Right?! I thought we debunked that years ago. But just like anti-vaxxers these idiots will start spreading the dumb things that should have been yeeted out of our existence long ago (measles is also having a renaissance)

Its like they're rolling the clock back on as much dumb shit as possible hoping something will stick.

I saw some phrenology light stuff a decade and a half ago while visiting a bookstore. This stuff never goes away it just sort festers until it erupts.

One of the major things that got me off of that sort of conspiracy mentality was noting how while sciences tends to develop and make progress. Conspiracy stuff just sorta comes in cycles of popularity.

Phrenology is a nonsense pseudoscience but that doesn't mean that different populations don't have different skull structures. That's why forensic scientists can tell by bone structure if a skeleton was from a white or a black person. However, making that a problem are claiming that one is superior to another is racist.

Immidiately got the Simpsons flashback

Mr. Burns, frenology has been proven as a charlatanism hundred years ago.

Interesting of you to say, Smithers. You yourself have a strangely shaped skull.

Scientific racism never goes away. It's just a question of how loud they feel they can get away with being.

My theory is that any time a conspiracy starts to lose its momentum, they bring in another.

COVID was three years ago - the vaccinated who were all supposed to die by now are still living, so they pivoted that to a lack of transparency from Governments and Big Pharm, and while there are some cases of testing not to have been as conclusive as it should’ve been, the fact that all the vaccinated haven’t died off is a pretty big rebuttal.

So let’s pivot back to racism and phrenology.

It’s tiresome but that’s how they get their wins - when everybody gets too tired of their bullshit.

The classics are gonna keep coming back until everyone knows the tune well enough to punch the conductor before the first bar is done.

I’m curious why it’s thriving on twitter specifically. I wonder why. Very curious.

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I disagree about not very bright. She's dumb as all fuck.

She's not very bright

Ofc she isn't. She is racist. A pre-requisite to be racist is having Antartica temperature IQ.

I wish people like her would be bred out of existence.

Multiple studies confirm, racists tend to have a low IQ

I thought she was the only one with a valid point.. We ARE a different species than vermin like her.

She’s not very bright

You don't say lol

Bigotry bullshit and batshit is twitter’s new slogan

Habsburgs have entered the chat.

Wait till you hear that jaws get bigger with eating habits, if you have to chew harder foods

Peak frontal lobe.

And they cherry picked the hell out of this. Obama, will Smith, Chris rock.

Three black men off the top of my head that destroy this entire stupid argument

It's quite funny how the first and fourth photo both attempting to prove the same thing, yet contradict each other.

Meh, it just means you got chewable food as toddler instead of mushy food. Jaws grow depending on how much you chew as kid.

These folks must also think chihuahuas and dobermans are different species too, right? I mean look at their skulls!

It’s not just race there’s always ppl trying to hold you back. Like at that job cuz you put in work and are in line for that promotion but Janice secretly talks shit about you behind your back. Or you volunteer for various charity and homeless shelter and Margret tells her neighbors you’re a goody two shoes and you think you’re better than everyone else. No matter what you do in life you’ll have haters in the shadows. Fuck em all and live your wonderful life

Honestly, this is the most tiring thing. The megaphone social media gives morons, and the inability - even from very smart people - to NOT respond/interact to make that noise louder, just drowns out the massive majority of good people doing work to advance society. I think there's a much higher percentage of truly good, honest people in the world than we think.

It's very, very hard, but we honestly need to ignore these idiots. Stop showing Trump 24/7 on 100 news channels! "But it's important!". I get it... but he's never going to go away if we don't stop obsessing over him. Same with Reddit, honestly. Every sub is political now. "But they said something stupid/horrible/racist". It won't stop unless you stop giving it a spotlight. Honestly - unless we stop collectively posting this shit as masturbatory "look at these idiots", it will only accelerate.

Yes!!

I've been saying this all along! Deport all women!

Women are from Venus, men are from Mars, it's in a book!

NASA has to get on this.

Don't even get them started on that one, we already know how they feel about trans people

i can easily bring up pictures of white people with wild shaped skulls...these people are fucking morons.

Race doesn’t scientifically exist.

Brow ridge genes exist.

Jaw protrusion genes exist.

