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Divemaster
01-25-2017, 22:58
Ivy League diversity training starts on Day 1. If you don't indoctrinate them while they're wide-eyed and disoriented it's a missed opportunity.
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Diversity for the Sake of Democracy
written by Carrie Pritt
Published on January 24, 2017
“Stand up if you identify as Caucasian.”
The minister’s voice was solemn. I paused so that I wouldn’t be the first one standing, and then slowly rose to my feet. “Look at your community,” he said. I glanced around the auditorium obediently. The other students looked as uncomfortable as I felt, and as white. ¨Thank you,” the minister said finally. After we sat down, he went on to repeat the exercise for over an hour with different adjectives in place of “Caucasian”: black, wealthy, first-generation, socially conservative. Each time he introduced a new label, he paused so that a new group of students could stand and take note of one another. By the time he was finished, every member of Princeton University’s freshman class had been branded with a demographic.
This mandatory orientation event was designed to help us appreciate our diversity as a student body during the first week of classes. But what did it really accomplish? In compressing us into isolated communities based on our race, religion or gender, the minister belittled every other piece of our identities. He faced a crowd of singular young adults and essentially told them that their heritage outweighed their humanity. The message was clear: know your kind and stick to it. Don’t risk offending people from other backgrounds by trying to understand their worldviews.
Why were the university administrators, who speak so highly of diversity, choosing to strip us of our individuality? No doubt their intentions were good. In an effort to appear enlightened and progressive, they wanted to show their appreciation for the distinctions between various cultures. Unfortunately, this is hard to do without forcing members of each culture to assimilate to the most extreme stereotypes of their group. And so the administration chose to celebrate our cultural diversity as a student body, at the cost of our individual diversity as students.
Like many other schools, Princeton has become disturbingly homogeneous because of this phenomenon. Not only that, but the pressure to respect other groups on and off campus is pushing my generation into left-wing uniformity. We are encouraged to mind our own business by mimicking politically correct values without ever thinking them through on our own. No one questioned the students and faculty members who disrespectfully walked out of Charles Murray’s lecture hall after he was invited to speak on campus this winter.
My teachers and classmates openly referred to Trump’s voters as uneducated bigots throughout the election season, while taking any criticism of Clinton as an attack against women. Anyone who dares to voice a religious opinion is regarded as unintelligent. The fear of being called racist draws our attention to a black woman’s skin instead of her character, and the fear of being called homophobic emphasizes a gay man’s sexuality over his personality. We have been trained to tiptoe around each other and distribute trigger warnings with generosity.
We’ve forgotten how to look past the extremist values of the groups we identify with, and instead celebrate our nuanced differences as individuals. Walt Whitman wrote: “I am less the reminder of property or qualities, and more the reminder of life.”
The point of diversity is not that each culture is different, but that each person must live his own life and develop his own worldview. As Whitman eloquently noted, “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.” But instead of letting us travel it by ourselves, Princeton limits us by constantly pressuring us to behave and think like others in our demographic.
This concerns not only my university and others like it, but the future of our nation as a democracy. The less we respect our individuality, the more likely we are to blindly follow partisan values. This prompts an extremist us-vs-them mentality that builds barriers between Republicans and Democrats, African-Americans and Caucasians, and the wealthy and the poor. Because we’re afraid of considering any opinion that is foreign to our demographic, we can’t hear any voices except those that agree with us. This is especially true in light of the recent election. Trump’s supporters ask each other who could possibly trust Clinton, and Clinton’s supporters ask each other who would dare validate Trump; but neither group finds answers because of the wall between them.
Embracing our singularity would allow us to see past these walls and genuinely consider each other’s ideas. For the sake of democracy, we should take the spotlight off our various backgrounds and focus instead on our personal and idiosyncratic worldviews. Though our minds crave different knowledge, our bodies explore different feelings and our hearts beat to different rhythms, we all share the gift and burden of citizenship. There is a beautiful history of personal sacrifice in the relationship between diversity and democracy.
Diversity is the celebration of individuality and nonconformity, and democracy is most precious when it allows three hundred million individuals to reach a compromise out of love for their country. As Whitman wrote in his Democratic Vistas, “there is nothing grander… than a well-contested American national election.”
