Fwd: Re: Racism

From: panchakahq_at_LQesHqPqTN6oVa74JJRda7iyUuq-XSClZym4C03yb6cfAt4QHUrrDQZfvHM8WV7Du
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:13:56 -0700

For what it's worth, I AM a racist. It seems to me that Gloranthaphiles are biologically inferior. They've got thin skins that make them whiny and querulous, and have difficulty communicating with more advanced races because their noses are always full of indignant, teary snot. Also, they usually have severe neurological deficits which leave them trapped in early-adolescent emotional patterns of behavior -- comparable only to other extremely primitive peoples, like Tekumel fans.

Kim

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> From: "jeffkyer" <jakyer_at_R5G14VhzX_5qpISyVGj2v5UO6ktcmuKB3mBGCJzfQYXX1uwIlyVU7dOrl5aMI9K8Bty-p73gi1A.yahoo.invalid>
> --- In ImmoderateGloranthaQuest_at_yahoogroups.com, "kmnellist"
> <keithnellist_at_...> wrote:
>>
>> Just wanted to say that I wasn't disgusted or whatever by the
>> racism discussion. I think it is quite interesting, and a legacy
>> from the swords and sorcery of the 30's (see RE Howards "races"
>> evolving and devolving over the centuries), which are probably
>> themselves legacies from racial theories from the 19th century.
>>
>> Why they are interesting to Glorantha is that "race" (in the real
>> world) is a made up concept, to account for people looking
>> different. It doesn't really exist, but racial origins are very
>> often mythic - ethnic identity is a state of mind, it is what you
>> believe you are (or what you believe you are not) more than an
>> intrinsic part of you. There is very little genetic difference
>> between peoples, the small differences being that some just happen
>> to look different, have resistance to malaria, have longer legs,
>> have more subcutaneous fat, have slightly different eyelids, etc,
>> etc.
>>
>> Keith
>>
> The smug comment that Gloranthan writers are all racists or
> unconscious racists *might* have had something to do with it. Which
> means folks like Robin and Greg are either evil or too stupid to
> know they are evil. Jeff, as we already know, is evil and I am, of
> course both.
>
> Apparently, we haven't stopped beating our wives yet either. Classy.
>
> The tone of many of the posts was more than a little condescending
> and not terribly conducive to an actual discussion. Perhaps if
> there was less self-righteousness and "storming the barricades of
> injustice" we might have done better.
>
> Shades of frickin' Contracycle and the great "Heroquest is Sexist"
> rants.
>

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