285 thoughts on “Who Is Special, And Who Is Not: The Fluid Concepts Of Race, Gender, And Privilege”

1. I just want to leave this here:
   Go on, gentlemen…

2. I just wanted to leave this here:

   1. She would have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for those…

      1. Pesky kids.

      2. Meddling Parents.

      3. Goyim!

   2. Excellent article…i often think that you are free to tick any ethnicity you feel like ticking. A company or organisation has no right to question what you tick. By ticking black it would help a company or government department meet its ethnic quotas. Will we have the government create a body to investigate your race?
      Also if the uk for example offered citizenship to any people of uk descent who resided in the usa, australia, canada or new zealand and south africa the political correct movement would say it is racist and discriminating against other people in those countries that were not white.
      The key to understanding all this is down to who is automatically given victim status. Those with victim status can claim benefits (blacks, jews, women, muslims, gays, transexuals) . Those without victim status cant. (White hetero sexual males being the weakest to claim victim status).
      Amazing Spain giving jews the right to return goes against the arguement that some black guy off the boat somalia – once given british citizenship – is as british as a white guy with generations of ancestors who helped build the country.
      Personally i have always argued that a rat born in a stable is not a horse just because where he is born. He will always be a rat. And the horse a horse whether its born in the stable or not. Thats how i view any somalian, black or muslim who happened to be a ‘lucky rat’ and born inside a western country (the stable) and then thinks he is a thorough bred horse.
      .

      1. In my country of origin I know a friend who half Sri Lankan on fathers side and a blonde haired white mother(think Elizabeth Warren claiming Indian heritage). The mother’s side has aboriginal heritage. While he is dark and had a flattish wide nose and ticks the aboriginal box gaining free entry to pretty much anything he wants without having any of the affect of ever facing persecution bar maybe the occasional joke with mates about how he is More UN heritage than aboriginal. s i can only see these Michael Jackson type issues expanding. The left has already come out attacking those within the left who draw comparisons to transexuals. More this is intellectual suicide. They have been telling people that race is fluid and dynamic and when people try and change the skin they were born with they flip out.

         1. “They have been telling people that race is fluid and dynamic and when people try and change the skin they were born with they flip out.”
            Race is fluid and dynamic because it is a social construct is just the “All Animals are equal” law of Animal Farm. The pigs would flip out if the cows and chickens claimed they were ducks (so as avoid milk/egg production quotas) or, worst of all, if they claimed they were pigs. They’d encourage the draft horse Boxer to have an unnatural relationship with the donkey Benjamin though.

      2. Jews are part of the “protected” class in Western Civilisation. Other members include bankers and employees of certain other industries.

   3. And I would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling parents and siblings of mine!

   4. I once worked a with a white woman who claimed to be Native American. I was dubious because she was… well, white. When I enquired she admitted that her Great Grandmother was Native American.
      …
      On another occasion, I met a white woman from Spain who came to America and began taking advantage of minority programs set up for Hispanics! She did not see the irony that these people she identified with were essentially the survivors of the people her country crushed and slaughtered during their conquests.

      1. See my other post. I’m a “white hispanic” and this has been going on for years. I saw a post once in a school even, during “Hispanic” Heritage month that was a biography of Cortez! LOL. The guy who slaughtered all the “Indios”

         1. “See my other post. I’m a ‘white hispanic’ and this has been going on for years. I saw a post once in a school even, during ‘Hispanic’ Heritage month that was a biography of Cortez! LOL. The guy who slaughtered all the ‘Indios’ ”
            Cortez would be Hispanic (culturally and/or racially Spanish outside Spain). Indios wouldn’t be.
            Never let Hispanics “white guilt” you into immigration and other policies that primarily benefit Hispanics at the expense of other Americans.
            http://a57.foxnews.com/media2.foxnews.com/thumbnails/i/112114/780/438/RAW-FOXANDFRIENDSDOTCOM-54BMNFXA_FNC_112114_10-33.jpg

      2. ” I met a white woman from Spain who came to America and began taking advantage of minority programs set up for Hispanics!
         She did not see the irony that these people she identified with were
         essentially the survivors of the people her country crushed and
         slaughtered during their conquests.”
         Nope. In Mexico there was the indigenous Zapatista uprising only 20 years. The Mexicans and other Hispanics aren’t indigenous. They’re the product of the colonization, not the “victims.” Hispanic is just a broad cultural term that includes pure blooded Spanish European families.

      3. And there you go hahaha!

      4. Many whites with a very small fraction of aboriginal blood play that same angle. Can you blame them? It opens up fresh privilege in the job market and super low tax rates for many things, including no property tax at all. And best of all, if anyone complains about it, you can play the race card. I wish I could do it.

