify, I'm not suggesting we bend to politically correct whims. I have little interest in describing people however they prefer to be described, generally. That's an emotional thing.

 

I want to be as accurate as possible as much of the time as i can. So it makes sense to me to start to tighten up things like "black" and "white." Obviously there are times when you would just want to say black or white, like talking to the cops, for the sake of brevity in our times.

 

But those terms say a bit of extraneous information that has become annoying to me. "Black" has an off connotation. And "white" has one of purity. And in terms of color tone, the terms are, of course, laughable. So other than conforming to our times, the terms don't seem to have much use.