Let’s not lose sight of that grandeur.
Carrie Pritt is a freshman studying computer science at Princeton University.
Interesting that people who like to label folks use Native-American, African-American, Asian-American, etc etc etc but then use White or Caucasian for the evil ones.
So for the sake of unity if I can't be just an American I'll be Nortic-American.
Streck-Fu
01-26-2017, 06:04
My family is Germanic-Italian and southern Italian as well so there is a solid chance that I have African something in there as well. I can't prove it with my pants off but it may work as a middle finger to their diversity exercise.
The author should have stood every demographic.
I wonder if Princeton, like other universities is celebrating diversity by segregating students into demographic centric safe dorms?
My family is Germanic-Italian and southern Italian as well so there is a sold chance that I have African something in there as well.....
Most of my family tree traces back to Norway and D2, with much hair pulling and effort, traced one line of the family back to the mid 1300's. That's when Norsemen were still living in Greenland. (They have good records but the names are a bitch)
I'm sure with all the raiding and trading over the prior 500 years some interesting blood was added to the mix. Almost tempted to have one of those DNA tests done.
The exercise described in that article illustrates a continued effort at subtle (and not so subtle) erosion of our national identity as - Americans.
Americans are being divided - brainwashed through an academic vision of multiculturalism in which American exceptionalism has no place.
A nation divided cannot stand - and enemies of America (foreign and domestic) know this all too well.
Call me partisan Princeton...but if we must hyphenate...I relate to that of a proud-American ! Go F#$k yourself academia - with this continued division - it is not healthy for the country.
Badger52
01-26-2017, 10:59
I'm embracing the contempt.
E pluribus unum
That's why our national motto is translated "out of many, one."
To the multiculturalist it appears to be "out of one, many."
Lol, I'll try to embrace the contempt...
Sounds like a US version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Struggle Sessions......
....and similar to the Khmer Rouge liquidating people simply for wearing eyeglasses.
Utah Bob
01-29-2017, 11:10
I find it interesting that hyphenated designations always give "American"
second billing. I think that says a lot.
Monsoon65
02-09-2017, 18:16
I'm sure with all the raiding and trading over the prior 500 years some interesting blood was added to the mix. Almost tempted to have one of those DNA tests done.
Do it. You'll be surprised. I did it.
39% Irish (wow, big surprise). A lot of Northwestern European (Dutch, German, Danish).
And less that 1% North African. WTF?? Now who's side am I gonna take in the upcoming race war??
Power, Brothers. Stick it to Whitey.
Do it. You'll be surprised. I did it.
39% Irish (wow, big surprise). A lot of Northwestern European (Dutch, German, Danish).
And less that 1% North African. WTF?? Now who's side am I gonna take in the upcoming race war??
Power, Brothers. Stick it to Whitey.
The north African is almost certainly a byproduct of the Islamic invasions into Europe. One of your distant, distant relatives had surprise sex with a rampaging jihadi. :boohoo
One of your distant, distant relatives had surprise sex with a rampaging jihadi. :boohoo
So as not to offend, I believe todays PC term should be "struggle snuggle"..........
1% North African
Power, Brothers. Stick it to Whitey.
That's just fucking marvelous; now I have to put you on my ignore list.
Not because of your African Heritage, but because you identify as a "1 percenter"
Just when you think you know somebody...............................
Airbornelawyer
02-10-2017, 12:21
The north African is almost certainly a byproduct of the Islamic invasions into Europe. One of your distant, distant relatives had surprise sex with a rampaging jihadi. :boohoo
The definition of North Africa in these DNA tests actually covers almost the entire Mediterranean region. It can just as easily be a legacy of Roman soldiers settling in Gaul or Britain, or of Vandals or Visigoths who intermingled with the locals when they invaded the Roman Africa and then returned to Europe. Or a Sephardic Jewish ancestor. Or a Muslim soldier with some African ancestry in Ottoman service, who ended up in southeastern Europe and intermingled with other Europeans there. Or not an African at all, since as the map shows, the region includes southern Italy and Greece.
