But the issue here, to me, is that we’re not talking about Cupcakke posting about her eating disorder; we’re talking about her - a celebrity, who presumably has many young and impressionable followers, many of whom are black - essentially advocating for a potentially harmful, medically unproven diet that could cause…

“rather than naming the truth: it’s racist medical providers like her who are killing us.”

Is that something that actually happens or an interpretation?

State-sponsored political assassinations are nothing new. Trump did this to distract from his impeachment and sadly, was correct not to fear much blowback beyond the outrage of American celebrities and the tut-tutting of various global leaders. Suleimani was a war criminal whose worst transgressions were not against…

Sadly it’s got nothing to do with cool heads prevailing in Iran. Their strategy has always been about driving asymmetrical warfare and empowering their proxies across the Muslim world to pursue their geopolitical goals. This will continue. There was only a miniscule chance that the Iranian regime would respond with…

Obviously you’re unfamiliar with the history of Anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East. Plenty of ugly history on that front in the US, but it rather obviously pales in comparison with the several-thousand-year history of pogroms, persecution, and other forms of oppression meted out against Jews in both Christian…

Wow this is what you came here to say? Nice. 

Or else, neither of these absolutist “all x are bad” premises are sufficiently nuanced to be taken seriously.

This may be true to a degree, but the ideology of the extremist elements of this movement explicitly condemns Jews and white people, first and foremost — there are plenty of others they hate though, that’s true.

Unfortunately, the Chinese government is currently quite popular with the Chinese people. 

Obviously not. This is a stupid article. The idea that this North African man is too light skinned to play a person who was presumably representative of the ancient population of the Levant is beyond idiotic. It’s as though no one actually pays attention to what people from that part of the world look like in order to…

Not to mention the woman is Indian, looks Indian, and has an extremely common surname among South Indian Christians, which is unsurprising, because she’s from Hyderabad.

Respect your opinion but history is pretty clear that humans, especially male humans with power, are toxic and dangerous. Rape and murder and oppression all existed before white supremacy. 

I’ll probably catch flak for this, but I’m being genuine, not trying to stir the pot: The guy was referring to the wife of the person who essentially called him a sellout on IG - that’s fucked up, but it’s not the same as what this article implies. IF he was referring to black women generally, that would grounds for…

The logical leaps you are making, in spite of what we know was happening in these societies on a relatively widespread basis, are really remarkable. You realize how long it takes for a body to be mummified? Or do you think they were merely refrigerating their recently dead children for use in these rituals as-needed?

Yes, that’s correct and what I am saying. 

Also, not once did I say I thought the babies were sacrificed. That’s possible, obviously, but the implication is that the helmets were sourced - through sacrifice or other means - in response to the death of these infants; the article states they had “wild” spirits that potentially needed guidance in the next life.…

Neither the article nor the author of the paper go to “considerable” lengths to argue against the possibility of child sacrifice. That is false. The article says “there is no evidence in this instance” but immediately goes on to reference the fact that this was a common practice in this area at this time.

No doubt. But skull doesn’t necessarily encompass head, as it refers to the underlying structure. I wasn’t trying to be pedantic. But without reading the article it can seem like people were taking skulls and putting them on the heads of these dead infants. Really it seems they were taking a relatively freshly dead…

We’re not talking about the use of the word fleshed to refer to the state of these head-helmets’ state of decomposition - as we would be when referencing mummies or bog bodies. We’re talking about the state they were in when they were affixed — they were fleshed, as opposed to being skeletal when they were fashioned…