Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Race Science'

Re:Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Rac... by tptacek on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @01:43AM (#46791848)

I have no idea what you're talking about or who you're arguing with. You brought up the "cold winter theory". "Cold winter" is very funny. It's just a very funny theory put forth by a huckster white supremacist. Where do you hope to go from there?

Whatever the rest of these arguments are, I'm not invested enough in this thread to drag this out.

Cold winters. Tell it to the Abbasids! I guess some of them had kind of cold winters sometimes? Maybe that explains it.

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Re:Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Rac... by hubber on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:58PM (#46803574)

It's a shame you couldn't follow along. Perhaps your ancestors' Winters were too comfortable.

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Re:Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Rac... by tptacek on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:04PM (#46803642)

My illiterate ancestors were beating the shit out of each other in cold northern Europe while hot-clime civilizations were inventing algebra. Can't say enough how funny the cold winter theory is.

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Re:Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Rac... by hubber on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:33PM (#46805012)

Intergenerational concussion? That's a new one.

You're so caught up on "the cold winter theory". I'm telling you that you can completely let it go. It's one (pretty good) theory to explain one selection pressure that may have contributed to some of the aggregate divergence we see across races.

Even if you started with two seperate genetically-identical groups in identical environments, over enough generations you would expect at least some variation to emerge due to random chance (accidental deaths, mate selection, DNA recombination, cultural practices, etc). That is the point I would like you to take away from this exchange.

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Re:Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Rac... by tptacek on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @09:37PM (#46805041)

it's a pretty good theory! I'm losing it. Where do you think written language came from?

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