   5. stoner white kids keeping me down

3. who is that bald-headed guy with a wig in the top picture?

4. Leave Rachel Donezal alone!

5. If you’re a manager, you’re no doubt more than familiar with the sweaty palms and butterflies that come with having to deliver bad news. From a poor performance review to firing an employee, the most stressful conversations are those where you’re sure tears or anger will ensue.

   1. As an employer and manager… nothing terrifies me more than an interview with someone in a “protected class”. At any time they can say “you didn’t hire me because I’m [insert indignation here]”… and next thing you know you’re spending tens of thousands of dollars on legal bills.

6. Constraints imposed from Affirmative Action are forcing employers to find alternative ways to meet staffing needs.

7. More and more employers are examining race identity claims for truthfulness. Be sure to have evidence of your African heritage that you can show them during your interview.

   1. “Be sure to have evidence of your African heritage that you can show them during your interview.”
      I guess I could always pull down my pants.

   2. That is racist and patriarchal! A person is free to decide him/her/itself what he/she/it wants to be identified as! I, for example, am an armchair from the 16th century.

      1. Yeah. If they investigate that’s when I sue. I guess there is a difference between claiming to be from an ethnic group rather than just trans-identifying.

8. Just a few weeks ago, Louis CK did a sketch on SNL where he plays a white guy imitating a sassy black woman for 5 years to keep his job.
   http://www.mediaite.com/tv/snls-louis-ck-manages-to-speak-like-a-black-woman-for-five-years/

9. Take one look at this woman, her side-show clown wig and orange skin fake tan. Astounding no one clued in and even her black husband didn’t say a thing. Go on YouTube and watch the raw video of her being shown a picture of her father. She’s out of there quicker than looters at CVS.

   1. You sent me a msg about the Canadian tampon-tax a little while ago I think. I still can`t believe this is a real thing.
      

      1. 0:27 – A group called “the Canadian Menstruators”..
         I just don’t.. I.. okay… shit… I…. good luck out there, Kent…

      2. Don’t remember that but countering with the kleenex “sperm wipes” was spot on.

      3. Just roll your own, ladies

10. And she’s gone…”Rachel Dolezal resigns as leader of NAACP’s Spokane chapter”
    http://news.yahoo.com/rachel-dolezal-resigns-as-leader-from-naacp-spokane-chapter–160937684.html

    1. A tear came to my eye. Looks like the tear you get framing a house and hitting your thumb with a hammer before you say ing “Mutha Fukker!” but this tear is one of joy.
       Unless they play this out like she is a victim while completely ignoring the fact she lied about so many other things.

       1. Count on the victim, PTSD card. I also read that her incredibly white father “abused” her.

11. Just like social constructionism, identity fluidity is a form of retreat into relativism, or what the manosphere calls hamstering.
    It allows the insecure to escape standards and judgment, if not reality itself, then pardon their own deception through claims of compassion. This kind of behavior lends itself naturally to the female mind
    And it is precisely for this reason that societies should actively enforce standards and definitions, so that demographic units (and their subsequent roles) do not become muddled by a marginal number of freaks

    1. > It allows the insecure to escape standards and judgment,
       Precisely!
       (And also those less able to demonstrate factual value to society)

    2. You win the the thread with this observation.
       “It allows the insecure to escape standards and judgment, if not reality itself, then pardon their own deception through claims of compassion. ”

    3. Good points and it’s a sign of a decaying society. We (as men) need to call out this shit when we hear it or see it. I don’t care what community you came from growing up….a liar is a liar (white, black or other).
       Dolezal is a liar (it’s that simple) and she can no longer be trusted.
       That’s how it’s been and that’s how it always should be going forward.

12. Brilliant analysis Quintus. Well done. Perhaps Sephardic Jew descendants will stimulate Spain’s economy more than the descendants of Moors? Hmmmmmm

    1. If that’s the determination they made, fine. But why is no one talking about it? And why is one group held out as special, and the other not special?

       1. Oh no… you’ve busted them Quintus!

       2. because they’re management

13. It’s a cry for help.

    1. These are fucking awesome

       1. Leftist parody writes itself. Cut & paste. Cut & paste.

    2. Elmer!!!!

       1. Emerging from a long period of self-imposed silence.

    3. white oppression makes babies cry

    4. I wonder how many black can do that?
       I mean, imagine Akon trying to pass as a white man–yikes

14. I would like to note that the Jews haven’t been blowing up Spanish trains, and the Muslims have. Spain is simply being intelligent about this – the Jews would be an asset, and the Muslims are enemies. Why make it easier for your enemies to attack you by making them citizens?

