Radical
Been there, done that
Before you call me a leftist SJW whatever listen here... If you know your basic biology you 100% know that race is a social construct, check out the history of who is white cause over 100 years ago even Irish and Italian people weren't considered to be 'white'
We are a single species with a LOT of variation, and that variation tends to sort of "clump." Those clumps of traits come from populations breeding with each other and so they tend to cluster geographically, which then means they cluster culturally and linguistically. But there are NO hard lines between "races" because they are social, rather than scientific concepts. You can't "test" for race, definitions of who belongs to what race changes (again check out the history of who is white) and what forensic anthropologists are doing when they examine skeletons from the past is telling you what population the person most likely belonged to, based on a bunch of average metrics. So, unlike zebras and donkeys Race has no biological validity as a category, but variations in biology stemming from population dynamics absolutely exist, which is why different "races" have different rates of disease or why east africans are good at marathons etc. If we didn't have the social notion of race already, science would not be able to find it -- we are all just a product of various populations breeding within and among each other in different climates hence the skin tone
Just like some of you I was a hardcore qabilist and remember posting really extremist shit on forums, after years of doing this awful habit I began questioning my true intentions, was it worth it? Are my actions doing more harm than good? I started rationalizing these bigoted behaviors by telling myself I was only doing it for the "lols" and wasn't doing anything wrong as long as I didn't truly believe in my hateful rhetoric, trolling as you might call it.
But that idea started to crumble once I visited the homeland and witnessed first hand the love and compassion we still have for each other, that's when I decided it was enough and started treating somalis as one nation so I then extended that idea to humanity as well. Yes some people might not like the color of my skin but I won't fight them by turning into one of them, I'm doing this for the compassionate people like me out there who don't have such outdated views on society and I know the world is too much of a dark place to live with these ideas but at least I'll die knowing I'm no longer the hateful man I once was.
We are a single species with a LOT of variation, and that variation tends to sort of "clump." Those clumps of traits come from populations breeding with each other and so they tend to cluster geographically, which then means they cluster culturally and linguistically. But there are NO hard lines between "races" because they are social, rather than scientific concepts. You can't "test" for race, definitions of who belongs to what race changes (again check out the history of who is white) and what forensic anthropologists are doing when they examine skeletons from the past is telling you what population the person most likely belonged to, based on a bunch of average metrics. So, unlike zebras and donkeys Race has no biological validity as a category, but variations in biology stemming from population dynamics absolutely exist, which is why different "races" have different rates of disease or why east africans are good at marathons etc. If we didn't have the social notion of race already, science would not be able to find it -- we are all just a product of various populations breeding within and among each other in different climates hence the skin tone
Just like some of you I was a hardcore qabilist and remember posting really extremist shit on forums, after years of doing this awful habit I began questioning my true intentions, was it worth it? Are my actions doing more harm than good? I started rationalizing these bigoted behaviors by telling myself I was only doing it for the "lols" and wasn't doing anything wrong as long as I didn't truly believe in my hateful rhetoric, trolling as you might call it.
But that idea started to crumble once I visited the homeland and witnessed first hand the love and compassion we still have for each other, that's when I decided it was enough and started treating somalis as one nation so I then extended that idea to humanity as well. Yes some people might not like the color of my skin but I won't fight them by turning into one of them, I'm doing this for the compassionate people like me out there who don't have such outdated views on society and I know the world is too much of a dark place to live with these ideas but at least I'll die knowing I'm no longer the hateful man I once was.
