Having just returned from a week's holiday and now reading through this discussion, I'm alternately bemused and amused by the sheer amount of rubbish that's been posted. It seems that the racist contingent have been increasingly ridiculous, while the few brave souls who try to counter the hateful drivel that they post have been drawn into personal spiteful exchanges that don't reflect well on anybody.

If any OLO discussion demonstrates the wisdom of Mark Twain's dictum about refraining from arguing with fools, this thread would have to be it. I therefore won't contribute anything more beyond this post, other than to point out some of the more outstanding gems of ignorance.

I think the classic statement of contemporary racism comes from Efranke, who writes

<< Breeds of dogs are analogous to human races >>.

This little pearl of idiocy is compounded by the proudly ignorant CHERFUL/Sharkfin, who says

<< Efranke gave you the commonsense obvious answer >>

before launching into an exposition of her idiosyncratic and ill-informed exposition about "tribalism".

Yes, 'race' and racism are commonsensical, which is why they persist in the absence of any scientific rationale. They are so commonsensical that their various exponents here redefine the concepts out of existence in order to accommodate their own deeply ingrained bigotry - which essentially reduces to 'my phenotype/ethnicity is best and all others are arranged hierarchically below mine'.

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If the odious ozzie isn't telling porkies about his/her profession, I have grave concerns about the quality of medical treatment meted out to any patient of theirs who is not 'white'.

I still have little idea of what Ngarmada is on about, beyond labelling everybody who diagrees with them as racist - quite erroneously in several cases, such as the obvious misinterpretation of blairbar's admittedly annoying banter. Indeed, I think that blairbar has most successfully illustrated the ridiculousness of 'racial' classification in this comment:

<< So Jayb my children belong to the Proto-Australoid/Causcasoid; Sub; Nordic, Aryan, Celtic race?
And as my children both married members of the Causcasoid; Sub; Nordic, Aryan, Celtic race, my grandchildren belong to the Proto-Australoid/Causcasoid; Sub; Nordic, Aryan, Celtic race/Causcasoid; Sub; Nordic, Aryan, Celtic race? >>

Unfortunately, nobody seems to have understood his point - perhaps because it was obscured by his puerile spat with Ngamarda, whose pompous language could obfuscate anything.

Anyway, see you all on another thread, no doubt.

P.S. I'm still chuckling about Ngarmada's "Neanderthal Gnome".

Prepare yourself CJ. I am sure that Ngarmada is busy preparing one of his mighty diatribes to launch against you. He completely destroyed me.

That CJ may only find literary errors to amuse him indicates the pompous prat he is.

I concur with blairbar, destroying him, ozzie, jayb, and the other classic racists I have had the pleasure of engaging on OLO, demonstrates such crippling dysfunction as attributed to their malaise, realises their despatching observed perfunctory of its ease.

Alike CJ, David is observed demonstrating the same colonially ignorantly callous nature, that realises they retain no integrity relevant to the issue of racism. That they are not the targets of such malevolence, they believe by making the right noises, that entitles them to engage the debate as a game. They attempt to impress they are above it all, when in fact they demonstrate they are classically colonially, morally and ethically bankrupt.

The nature of racism is identified as malevolent, and alike the malaise of a rabid dog, where it threatens the innocent, realistically you do not retain the privilege of attempting its retraining, you are obligated to put it down.

Of course if the source of the disease may be removed, that is the optimum outcome, although I suggest with the indifference demonstrated by duplicitous attitudes alike yours, it does not bode well for such potential. If such required action for adequate and appropriate response to such racist threat draws a bad press, my condolences your sanctimoniously moronic sensitivities are upset.

Alike 9/11 and Bali, you may finally alter such attitudes, when the conflict generated by such malevolent racists comes crashing through your doors.

Cherful, your comparative of instinct is inane. In many species the female gender are generally totally disinterested in sex other than when they come into season. That is instinct. Such regime may never be observed in humans simply owing to the fact we are able to reason such regime as anachronistic.

Comparably, humanity is observed a paradigm shift from the definition you describe. I think if I met you in the mosh pit of a Wolfmother concert, I would be truly scared.

CJ- welcome back, I thought you were awfully quiet.

You say- yes, race and racism are commonsensical which is why they persist in the absence of any scientific rationale.

For a moment I thought you had come to your senses and forgotten your strange theory about phenotype genetic flawed science, which I seem to remember you saying in a previous debate, meant that science had proven that race did not exist. ( I still must need glasses because I seem to see people of different races when I go out.) Then I realised that you were actually being sardonic. Or maybe a Freudian slip perhaps.

<So Jayb my children belong to the Proto-Australoid/Causcasoid Sub Nordic Aryan Celtic Race.>
Oh for heaven sake!
As Danny DeVito said to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Twins when Arnold said, "WE are Twins." " Oh Obviously!"

If civil war ever breaks out in America between the Africans and the Whites, the Whites can just shout out "don't kill me I'm Proto-Australoid/Causcasoid"
They'd say what the f---k are you talking about white boy.

One thing with academics they never let common sense get in the way of any of their so called scientific proofs as long as it backs up their attempts at social engineering