    1. What about this question: how will anyone be able to show he or she is a descendant of an expelled Spanish Jew? And what percentage of “blood” qualifies? Who decides?
       I can imagine a whole army of scammers who want EU passports descending on Spain, claiming they are Jews, but are not.
       The same thing happened in Israel, from what I’ve read. There are a lot of Russians and Ukrainians settling there who have dubious Jewish credentials at best.
       My point is this: the opportunistic use of race, religion, and identity is now a force to be reckoned with.

       1. It is going to create chaos this scrambling to become part of a “group”. How does one prove they have jewish lineage?? Is there a blood test?? A questionnaire? Name at least 3 Woody Allen movies??

          1. Precisely.

       2. Exactly what I was thinking.. easy shortcut to getting a coveted EU passport.

       3. I’ve already said science and tech will make things more worse.
          A % of heritage by genetics studies to decide who gets what?
          Gimme a break

15. I think there are better examples to illustrate the folly of identity fluidity, as this one seems based on shaky moral grounds.
    Neither Jews or Muslims are native to Spain, why should they not have been expelled in the first place? Moors were invaders, no less. Bending back for these groups is not the solution. Muslim countries were right to expel the Christian Crusaders and their descendants, the same should apply here.

    1. Well…, When the Crusades happened those areas had only been muslim for about 50 years.

    2. In the year 600 there were no Muslim countries and the Levant and North Africa were Jewish and Christian. At the time of the Crusades, there was no Istanbul.
       The Crusaders were right to do their best to repel invasion. More so even than Spain was after 800 years of occupation.

       1. fair enough
          not really the point though – substitute any different scenario and there’s still no reason for an indigenous population to accommodate a foreign one, much less apologize to them

          1. And I made no complaint against the Spanish. I have lived in reconquered Andalusia and rather liked it, even though not being Catholic caused me some problems (this was under Franco).

    3. At least the Moors came as conquerers rather than friends.

    4. Except that those lands involved in the crusades were also conquered by the Arabs and were initially predominantly Christian orthodox and Syriac/Coptic.So western European crusader were somewhat right to help the Byzantine empire recover lost lands.

16. No the answers are easy and clear stop letting mental patients define their own reality.

17. Centuries to recover from the expulsion? The centuries after the expulsion heralded the golden age of spanish culture, wealth and power.

    1. Precisely.
       

    2. So very true. And the story behind the moor invasion and the jews participation in it need also to come out into the light. The Spanish monarchs knew very well what created a strong nation, and what destroyed it. Therefore they ordered anyone with a conflicting religion out.
       I wish Europe would do the same today.

       1. Europe has been doing that for as long as Europe has been Europe. Check your history.

    3. Sam Solomon tells it like it is.
       

    4. Spain’s move to fund Columbus was a brilliant move which brought great power and influence to the empire. There can be debate over how well Spain capitalized on its chance discovery of America though. Would a Spain that did not expel the Sephardic Jews and Moors have been better able to leverage the great wealth it pulled from the Americas?

       1. its actually a cautionary tale of a noveau riche state. In fairness Spain would probably have had better longer term finances with the jews in situ who would have been useful in managing monetary policy. Compare the British empire which did rather well

          1. The jewish and moorish traders who fled to the maghreb didn’t turn North Africa into economic superpowers. Spains problem is that they blew all thier money fighting everyone in Europe.

          2. it seems the influx of precious metal may also have contributed to inflation

          3. It wasn´t so much that they fought everyone in Europe, it was their position which guaranteed they had to fight the Turkish empire and its minions , hell-bent on conquering Europe for over 200. Had Spain relented and let itself be overwhelmed by the Turkish, the ignoramuses of England and other ingrate countries would have had to fight for their lives, for a change, against Islam on their own coasts and lands.

          4. A lot of those Spanish Jews moved to London…

          5. More accurately I would say that it contributed to a change in relative prices. I don’t think the influx of gold would have had a significantly depressing effect on the Spanish economy since gold is a good as well as a form of money.

          6. I don’t know that much about it, but I believe there’s an interesting fairly untold history there. Cromwell invited the jews back in after the english revolution I believe (he needed loans) but I think that may have been dutch jews – not sure but I imagine some of them may originally have been from spain. The late 17th to early 19th century was an interesting period for english finance in this respect

          7. There seems to have been something called the ‘price revolution’ at this time in europe. I need to read up on it more, but it seems the spanish economy became uncompetitive and that the availability of gold / silver was a part of that.

          8. I don’t know much about it either but I came across their graves once on a walk about East London.

          9. I have heard this idea but I understand it has been largely debunked. There is far more inflation in Spain today than ever existed during the Golden Age.