These DNA tests are a bit sketchy, and the commercials Ancestry are running really annoy me. "I thought I was German, turns out I'm X". From what I can tell, there are few haplogroups specific to Germans. So a German might show up as "Scandinavian" if his Saxon ancestors have more common DNA markers with Danes and other Scandinavian Germanic tribes than with German tribes that settled further south and intermingled with Celts and Romans, or tribes that settled further east or southeasy and intermingled with Slavs.
My DNA test does not have German listed at all, until you take a closer look at how broad the maps are. This is despite the fact that I can trace my genealogy of at least one branch of my family to the same village near Freiburg in Baden for as far back as records go (which is the Thirty Year's War, since many churches and their records were destroyed then). Otherwise, I am a typical American mutt (here's proof - my nose is cold) with mostly German, English, Scotch-Irish, Swedish and Croatian ancestry, though I am also a North African 1-percenter.
Does anyone have a good recommendation for what hyphenated groups I might be able to apply to ?
I am going through retirement transition and once I leave active duty, I will need a social group to identify with - I'm not sure if I want to identify as "veteran" because it sounds more and more like veterans are just a codename for patriarchal white male anglo-saxton hyper patriotic elitists and I just don't want to be painted by such a wide brush.
I thought of maybe trying to pull a Rachel Dolezal, but with blue eyes and freckles, I just don't think I can pull it off - all I know is that I have just about had it with all of this damn de-hyphenated social elitism.
I am ready to hyphenate !!!
...I tried them
I have too many of my original teeth.
Remington Raidr
02-10-2017, 13:04
...I tried them
I have too many of my original teeth.
VA dental can fix that!:D
bblhead672
02-10-2017, 14:02
Does anyone have a good recommendation for what hyphenated groups I might be able to apply to ?
I am ready to hyphenate !!!
American-American works for me.
The definition of North Africa in these DNA tests actually covers almost the entire Mediterranean region. It can just as easily be a legacy of Roman soldiers settling in Gaul or Britain, or of Vandals or Visigoths who intermingled with the locals when they invaded the Roman Africa and then returned to Europe. Or a Sephardic Jewish ancestor. Or a Muslim soldier with some African ancestry in Ottoman service, who ended up in southeastern Europe and intermingled with other Europeans there. Or not an African at all, since as the map shows, the region includes southern Italy and Greece.
These DNA tests are a bit sketchy, and the commercials Ancestry are running really annoy me. "I thought I was German, turns out I'm X". From what I can tell, there are few haplogroups specific to Germans. So a German might show up as "Scandinavian" if his Saxon ancestors have more common DNA markers with Danes and other Scandinavian Germanic tribes than with German tribes that settled further south and intermingled with Celts and Romans, or tribes that settled further east or southeasy and intermingled with Slavs.
My DNA test does not have German listed at all, until you take a closer look at how broad the maps are. This is despite the fact that I can trace my genealogy of at least one branch of my family to the same village near Freiburg in Baden for as far back as records go (which is the Thirty Year's War, since many churches and their records were destroyed then). Otherwise, I am a typical American mutt (here's proof - my nose is cold) with mostly German, English, Scotch-Irish, Swedish and Croatian ancestry, though I am also a North African 1-percenter.
Interesting, thanks for the info. I can trace my family back to the late 1600's in the Virginia colony, but there are no records from there that I can find. Based on the records, I'm of English extraction, but I'll be damned if I know where exactly. I am sure there is something connecting to somewhere in Britain from the time frame, but other distant relatives who apparently have waaaaaay more time than I do have been unable to find a linkage to a specific place or English family line.
It doesn't help that they all spelled their own last name six different ways, with each person apparently flipping a coin on any given day to decide how he would spell it today. Makes forensic tracing pretty hard.
rubberneck
02-10-2017, 21:34
If Negroid and Mongoloid are considered racist than Caucasian should be as well. I identify with being an American of European descent.
Interesting, thanks for the info. I can trace my family back to the late 1600's in the Virginia colony, but there are no records from there that I can find. Based on the records, I'm of English extraction, but I'll be damned if I know where exactly. I am sure there is something connecting to somewhere in Britain from the time frame, but other distant relatives who apparently have waaaaaay more time than I do have been unable to find a linkage to a specific place or English family line.