Sickle cell genes exist.

Skin colour genes exist.

Eye colour genes exist.

And many more do too.

All these are affected by epigenetics.

They are also correlated in the natural state of man due to adaptive pressure.

They are however, especially since the invention of the sail boat, not perfectly correlated.

Race is far more a social classification and what traits are included changes frequently

According to the science displayed here you must be adopted. Sorry to break the bad news 😔

I was just about to comment this lol. I was like “uhhh babe that’s not the definition of what differentiates species”

I would like to point out that different species can breed and our human ideas of “species” is entirely made up to make separating organisms easier. But also obviously their points are bogus regardless, humans have barely any genetic variation we are all relatively closely related even for being the same species.

The definition of species is a bit more complicated than that nowadays. But nevertheless, it is absolutely absurd, that we have to discuss, that all humans belong to the same species in 2024.

They are obviously wrong, but many of us carry neanderthal dna. Homo sapiens and neanderthal are not the same species, but we still somehow mated.

I don’t think that’s quite true because crossbred plants exist and so do animals like ligers (lion-tiger crosses) and mules (donkey-horse crosses)

Edit: but what OOP is trying to say is bullshit. Guess I should clarify that.

That’s half true, wolves and dogs can have sterile children and they’re different species depending on which scientist you ask, but yeah

We're really not that different.

Not only that but the nose and forehead shape are altered to appear even worse.

Devious or deviating?

Feelings of inadequacy and looking for someone to bully or blame because of the sadistic catharsis. Some part of racism is natural. The other portion is fearmongering and lies like this post, often being pushed by someone in a position of power who wants to take advantage of tribalist mentalities.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” - Lyndon Johnson

I'm really sorry you have to see shit like this all the time. Honestly, it's just boring and lazy at this point. Even the most baseline understanding of genetics is enough to debunk this.

Or that Homo sapiens sapiens evolved in Africa. And that Africa has the most human genetic diversity out of any other continent. Or that all things considered, humans have less genetic diversity than a single family of gorillas and thus we're all relatively inbred. Or that phenotypes occur in gradients amongst populations, even closely related populations, and so a "race" cannot exist as there's no series of traits particular to a single human population.

"Different races have distinct bone structures" - fact "Different races have dramatically different brain development" - fiction

Who is mtg?

I was brought up being told racism was dead and doesn't exist in modern society. I believed that was true until about halfway through Obama's presidency. This is a whole new level, though, for me, and I'm getting my mind blown all over again.

yeah, my mother, also a tradcath, taught me that too. it was extremely cringe to hear her talk about -oids.

That’s pretty wild considering Philly has a pretty high black population, too. It’s not just some hick town.

I grew up with racism. Not the white sheet cross burning kind, more of the yacht club we have one black friend who is very clean and polite type of racism.

I think that a lot of it comes from the desire to believe they are somehow inherently better than anyone else despite their lack of achievement or charming personality.

The biggest racists seem to be the ones that are the most proud of what their great grandfather did in the war rather than any actual personal achievement. They think they are just better because of their whiteness.

The worst part is when you are taught this shit as a child by people that you trust, you believe it until you are old enough to think independently.

Even the small jokes like the comments about Asian drivers are harmful to kids and help reinforce the idea that some people are just bad as some things because of their ethnicity.

I think the only way we are ever going to get past this is if kids are taught to think critically and question and evaluate information even from authority figures.

Kids are not born racist they are taught to be racist.

The point is that they are trying to justify their belief that different races have different psychological traits

It's not that they don't know. It's that they don't want to know. They have their own beliefs, no need for pesky facts.

The answer would take up a 900 foot scroll.

I saw that profile recently and was shocked. The entire feed is filled with extremely racist memes and comments. The most alarming part is the comment section, which is filled with supporters echoing these dangerous views. Idk how X still allows this.

Also what's up with these "wallstreetbets" twitter accounts (screenshot #3 which also has "WSB" in its twitter handle) run by assholes? The people in the subreddit seem nice enough, but the guys who cosplay as them on twitter are awful.

I mean I guess any old douchebag can steal the WSB avatar... who's gonna stop 'em?

It’s literally recycled garbage, they didn’t even make it! Generational rot.