          10. jewish cemeteries are interesting. Stamford Hill?

          11. Yeah! Your are right, I descendant of some of those Jews who were expelled but my family turned back to Granada after make some business in UK during more than 400 years in the island.

          12. Whitechapel Road.

          13. Whitechapel? Must have been for the poorer jews. But then its close to the city so you never know who’s buried there

          14. The Jews re-entered England before Cromwell.

          15. You’re right, there seem to have been some around during Henry VII & Richard IVs time appearing in the historical record shortly after the battle of bosworth field and at least seven years prior to the expulsion of the jews from spain.
              

       2. Spain has been the sick man of Europe for a long time. That great power and influence were fleeting.

    5. It also must be emphasized that Christian crusades in Spain lasted for hundreds of years against the Moors. Islam was spread by a sword from Arabia to Persia to Africa to Spain. They were not in any way a European people. Leftist scum in academia would call this “colonialism” if perpetrated by western man. Let’s just stop pretending the Alhambra was a big university full of studious Muslims reading in a library. The left celebrates the events in history where native peoples violently expel western man.

       1. Western man is Native to SPain.Arab Muslims were the Imperialist colonizers!
          The reconquest was a glorious revenge that we all feel as Western Europeans descendant s for the humiliation of ceding European lands to the Arab conquerors.SPain and even north Africa was lost by the Visigoths,who superceded the Romans.
          One point about this article is thedescription of Spaniards being descended from Arabs…which is simply not true.some genetic influence.but most Spaniards are descended from the neo-lithic basque/celts.much like the rest of western Europe up to the Rhine.

          1. That explains the dark hair and skin of many of the Spanish.

          2. Dark skin?….I don’t know about that.
             Many western european s have dark features hence “black Irish”etc

          3. I do know about it because I spend a lot of time there. The black Irish are the descendents of Spanish shipwrecks.

          4. Yo tambien,y no solo por las Costa’s..they look the same as other western europeans…
             Descended from European neo-lithic settlers(Celtic/basque) and later Visigoths.
             Honestly they look as though they could be french/beligan/English.on the whole they are somewhat darker.
             To your point I’ve seen light skinned Punjabi women or Turkish Iranian and have thought well they could be Spanish.
             But by in large its not as if they look a lot different from other western Europeans,for the most part at least.
             To describe them as having Arabic/Moorish origins simply isn’t true.

          5. Isn’t true even though it is explained by historical fact? I am not sure who you mean by “they”. Lighted skinned Indians can be explained by mixing with the British or other light skinned peoples. I have known light skinned Indians who also have British ancestry.

             Descended from European neo-lithic settlers(Celtic/basque)…

             The Romans described the Celts as blonde. Blonde hair is rare in Spain.

             Honestly they look as though they could be …English….

             Only someone who knows neither English nor Spanish people would say something like this. A Spaniard sticks out like a sore thumb in England… because of his thick dark hair and dark skin.

             To describe them as having Arabic/Moorish origins simply isn’t true.

             This is daft. It is established historical fact that many Spaniards have Moorish and Arabic ancestry.

          6. Kasmiri/pathans are light skinned Indians.besides you do get light skinned Punjabiwithout western European parentage.
             The Romans? The Greeks first described the “keltoi”- and they are not blondes.
             Nor are their as many red heads.
             I walk past loads and I mean loads of spanish people and turn my head,when I hear thick Spanish being spoken…..they don’t stick out that much at all.(I’min the uUK
             It’s not daft,I recommend you find some evidence to support that assertion,Iexpect no more than 15-20% of people have aArab or berber origin
             I’ve lived in both places,we don’t look that different.

          7. Evidence? This guy is no Celt and he maintains that tan in the English sun.

          8. Well I was thinking of a study of some sort.
             But tbh he looks like he could be eEnglish.
             Plus,one word,JoeyeEssex…that c kid could be Spanish if you think about it.
             Anyway,in general,some Spaniards are darker than other Europeans in the north west compared to the south west.
             But the point is we all come the same western EuropeancCelticnneo-lithic stock….(basque)

          9. Rd this http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/mythsofbritishancestry

          10. Interesting but this suggests that the Celts in fact came from Asia. What does that say about your idea that Spanish people are European?

          11. The “black” Irish were the descendants of the survivors of the Spanish Armada that washed ashore after being shipwrecked in storms. so, your stating that they are a counter example of Spanish genetic heritage from the Moors is a flunk.