When our son was in 4th grade they were studying the American Revolution. They had an assignment to see if they had ancestors in that war. I knew that my mother and grandmother were in the DAR so I asked for their documents proving the connection. Coincidentally, the husband of a woman my wife worked with worked for a software company that produced or sold Family Tree Maker, at set of 6 CDs that compiled family histories. They were going online and dumped the CDs and my wife was given a free set.
My son entered the names my mother gave him and instantly had a printable family tree going back to the soldier in the war. Turns out that he was not in the Patriot Army or a militia, but was teamster hired by the Army when they were operating in his area. During that time he was involved in a battle and granted "soldier" status. While we were looking at all of this, my son notice that the record went back to 1620 and beyond. He found two sets of great (+) grand parents who were at Plymouth Village and that I later placed on the Mayflower. John Howland was one of my great grandfathers and his brother's line, in England, led to Winston Churchill. John's own line led to the Presidents Bush family and mine, they are my first cousins much removed. I'm equidistantly removed from John Howland as Prescott Bush so my son is on line with Bush 41.
It doesn't help that they all spelled their own last name six different ways, with each person apparently flipping a coin on any given day to decide how he would spell it today. Makes forensic tracing pretty hard.
I ran the same program for my father-in-law with, almost, no luck. Turned out that the males in his line, he and my brother-in-law included, always used their middle names. Once I figured that out I had much better luck but found no historical connection.
Pat
Monsoon65
02-10-2017, 22:17
He found two sets of great (+) grand parents who were at Plymouth Village and that I later placed on the Mayflower. John Howland was one of my great grandfathers and his brother's line, in England, led to Winston Churchill. John's own line led to the Presidents Bush family and mine, they are my first cousins much removed. I'm equidistantly removed from John Howland as Prescott Bush so my son is on line with Bush 41.
I know mine goes back to Elisabeth Tilley from the Mayflower. And probably about a million other people, too. They said she had 11 kids, so she really set up a franchise when she came to America.
Thanks for the DNA info, too. Yeah, I was suspecting Roman influence, considering that most seem to be from England/Wales/Ireland/Scotland. And the Danish is pretty interesting, because it's very intermingled with the Northern German.
And the real hoot was that some ancestor was born in the town about 12 KM up from the road from where I was stationed at in Germany. Princess Katherine of Kleve.
Yeah, I'm from royalty. My wife always says, "Wow, your family fell far!"
And the real hoot was that some ancestor was born in the town about 12 KM up from the road from where I was stationed at in Germany. Princess Katherine of Kleve.
I found out during my research that my family moved west in the early 1800s to Tennessee, and settled about 15 miles away from where I am living now. The town name is the same as my last name + "ville"... Which is pretty cool, because no one from my family (which is now mostly in Texas, going back to 1900ish) had any idea, and me being here is an accident. I actually went there and found some grave stones. Pretty cool.
I know mine goes back to Elisabeth Tilley from the Mayflower. And probably about a million other people, too.
Hi, cuz! She married John Howland. There are over 10,000 known living decedents from them. She was orphaned the first winter (I believed that her mother died enroute).They are on my maternal side and all of them had lots of children. Mostly because of the expected mortality rate, which didn't seem to effect them. My maternal grandmother is from a family of 10. One died early. I met all of the others.
Pat
The town name is the same as my last name + "ville"... Which is pretty cool,
Scooterville, TN. Very cool! :D ;)
Pat
Airbornelawyer
02-11-2017, 00:33
It used to be that around Presidential election time, an article would appear showing how a particular candidate was related to Queen Elizabeth II. I suppose the writers/editors thought it was a quaint human interest story, but also maybe a subtle indictment of American democracy. How we proclaimed equality, but elected these patrician elites.
The problem is, practically every American with even a drop of English or French blood is probably also distantly related to the British royal family. William the Conqueror's son Henry I had 3 legitimate children and 24 illegitimate ones, and his DNA runs thoughout England, Normandy and France. Elizabeth's own German ancestors through her father George VI were intermarried into numerous royal, ducal, princely and other houses in Germany and throughout Europe, and while German princes and princesses didn't normally marry commoners, there was enough intermarriage and illegitimacy that probably most Germans and German Americans are also distantly related.
