RE: Stephen Hawking boycotts Israeli academic conference
May 13, 2013 at 12:53 am
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2013 at 1:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It started with no such thing. Just because it happens doesn't mean it's okay, or that I'm on-board with it, something which I explicitly stated when I mentioned that I wouldn't have supported any formation of Israel personally.
You mistakenly thought that there were no examples, it's difficult to find examples of populations which haven't displaced some other group. You tried with a meager two, one of which was a bad call on your part (the other I know nothing about). I gave you one that I assumed was common knowledge, one that covered the largest continent on earth, on that dated back to the early holocene, one that bottlenecked us genetically and profoundly (I even got the do some damage to the myth of the noble savage while I was at it- and farmers as "first peoples"). Two of which direct from peer review. You were unclear on what displacement is, and how often it occurs, and that's okay.
Now you're just asking me to provide what has already been given. I'm happy to continue (mostly because 4 examples in such a vast period of time barely scratches the surface), but not until you can at least muster up the courtesy to acknowledge whats already been offered. Probably deserves it's own thread, as it's wildly off topic.
I think that you just wanted to call something Zionist, personally.
That's all you feel like responding to, from that entire post btw? I guess I'm gonna dial back the effort on this end......
You mistakenly thought that there were no examples, it's difficult to find examples of populations which haven't displaced some other group. You tried with a meager two, one of which was a bad call on your part (the other I know nothing about). I gave you one that I assumed was common knowledge, one that covered the largest continent on earth, on that dated back to the early holocene, one that bottlenecked us genetically and profoundly (I even got the do some damage to the myth of the noble savage while I was at it- and farmers as "first peoples"). Two of which direct from peer review. You were unclear on what displacement is, and how often it occurs, and that's okay.
Now you're just asking me to provide what has already been given. I'm happy to continue (mostly because 4 examples in such a vast period of time barely scratches the surface), but not until you can at least muster up the courtesy to acknowledge whats already been offered. Probably deserves it's own thread, as it's wildly off topic.
I think that you just wanted to call something Zionist, personally.
That's all you feel like responding to, from that entire post btw? I guess I'm gonna dial back the effort on this end......
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