          12. 20% of Spaniards have some sort of Sephardic genetic legacy, while only 11% of them have moorish genetic heritage. The moors came and settled, but didn’t mix themselves with the locals that much. Not even the berbers, who even revolted against the Sultan several times. That continued to happen under chrstian rule, where the moors formed their own communities, not unlike the gypsies do today. And just like with the gypsies, some of them did end up mixing with the general population, but most just married within their community.
              http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/health/05iht-05genes.18425407.html

          13. Asia Minor.well it says that the rest of the Celtic western Europeans would be as equally as Asian.
              The first human settlers of Europe would have all technically arrived Asia

          14. A)dark Cornish too as well as the dark haired wWelsh,every single slithly swarthy Brit???? Is descended from ship wrecked Spanish Armada?
              What about swarthy Russel brand is he really Spanish too?
              B) No…obviously not,western Europeans from Britain Ireland France and Iberia up to the Rhine are from the same western European stock.
              The whole point about the Spanish being Arabs has been successfully dismissed by a commentator below with this article ..
              http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/health/05iht-05genes.18425407.html?referrer=
              Only 11% of ppl have Moorish ancestry.

          15. Flavio belisario’s article shows that not even many have Moorish ancestry 11%…less than I put it even.

          16. The Spaniards have a very light skin and European and Mediterranean people are like Italians, Greeks and a lot of Frenchs. Spaniards are also European Mediterranean people. We have no much blue eyes but we have a lot of very light brown eyes, green eyes and hazel eyes.

          17. The Armada survivor story is mostly a myth; only a handful survived the slaughter on the shoreline, if that. “Black Irish” is simply a term given to Irish with dark hair, which despite the stereotype of Irish being redheads, is quite common. The majority of Irish have brown or dark brown hair, with light eyes. These are traits inherited from prehistoric settlers who settled from the Atlantic seaboard before the Celts.

          18. Very light compared to a West African but not to a Brit.

          19. I can only suggest then that you lack the ability to see the more subtle differences between different ethic groups. The Spanish, Italians and Greeks etc. are known for the their dark hair and tanned complexions. The Swedes are known for their fair hair and light skins. I thought everybody could pick out these differences but you did say sometimes you are surprised when you hear people in England speaking Spanish so I guess this is not the case.

          20. Yeah Asia Minor is in Asia mate.

          21. In Spain there is more sun. The sun tan the people. If your skin is exposed to sun every day you will develope a sort of long term tan

          22. Yes but there is also a genetic component to it. Over thousands of years a lighter skinned people living in a hot and sunny environment would become darker.
              And we cannot discount the presence of dark-skinned Arabs in Spain for hundreds of years. Obviously, the descendents of these people are still in Spain and inter-breeding would spread the “darker skin” gene.

          23. There isn’t any evidence to state with any certainty that the term ‘Black Irish’ refers to those with Spanish ancestry. It is most likely a descriptive term for a physical characteristic.

          24. The Romans described differing colours and characteristics for the Celts. All the way from dark hair to ginger.

       2. Many of those tribes spreading Christianity in the Iberian Peninsula were descended from Germany, Gaul and Celtic regions. Before that, the Phoenicians (from the Middle East), the Greeks, the Carthaginians (from North Africa) and the Romans at various times controlled the Iberian Peninsula. The people living there now speak a Romance language that has nothing to do with the ancient Iberians. So I ask you, who are the native people of Spain?

          1. …the Romans spread/introduced Christianity. The hangover Visigoths kingdoms of the north eventually “reconquista” the lands colonised by the A-rab.

          2. True but the question remains. Who are the native people of Spain?

          3. Not arabic/north african muslims. That good enough for you? Also the Romans brought Christianity to Spain. Christianity is irrelevant. Why are white countries and only white countries open to all people through unrestrained immigration? If white people today moved in masses to Moracco and drowned out the current cultures and people you would shout “colonial oppression” and “genocide”. Why do you despise white people? Why are white people not allowed autonomy? Why can’t white people preserve their culture,civilization, and phenotype? Fuck your moral relativism I could give two shits about phoenicians and carthiginians they aren’t moving to Europe in masses in 2015.

          4. You’re an idiot.

          5. A little of each of these people who visited our land. But Spaniards are mostly Europeans it is ostensible if you see the faces, it are Europeans faces mostly and very few people like Cesc Fabregas are such as Arabs. But semitic people are courageous people and they have made some of the greatest civilisations. Egypto, Carthago, Phoenician, Babylon and Islamic Empire. A lot of Spaniards are proud of be descendant (in part) of these people.

          6. You are an afro-philiac beta. The rest of your posts on this thread determine that obvious fact. Fuck off back to your island englishcunt, if you really are English. I wouldn’t be surprised if you or your single mom’s babydaddy was a third-worlder with an English accent.