And since most African-Americans have some European ancestry, typically English or French, it's not just white Americans who can claim a relationship with our royal cousins across the pond.
It used to be that around Presidential election time, an article would appear showing how a particular candidate was related to Queen Elizabeth II. I suppose the writers/editors thought it was a quaint human interest story, but also maybe a subtle indictment of American democracy. How we proclaimed equality, but elected these patrician elites.
The problem is, practically every American with even a drop of English or French blood is probably also distantly related to the British royal family. William the Conqueror's son Henry I had 3 legitimate children and 24 illegitimate ones, and his DNA runs thoughout England, Normandy and France. Elizabeth's own German ancestors through her father George VI were intermarried into numerous royal, ducal, princely and other houses in Germany and throughout Europe, and while German princes and princesses didn't normally marry commoners, there was enough intermarriage and illegitimacy that probably most Germans and German Americans are also distantly related.
And since most African-Americans have some European ancestry, typically English or French, it's not just white Americans who can claim a relationship with our royal cousins across the pond.
Even if Adam and Eve are just a myth, the genesis of human life started somewhere, so we are all directly related.
Pat, your long lost brother. ;)
GratefulCitizen
02-11-2017, 05:27
I am a Noahic-American (descendent of Noah).
There are many who claim descent from some other critter that came off of the Ark (monkeys and such...).
Not going to argue with their claims.
:D
miclo18d
02-11-2017, 06:18
Does anyone have a good recommendation for what hyphenated groups I might be able to apply to ?
I am going through retirement transition and once I leave active duty, I will need a social group to identify with - I'm not sure if I want to identify as "veteran" because it sounds more and more like veterans are just a codename for patriarchal white male anglo-saxton hyper patriotic elitists and I just don't want to be painted by such a wide brush.
I thought of maybe trying to pull a Rachel Dolezal, but with blue eyes and freckles, I just don't think I can pull it off - all I know is that I have just about had it with all of this damn de-hyphenated social elitism.
I am ready to hyphenate !!!
Jade-Helm-American
Oppression-American
:D
Jade-Helm-American
Oppression-American
:D
Come on man, you know what happens on Jade Helm, stays on Jade Helm...
Monsoon65
02-11-2017, 16:47
Hi, cuz! She married John Howland. There are over 10,000 known living decedents from them. She was orphaned the first winter (I believed that her mother died enroute).They are on my maternal side and all of them had lots of children. Mostly because of the expected mortality rate, which didn't seem to effect them. My maternal grandmother is from a family of 10. One died early. I met all of the others.
Pat
Nice to meet you, Cuz!
Yeah, it's surprising about some ancestors. They always say what short lives they had, but a fair amount lived 70+ years and had a battalion of kids.
I was on Ancestry.com and when I was digging around there, found a 9x great grandmother named Rebecca Nurse. I was wondering where I heard that name before. Seems she died at Gallows Hill, Salem, MA.
Hung as a witch.
Nice to meet you, Cuz!
Yeah, it's surprising about some ancestors. They always say what short lives they had, but a fair amount lived 70+ years and had a battalion of kids.
I was on Ancestry.com and when I was digging around there, found a 9x great grandmother named Rebecca Nurse. I was wondering where I heard that name before. Seems she died at Gallows Hill, Salem, MA.
Hung as a witch.
The short life span that is always mentioned is the AVERAGE lifespan for all players, which includes infant and child mortality. Most kids died in earlier times. If you made it to adulthood, you would usually live nearly as long as people do now.
GratefulCitizen
02-11-2017, 18:28
The short life span that is always mentioned is the AVERAGE lifespan for all players, which includes infant and child mortality. Most kids died in earlier times. If you made it to adulthood, you would usually live nearly as long as people do now.
Given sufficient peace and food, human lifespan has been relatively consistent for at least the last 3000 years.
King David commented on it in Psalms 90:10, written about 3000 years ago:
"As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away."
