Scalping: just giving a bonehead an even closer shave, lol

Race, schmace. Seriously, talk about focusing on one pine needle and missing the whole freaking forest… WHAT was the point again? Oh yeah, learning about that which one fears in order to focus one’s concern more reasonably and practically and quit jumping at shadows.

The point is, while racism against folks from the Middle East and subcontinent enters into people’s Islamophobia EVEN THOUGH ALL THOSE PEOPLE DON’T TECHNICALLY QUALIFY AS A SINGLE RACE — it’s more of an “they ain’t us” mentality amongst the monosyllabic mouth-breathers, which is usually how racism works anyway — it’s only part of it, which is why I said racism isn’t quite the right word in this case.

Exactly.

The point is, while racism against folks from the Middle East and subcontinent enters into people’s Islamophobia EVEN THOUGH ALL THOSE PEOPLE DON’T TECHNICALLY QUALIFY AS A SINGLE RACE — it’s more of an “they ain’t us” mentality amongst the monosyllabic mouth-breathers, which is usually how racism works anyway — it’s only part of it, which is why I said racism isn’t quite the right word in this case.

Otherwise I have to assume it’s the voices in your own head.

Good guess, methinks.

Hardly. There are quantifiable differences between races. They attributes are both distinguishable and wonderful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28classification_of_human_beings%29

The term race or racial group usually refers to the categorization of humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics.[1] The physical features commonly seen as indicating race are salient visual traits such as skin color, cranial or facial features and hair texture.[1][2]

Conceptions of race, as well as specific ways of grouping races, vary by culture and over time, and are often controversial for scientific as well as social and political reasons. The controversy ultimately revolves around whether or not the socially constructed and perpetuated beliefs regarding race are biologically warranted; and the degree to which differences in ability and achievement are a product of inherited “racial” (i.e., genetic) traits.[3][4]

The term race is often used in taxonomy as a synonym for subspecies, in this sense human races are said not to exist, as taxonomically all humans are classified as the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens.[5] Many scientists have pointed out that traditional definitions of race are imprecise, arbitrary, have many exceptions, have many gradations, and that the numbers of races delineated vary according to the culture making the racial distinctions. Thus, those rejecting the notion of race typically do so on the grounds that such definitions and the categorizations which follow from them are contradicted by the results of genetic research.[6]

Today many scientists study human genotypic and phenotypic variation using concepts such as “population” and “clinal gradation”. Large parts of the academic community take the position that, while racial categories may be marked by sets of common phenotypic or genotypic traits, the popular idea of “race” is a social construct without base in scientific fact.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

After 9/11, nobody called for martial law. Nobody set W up as absolute dictator. So that doesn’t really apply. Never mind that the population is pretty jaded now and is prone to more skepticism about such things.

From people in the know.

“I’d point out that Obama’s approval rating (~46-48% and falling) is nowhere near high enough to have more than a handful of frightened folk clamoring for anything of the kind.”

What was W’s approval rating before 9/11? How about his dad’s appproval rating before Saddam invaded Kuwait? Look it up and get back to me.

I’d point out that Obama’s approval rating (~46-48% and falling) is nowhere near high enough to have more than a handful of frightened folk clamoring for anything of the kind.

Obama will not impose a full Marxist/Sharia fascist system until after there is a major crisis leading to martial law, such as a major terrorist attack, banking/dollar collapse, or epidemic outbreak on a large scale. Word is that will happen this winter, and then the frightened populace will clamor for Obama to become an absolute dictator.

Okay, so how exactly has he implemented anything resembling sharia law here? How exactly has he imposed any islamic influence on our government? I want specifics. Nationalized health care, while a horror all its own, is NOT islamic. Sending more soldiers (to fight WHOM?) is not islamic. So… help me out here, where has this supposed islamic/islamist influence crept in? And if none has crept in, if he is not the Mecca Candidate so many of you seem to think he is, then maybe — just maybe — that first amendment stuff about freedom of religion is okay after all…

Let’s take a look Ellison. What horrors of fundamentalist Islam has Keith Ellison perpetrated as one voice out of 500+ in Congress? Seriously.

So take a deep breath and take the time to learn something about what it is you fear. You may find that you aren’t nearly as fearful after that and you can actually sleep with the lights off.

Hardly. There are quantifiable differences between races. They attributes are both distinguishable and wonderful.
And yes, of course the number of alleged races has varied widely, just as the number of languages or types of math have-because we discover new ones.
Middle Eastern is not a race, it is a geographic connotation, nothing more.

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Wow what a pathetic attempt at slamming third party voters. Tell me are clowns like you still bitching about Ross Perot?

Dur hurr. His father was a Kenyan atheist who was raised Muslim. He went to a school that was predominantly Muslim, and then a Catholic one after that.

His step-father, who was Indonesian, was Muslim, but not at all religious.

But what do I know? I’m just a dhimmi apologist.

Hah, you got punked!

Obama is a secret Mohammetan whose real father was Indonesian, he was really born in Indonesia (not Hawaii) and was trained as a subversive Islamic terrorist in a radical madrassa.

We are already under the rule of radical Muslim terrorists like Obama and Ellison. This is not some hypothetical future nightmate, it is already happening.

This winter will see the collapse of the dollar, food shortages, bank collapses and starvation. Martial law will be installed with socialist people’s tribunals and Sharia law in America.

And since you did not vote for McCain-Palin, you are responsible for what is to come.