    6. That golden age lasted less than two centuries.

18. All these attempts at righting historical wrongs are nonsense unless it is actually compensating the person that the actual wrong was perpetrated against or his immediate descendants (his wife and children). As soon as we get away from that it becomes difficult to impossible to tell who should be a beneficiary. Otherwise, we start giving benefits to people who had nothing to do with what happened.
    The other point is that pretty much every group of people has suffered at the hands of some other group at some point. Should the Irish, Welsh, and Scots be compensated for their maltreatment by the English? Should the English be compensated for their maltreatment by the Romans? Should Israel be forced to compensate descendants of groups that they warred against in the Old Testament?

    1. > All these attempts at righting historical wrongs …
       You probably mean “All these attempts at wronging historical rights …”

    2. Grievance, by its very nature is a poorly defined and unquantifiable concept, which is exactly why the left loves it – An endless pit of moral outrage that can be twisted and prolonged to fit their liking
       This is why I contend that true justice can only be achieved in the near present, not through ancient and convoluted calculations of who is owed what

       1. You annoyed that Ghengis Khan put he whip and chain on the Han? The Han did stop all trade to Mongolia causing mass starvation which unified many tribal horse lords under one army. Who is at fault?I agree with your points however the Han much like the Jew tend to hold century old grudges. I think the Jews at some point( evidence pending) will try and bill the Egyptions for the pyramids.

          1. that is an accurate assessment, Asians do hold long grudges
             But it does not pertain to my point – Grudges are held for the sake of vengeance, not justice

    3. The irish, welsh and scots were compensated for their maltreatment.

       1. Yeah, because they fought for it.

          1. No it was given to them, they never fought for nothing.

          2. Okay you believe that, thousands of taigs, AOH, Fenians, IRB, IRA, White Boys, and Molly Maguires disagree.

          3. The IRA fought for the right to live in the UK? Sure you don’t have that completely backwards?

          4. They for the right not to live in the British Empire, look at Andrew Jackson.

       2. I would say that having their descendents living in a first world country such as the UK (despite its faults) rather than a third (or lower) world shithole such as the Peoples Democratic Republic of Antrim, Ayrshire or Carmarthenshire would be sufficient recompense for any ill treatment by the Crown.

          1. Don’t forget the US, during the Revolution the people who carried the fight were Scots-Irish. Look at Andrew Jackson.

    4. I’d say the Germans have a bone to pick with the Italians over that Roman conquest thing.

       1. And I’d say the Romans have a bone to pick with the Jews for getting blamed for the killing of Christ that they were forced to carry out on the Jews’ behalf.

          1. Yes, justice for the poor, occupying force.

          2. The Jews were blamed for the Crucifixion, not the Romans. They were finally forgiven by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011.

          3. Which “pope”? Ratzinger, come on please

          4. You have missed the point.

          5. And that is why the Apostles Creed said that Christ suffered under Pontius Pilate. A Roman. Christ advocated that citizens pay their taxes and tributes. But you how some groups are with parting with money…

          6. Benedict was an evil man. You could see it in his eyes. He looked like The Emperor in Star Wars.
             Before his election to papacy, he supposedly covered up Archdiocesan rape charges. Real stand up guy. Hope there’s a special place in Hell for those that that both divert due process and sabotage the Church.

          7. Mate I’m just giving you the facts. No need to get defensive over it. I’m only the messenger.

          8. It’s all good,bro. When I watch’Passion of the Christ’, that airways bothers me how the group integral to his torture and crucifixion hey off Scot free.
             But that’s all good. It was part of the plan.

          9. Well the Jews are still around but what happened to the Romans?

19. Championing diversity means showing a willingness to listen those from different socio-economic backgrounds.

20. More and more, applicants are expected to bring diversity to the table.

21. As if we needed more proof that mudsharks were as a whole batshit crazy.Maybe they give visual proof to the theory that male sperm stays inside a woman and changes her DNA.

22. “Can identity be manufactured?”
    lol it seems suddenly to be the entire western economy’s primary manufacturing product, like wool in the 18th century, except this is more like “wool over people’s eyes”.
    Re. the different treatment of jews and muslims it hard not to conclude that the bottom line is that they are simply not equal. Countries want jews because they are a financial elite, whereas muslims generally are not. I wasn’t actually aware that the muslims had been expelled from spain. The fate of jews in spain was certainly nasty though, particularly for those who converted but were tortured under the inquisition. I imagine there wasn’t much to chose between the jewish or muslim fate, but getting burnt to death was probably the worse option. Its amazing to think how catastrophic the consequences of spains policy at the time was. Arguably the creation of conversos was just as bad or a worse decision as the expulsions themselves.