(NASB)
Yeah, it's surprising about some ancestors. They always say what short lives they had, but a fair amount lived 70+ years and had a battalion of kids.
One of my grandmother's siblings mentioned above lived most of her life on Cheyenne Mountain in CO. I don't know if she ever married, but when I met her she was completely blind and one of her younger brothers was taking care of her. She still split her own wood but her brother had to do her shopping and chopping for her. She was 103 when she died and he was in his early 90s. He moved to our town in Oklahoma and married for the first time at 95 . . . and divorced at 96! :D
On Ancestry, follow the Tilly/Howland line to the Shields union and follow it to the Hughes marriage. Those are my maternal grandparent.
Cousin Pat.
1stindoor
02-13-2017, 06:46
I am white, can we get some type of identifier on the forum so we know who is what race? Screw all that brotherhood of the military and we are all one color----green bullshit it is time to divide up and start hating each other and I for one need to know who my fellow white folks are. Well least until I have my DNA done and may need to switch sides since I was adopted. :rolleyes:
Agreed!...From now on I'm going to self identify as SF-American.
I know mine goes back to Elisabeth Tilley from the Mayflower. And probably about a million other people, too. They said she had 11 kids, so she really set up a franchise when she came to America.
Thanks for the DNA info, too. Yeah, I was suspecting Roman influence, considering that most seem to be from England/Wales/Ireland/Scotland. And the Danish is pretty interesting, because it's very intermingled with the Northern German.
And the real hoot was that some ancestor was born in the town about 12 KM up from the road from where I was stationed at in Germany. Princess Katherine of Kleve.
Yeah, I'm from royalty. My wife always says, "Wow, your family fell far!"
My maternal Grandmothers side of the family goes back to Edward Doty on the Mayflower. Most of his kids lived into their 50-60's as I recall. After about the mid-1700's many made it to their 60-70's and further into the 1800's you start seeing people living into their 70's and 80's.
That is pretty much true across both families adopted and biological. The big exception is the Irish folks on my paternal side a lot of whom died in their 50-60's and recent generations are topping out in their 70's
My maternal Grandmother lived to be 96, she had 14 siblings 2 of whom are still living at ages 87 and 85.
Life spans for Males in my adopted family fathers paternal line have averaged about 76 years from as far back I anyone can find which is 1754.
I was surprised at the size of the families and their spans, it far exceeded what I imagined. Of all the surprises the age of some wives back in the day was shocking.......15 years old in several cases including my Great-Grandmother who married a 30 year old man! Another thing I found of interest was the number of women who died in child birth.
And somethings never change........young girls marrying wealthy old men.
rsdengler
02-13-2017, 12:17
Does anyone have a good recommendation for what hyphenated groups I might be able to apply to ?
I am going through retirement transition and once I leave active duty, I will need a social group to identify with - I'm not sure if I want to identify as "veteran" because it sounds more and more like veterans are just a codename for patriarchal white male anglo-saxton hyper patriotic elitists and I just don't want to be painted by such a wide brush.
I thought of maybe trying to pull a Rachel Dolezal, but with blue eyes and freckles, I just don't think I can pull it off - all I know is that I have just about had it with all of this damn de-hyphenated social elitism.
I am ready to hyphenate !!!
Well, I was going to invite you to hyphenate" into my social group...MBB (Menopausal B**tch Brigade) but I don't think you would fit in at this time. One moment we are "Honey, what do you want me to do for you", and the next moment "Honey, I just feel like punching you in the face"...kind of like Linda Blair in the Exorcist...one moment nice & sweet, the next cursing like the devil...:) Na, you may want to stick to another group...LOL :)
rsdengler
02-13-2017, 13:21
As long as he feels like a menopausal woman on the inside it does not matter what plumbing he has. You really need to keep up. :p
LOL....Man, you are right I do need to keep up....Sorry Billy, if you want to join because you feel like a "Menopausal Woman on the inside", that is fine with me.....just stay away from my clothes...:)
I looked in my 1952 Crayola Color Box and found my identity: I am "Crayola-Flesh". Whew! Thank goodness for Crayola!
