Profiles In Liberal Hypocricy

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Setanta, are you suggesting that using the term "neanderthal" as an insult, or as a descriptive term is somehow a misuse of the term?

However, Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens) are very similar anatomically -- so similar, in fact, that in 1964, it was proposed that Neanderthals are not even a separate species from modern humans, but that the two forms represent two subspecies: Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens.

Roxxxanne wrote:

Setanta wrote:

I cannot understand why you keep associating Neanderthals with unpleasant behavior. There is no basis, in the archaeological record, to assume that the members of that hominid species were any more or less pleasant than any other hominid.

Really stupid metaphor. Usually, Neanderthals is slang for righties who live in the past.

You should go take care of your reallly, reallllly busy thread.
Hey, you got a poster on your last bit of nonsense, guess someone else has taken over the pity duty for me.

McGentrix wrote:

Setanta, are you suggesting that using the term "neanderthal" as an insult, or as a descriptive term is somehow a misuse of the term?

Yes, that is precisely what i am saying. It demonstrates an ignorance of homo neanderthalis which is equivalent to the uninformed attitudes of people in the 19th century at the time of the discovery of the first Neanderthal remains. That individual has since been identified as a middle-aged sufferer of severe arthritis, and the myth of Neanderthal a hunched, lumbering, un-graceful and hulking ignoramus was long ago dispelled. Reputable paeleoanthropologists now believe that homo neanderthalis was not in fact a separate species, and has survived in the modern human genome through interbreeding with homo sapiens sapiens.
Au contraire, my little friend, I didn't have to do a web search for neanderthal, that species is right here on a2k every day, expressing himself with grunts & snorts, spitting & drooling. Anybody with an ounce of perception can see it.
Here' have a napkin.
Thinking that Neanderthal is a plausible insult is evidence of ignorance, which is why i have said as much.

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However, Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens) are very similar anatomically -- so similar, in fact, that in 1964, it was proposed that Neanderthals are not even a separate species from modern humans, but that the two forms represent two subspecies: Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens.

LSM was sufficiently clever to have done a web search for Neanderthal, but sufficiently ill-informed to have simply copied the first line of a Wikipedia search result, which states that Neanderthal are a separate species. As the quote above shows, this is not a universally held opinion. There is no evidence from the fossil record that Neanderthals were stupid (they in fact had a larger brain case, although that is not evidence of intelligence, either--but they were sophisticated tool-makers and -users).

The source for the quote above is the Smithsonian Institution.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Roxxxanne wrote:

Setanta wrote:

I cannot understand why you keep associating Neanderthals with unpleasant behavior. There is no basis, in the archaeological record, to assume that the members of that hominid species were any more or less pleasant than any other hominid.

Really stupid metaphor. Usually, Neanderthals is slang for righties who live in the past.

You should go take care of your reallly, reallllly busy thread.
Hey, you got a poster on your last bit of nonsense, guess someone else has taken over the pity duty for me.

LSM is bragging that his threads get more hits than mine. OMFG, how vapid is one's life to care about somethng like who gets more hits on their threads? Of course, about 30% of LSM are his own, and another 60% consistst of people telling him how insipid his opinions are.

LoneStarMadam wrote:

Roxxxanne wrote:

Setanta wrote:

I cannot understand why you keep associating Neanderthals with unpleasant behavior. There is no basis, in the archaeological record, to assume that the members of that hominid species were any more or less pleasant than any other hominid.

Really stupid metaphor. Usually, Neanderthals is slang for righties who live in the past.

You should go take care of your reallly, reallllly busy thread.
Hey, you got a poster on your last bit of nonsense, guess someone else has taken over the pity duty for me.

LSM is bragging that his threads get more hits than mine. OMFG, how vapid is one's life to care about somethng like who gets more hits on their threads? Of course, about 30% of LSM are his own, and another 60% consistst of people telling him how insipid his opinions are.

Thinking that Neanderthal is a plausible insult is evidence of ignorance, which is why i have said as much.

LSM, when you quote Roxxxanne, you make my use of filters pointless. Please stop.

Setanta wrote:

Thinking that Neanderthal is a plausible insult is evidence of ignorance, which is why i have said as much.

So if I said you look like a Neanderthal, is it safe to assume you would take no offense?

McGentrix wrote:

Setanta, are you suggesting that using the term "neanderthal" as an insult, or as a descriptive term is somehow a misuse of the term?

Yes, that is precisely what i am saying. It demonstrates an ignorance of homo neanderthalis which is equivalent to the uninformed attitudes of people in the 19th century at the time of the discovery of the first Neanderthal remains. That individual has since been identified as a middle-aged sufferer of severe arthritis, and the myth of Neanderthal a hunched, lumbering, un-graceful and hulking ignoramus was long ago dispelled. Reputable paeleoanthropologists now believe that homo neanderthalis was not in fact a separate species, and has survived in the modern human genome through interbreeding with homo sapiens sapiens.

Thinking that Neanderthal is a plausible insult is evidence of ignorance, which is why i have said as much.

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However, Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens) are very similar anatomically -- so similar, in fact, that in 1964, it was proposed that Neanderthals are not even a separate species from modern humans, but that the two forms represent two subspecies: Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens.

LSM was sufficiently clever to have done a web search for Neanderthal, but sufficiently ill-informed to have simply copied the first line of a Wikipedia search result, which states that Neanderthal are a separate species. As the quote above shows, this is not a universally held opinion. There is no evidence from the fossil record that Neanderthals were stupid (they in fact had a larger brain case, although that is not evidence of intelligence, either--but they were sophisticated tool-makers and -users).

The source for the quote above is the Smithsonian Institution.

I told ya, he was busy as a little bee lookin stuff up. lol

Mysteryman:

By the way, I ahve already given LoneStarMadam a list of leftist partisan websites I wouldn't expect her to take seriously, or bother to rebut. Please note what I wrote previously in this very thread:

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Newsmax, CNS and WorldNetDaily are partisan rags which give only one side of the story-their "news" articles might as well be labelled editorials. I don't ask LoneStarMadam to rebut Democratic Underground or Daily Kos-I have the right to expect her to reciprocate and not expect rebuttal for NewsMax, WorldNetDaily, etc.

By the way, Mysteryman, I wrote this in the post right before the one you quoted-how did you miss it?

LSM,

Who are you talking about? McG?

I frankly don't give a rat's ass what you believe, McG.

I reacted as i did because this is not the first time i've seen this member post that "Neanderthal" crap. I tire of her ignorance and her vicious behavior--so i commented on it. If that's a problem for you, it's your problem, and not mine.