23. A pertinent piece of history that elucidates the foreboding shadow of the near future due to this “fluidity”. The state defining these characteristics couldn’t possibly be a good thing.

24. I can think of two fairly logical reasons for not allowing expelled Moors back:
    1) The Moors came as conquerors to Spain. They did not merely emigrate as the Jews did. And while the Moors can claim that they were tolerant of Christianity, anyone familiar with Muslim rule can cough *Bullshit* as loudly as they please.
    2) Allowing Arabs claiming Moorish-Spanish heritage would be far more exploited than allowing Jews back. Any terrorist group worth its salt would be sending members in droves to get citizenship and free access to the European Union.
    By and large, Jews have a place they want to be (it’s called Israel), making the gesture on Spain’s part largely symbolic. It’s not a gesture they will want to extend to the Arabic world, however, symbolic or not.

    1. but how would you formally articulate such a discrimination, justified or not?

       1. The way Spain did. By offering citizenship to Jews, not Moors.
          Sometimes what you don’t say or offer on a topic can be more effective than stating the obvious and then going on defense.

          1. you’re confusing a pragmatic decision with the issue raised in the article, which is not who would you rather sleep with, jew or muslim, but how it is that in one breath western societies speak of egalitarianism and the equality of religions and peoples and in the next they engage in overtly discriminatory practice, without feeling the need to explain. Spain has every right to do this, but equally the fact that it will go unnoticed and uncommented upon beyond this article, is analogous to the double standards we as men suffer in a world which promotes gender equality only when it is convenient to the opposite sex. In other words the article has precious little to do with whether jews are the better deal, everything to do with double standards.

    2. I know some Spaniards, and they more or less agree with this view. The Moors came, (as usual) to seek and destroy. The Jews in this instance were settlers of no consequence to the Spanish.

    3. Agreed! They came conquered and can then fuck off.

25. Management commitment to Diversity empowers everyone!

    1. I’ve been looking for a good mop. Where did you find it?

       1. It’s the latest hairdo rage, called The Trans-Rachel.

          1. Says here it is a knot.
             Anyhow, she gave herself enough rope.

26. As a Person degreed in Psychology and someone who speaks publicly for pro men and against anti men groups, you only need to know one thing.
    This isnt news, this is just confirmation; This woman is a racist, sexist and now confirmed liar.
    If they are not you, they will likely never favor you, biology demonstrates in general, you stick with whats familiar, anyone can point out a small % exception, I always say when is the last time you saw lions hang out with zebras to chat about the weather.
    It isnt a a bad thing, only weak insecure societies try to make you feel that it is.
    Dont believe that hype.
    Be what you are, embrace it, strengthen it.

27. Well Quintus, you actually wrote about a topic some of us commenters refuse to comment on in your articles because of people you’ve banned for it in the past. However, just consider the possibility that a certain group that is in financial and media power is able to sway politics of foreign countries with its voodoo that they are the most important people on this planet and that all of history has wronged them and everyone else is a criminal but their own kind. Does it not surprise you to see this law being sort of bludgeoned into the media as another recompense and kneeling to the left for ancient bullshit? I am off Spanish descent, Christian, and I can attest that the power of control changes every now and then, thus is history. The Muslims are a tricky conundrum for the left to present to the uninformed stupid public, because they want to enforce the acceptance of all bullshit, yet it backfires when raging Islamic crazies start killing people, shattering their own machinations of this integration. If Spain makes it safe for asylum-seeking Sephardim (from whatever non-existent genocidal group that are still pursuing them to this day) then they will not offer the same to the muslims who have descended from Moors. This whole Christian Muslim Jew thing is rather annoying, but it seems to be the only way people can incite some kind of eternal longing to a tribe from wherever.
    There were more people in the beginning than those of the Abrahamic religions, and not all peoples accounted for belong to the modern day color spectrum. History is full of holes that you have to almost get verbal lineage from elders to patch them with. Holes that society has covered and erased and placed with lies. Trace your roots, take a leave, if you haven’t done so already, sometimes you will be amazed at what your family did hundreds of years ago, if not a thousand (I was only able to trace back to the Crusades).

    1. Good comment.
       I do take exception to one of your statements. No one has ever been banned here for expressing his ideas. What gets people banned is being rude, overly confrontational or disrespectful, or blatantly race-baiting. On the whole we’re extremely lax about moderation here, and you know this. The only people that get banned here are people who are totally out of control.
       As for your other points, I think they’re well said. We all know the reality. What I resent about the whole episode is the fact that Spanish Parliament is obviously pandering to special interests, and no one is bringing up some of the other relevant historical realities.