Well, I was going to invite you to hyphenate" into my social group...MBB (Menopausal B**tch Brigade) but I don't think you would fit in at this time. One moment we are "Honey, what do you want me to do for you", and the next moment "Honey, I just feel like punching you in the face"...kind of like Linda Blair in the Exorcist...one moment nice & sweet, the next cursing like the devil...:) Na, you may want to stick to another group...LOL :)
I am very upset that you would dare to assume my gender identification.
I am also somewhat put off that you seem to have arbitrarily dismissed me out of pocket by suggesting that I just "stick to another group."
The passive aggressive way you feigned willingness to accept me into your social group only so you could overtly deny entry "cut me deep" and makes me very sad.
I am going to petition the owners of this website to create a "safe area" on the boards for those occasions when people like me are wronged by people like you.
I'm thinking 'The Soapbox' might be perfect - someplace where I can be preachy and self-righteous with little or no repercussions.
I am freaking out here.
...you probably voted for Trump
rsdengler
02-13-2017, 17:47
I am very upset that you would dare to assume my gender identification.
I am also somewhat put off that you seem to have arbitrarily dismissed me out of pocket by suggesting that I just "stick to another group."
The passive aggressive way you feigned willingness to accept me into your social group only so you could overtly deny entry "cut me deep" and makes me very sad.
I am going to petition the owners of this website to create a "safe area" on the boards for those occasions when people like me are wronged by people like you.
I'm thinking 'The Soapbox' might be perfect - someplace where I can be preachy and self-righteous with little or no repercussions.
I am freaking out here.
...you probably voted for Trump
LOL...too funny...I did somewhat rescind and invited you to join my social group...I don't want to deny you entry into any group (especially the MBB based on my assumptions about your gender) You would just have to pass a few tests....and you still cannot have my clothes......The first test....do you feel like you display emotions like a light switch? Off....On...Off...On.....think carefully...LOL! And please don't be sad....:) you might make a great addition to the group.....;)
Old Dog New Trick
02-13-2017, 18:40
Even if Adam and Eve are just a myth, the genesis of human life started somewhere, so we are all directly related.
Pat, your long lost brother. ;)
Hey Pat, you could be my brother from another mother but I suspect our father cheated on Eve before she was manufactured from genetic bone marrow stem cells meant to cause a feminist rift between the totally gorgeous fiery hot red-head with superior white skin and muscle tone that my mother Lilith had.
After that my family history gets totally crazy with inbreeding and a nomadic lifestyle that traveled several continents going south for the winter and returning to lush farmlands in the north during summer solstice. There was this one time some dude named Attila came through our village and raped every woman of child bearing age and then just disappeared. My uncle Alexander LI (pronounced Lee) told me about is cousin Geneghis has done something similar after his father Alexander III had tried to conquer the world. Lots of all night parties, orgies, and so much drinking no one remembers much and names were forgotten, misspelled or non-legible due to bad quality quills and runny ink on human canvas.
The families broke up after that some moved to the south where the sun changed their pigmentation after several severe sun burns and others moved east and west by foot and homemade boats. It seemed for me that my ancestors all started to look like the foods they ate or the amount of sunlight they were exposed to.
Hell, I don't even know what box I'm supposed to check on a job application or census report so I just check "OTHER" they don't have one for "White European of Spanish Descent - Not Hispanic" but I'm pretty sure my great great great great uncle Ferdinand Magellan and his half-brother Vasco da Gama (still pissed off that that f_cking Spaniard Christopher Columbus got credit for finding the new world first) that his crews still did what horny men do after a long cruise at sea - screw everyone they can both literally and figuratively.
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After that my family history gets totally crazy with inbreeding and a nomadic lifestyle that traveled several continents going south for the winter and returning to lush farmlands in the north during summer solstice. There was this one time some dude named Attila came through our village and raped every woman of child bearing age and then just disappeared. My uncle Alexander LI (pronounced Lee) told me about is cousin Geneghis has done something similar after his father Alexander III had tried to conquer the world. Lots of all night parties, orgies, and so much drinking no one remembers much and names were forgotten, misspelled or non-legible due to bad quality quills and runny ink on human canvas.
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Imagine the family reunion! :eek: :D
Pat