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re: Why is athletic superiority racist?
Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:05 am to FLBooGoTigs1
Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:05 am to FLBooGoTigs1
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Oriental
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Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:09 am to ChewyDante
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100% of the corner backs in the NFL
That's racist
We need to dig deeper into this problem
Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:12 am to saint amant steve
I was throwing all Tha Asians into one basket I do apologize for my mistake
Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:19 am to MontanaMax
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I'm just spitballing here but maybe it's a little more complicated than saying that one race is better at something than the other. Could it be that there are different ideals, pressures, circumstances (a number of things) that create someone who is better at one thing over the other and really doesn't have as much to do with race. But, what the hell of I know.
There are lots of variables in sociopolitical analysis. Race is just one. It doesn't have to always be viewed as the most significant. The problem is that people tend to lose their minds when race is even mentioned as being impactful and the issue devolves into a rhetorical dichotomy where race is portrayed as either the primary source of causality or completely irrelevant rather than simply being viewed as one of many variables of significance.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:24 am to ChewyDante
I mean it does make you wonder what slavery did to the gene pool of African Americans. Slaves were specifically selected to be athletic and productive workers.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:24 am to wolfonthebayou
Nowadays people get to chose what gender they want to be so you can chose what race you wanna be. It's your fault you suck at basketball and math.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:26 am to Blob Fish
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I mean it does make you wonder what slavery did to the gene pool of African Americans. Slaves were specifically selected to be athletic and productive workers.
I was about to type something very similar to this. The strongest and most fit were chosen to be slaves.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:27 am to wolfonthebayou
Anything that involves Blacks is racist.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 10:31 am to saint amant steve
the chinaman is not the issue here dude
Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:15 am to Blob Fish
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Slaves were specifically selected to be athletic
Athletic? What sports were slaves playing? I slept in on the day this was covered in American History.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:19 am to wolfonthebayou
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Bye now. Going to start chugging Miller High Life.
It's not even noon yet, maybe hold off on the firewater til lunch there kimosobi.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:39 am to wolfonthebayou
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This post was edited on 9/26/20 at 11:31 pm
Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:46 am to BayouBandit24
quote:cbs when they fired jimmy the greek in the 80's
Who claims that is racist?
Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:51 am to wolfonthebayou
Because then you will have a double standad. If athletic superiority is not racist, then neither is cognitive superiority.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:51 am to wolfonthebayou
I don't understand why the word Oriental is in any way racist unless you are fundamentally ignorant of word etymology. And in any way different than Asian.
Oriental means someone or something form the East vs Occidental which means someone or something from the West. Orient coming from the latin word to rise, so where the son rises.
Asia was originally the Greek word for the other side of the Aegean Sea and then cam to refer to those living in Anatolia and in the Persian Empire.
Oriental means someone or something form the East vs Occidental which means someone or something from the West. Orient coming from the latin word to rise, so where the son rises.
Asia was originally the Greek word for the other side of the Aegean Sea and then cam to refer to those living in Anatolia and in the Persian Empire.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 11:53 am to wolfonthebayou
because everything is racist
Posted on 1/14/17 at 12:00 pm to Blob Fish
Fast twitch muscles are genetic and West Africans and their descendents have high proportions. And my guess is that English, French, and other west Europeans tend to have lower proportions. So the apparent disparity is white Americans tending to be less athletic and black Americans more athletic when compared to much of the rest of the world.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 12:10 pm to ChewyDante
I absolutely think there's a physical difference that shows in specialty positions in the NFL. I wonder if the NBA is more a culture thing though. Would we see more whites if our children grasped onto the game as much as inner city blacks do? Just don't think the physical advantage is as big in basketball as it is in football. But, I never played basketball, so I could totally be wrong.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 12:15 pm to wolfonthebayou
Because it brings forward the idea that certain races are inferior in other categories, mainly intelligence. Even though study after study proves this out.
Posted on 1/14/17 at 12:16 pm to KG6
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Just don't think the physical advantage is as big in basketball as it is in football. But, I never played basketball, so I could totally be wrong.
It is. Played basketball my whole life. The thing is, the superstar black athletes tend to have a combination of size and mobility that you just don't see in others. Tall white guys that can shoot, pass, and rebound can definitely be found, but white guys that can be 6'6" and up and fly around the court like Kobe, Jordan, Lebron, etc. are virtually nonexistent.
Really, football offers less "athletic" types much greater opportunity than a game like basketball due to the Oline positions, QB, specialists, etc that don't require explosive mobility athleticism as much as others.
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