    2. Spain makes this offer at the same time as offering to pay back their bailout loans early https://uk.news.yahoo.com/spain-another-eu-bank-bailout-173141084.html#8lPCxgw, and just as Greece is being difficult with its creditors.
       Spain is consolidating its teachers’ pet position

28. We are already seeing all objective reality erased in the name political correctness. When people are required to complete forms with personal info, the phrasing is being revised in subtle ways. Instead of checking a box for male / female, its now “what gender do you identify with”. Same for race. Expect to see female sports to become dominated by biologically male athletes. White people claiming they are culturally black playing the race victim.

    1. yeah, when it comes to jewish comedy I prefer Seinfeld to identity politics

29. Be sure to remind your colleagues about your status as a Woman of Color (WOC).

30. I’m Spanish and I disagree extremely in the way you put down things. Neither Spaniards have arab blood (a lie only used here by multicultural endophobic leftists), neither we lost anything but cultural with the Muslim expulsion. The thing you must understand, is that muslims invaded us and occupied our land for eight centuries, and that our people bled too much for its freedom and glory with the new Empire. I won’t comment too much every point you state in your article, it just disgusts me how you treat us like monsters and Muslims like poor victims only to oppose to jews. The only truth is that jews didn’t make any harm besides religious dangers for a united catholic nation. Their expulsion could be unfair; Muslim expulsion was a need and an urge.
    I don’t deny any moment the great things Muslims did here, but the mere consideration made by you that we owe something to them is an offence to any spaniard that hasn’t lost his mind and remains loyal to his homeland and kind.
    We don’t owe nothing to the jews neither, but if I must chose, I take on the jews. At least they don’t rape you or steal you in your own streets… Anyway, all that thing of ‘proving ancestry’ is a joke, but spanish politcs have been a joke as well for decades.
    Seriously, I expect more of you when if you’re going to write about my country. Your articles of Lepanto and Don Quijot weren’t bad at all, you should keep that line.
    Sorry for my English by the way.

    1. The thing you must understand, is that muslims invaded us and occupied our land for eight centuries, and that our people bled too much for its freedom and glory
       Brilliant

    2. your national pride is understandable and forgiveable, although spain’s history is as controversial as any empire, but you seem to have missed the point, that whatever the reasons, fair or foul, one group is found to be more equal the another. Jews will more obviously assimilate, and bring finance and culture, but then taking such factors into account is still discriminatory

       1. My national pride forgiveable? Are you kidding?
          And yes, we have to be discriminatory and intolerant against those who threat and harm us.
          Do you know what it says?
          “We came in a boat, but you will scoot swimming from here”

          1. sorry to offend, but you do come across as very proud.
             at the risk of being a dullard I am not entirely sure what the boat saying means …. its sounds hostile
             and I would add you still ignore the moral of the story

          2. Well, my apologise if I seemed too proud, but I hate when people attacks my national feelings. I thought that you don’t use to do that in the USA, at least with your own national pride.
             As you may know, inmigrants from Africa come every day to Europe, some of them on large ships, and some of them in very small boats, that we call ‘Patera’. I didn’t know how to translate correctly.
             The thing is that the boat thing says that they came by boat, somehow it says that they’ll expell us and force us to get out by swimming.

          3. From UK actually, but certainly not attacking your national pride, merely pointing out that you were taking away the wrong message. Immigration is a big issue everywhere

          4. Well, I’m sorry about missing your country. And I know, soon we will have Captain Spain here, like in Sweden. There’s a political party from extreme left called ‘Podemos’ that probably will win the eleccions in September.
             Captain Spain is coming.

          5. interesting, I’d not heard of them. Seems that they are railing against “financial totalitarianism”. You think they are more Swedish model than greek?
             http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/31/podemos-revolution-radical-academics-changed-european-politics

          6. They are kinda economically Greek and the rest Swedish.

          7. My condolences to Spain.

          8. Yes… we’re fucked.

          9. wrong way round, if you have to choose those two

          10. Where Are you based,I was in andalucia for years,this new wave of immigration is unlike anytI’ve seen before

          11. Okay I do not support immigration.but I don’t know if you are very young.but Spainhas had economic crisis,and has essentially already been fucked for years.”right” parties are no good for the economy ,which is why unemploymentwill stay low.
              I would prefer parties like marine le pen in fFrance.

          12. I know arabic and the red sentence on the sticker means simply nothing. just a bunch of arabic characters gathered randomly 😉

          13. Si gana podemos lo mejor sera dejar el pais antes de que nos encarcelen por disidencia politica o de que conviertan esto en un antro feminista, pero a donde ir? Esa es la cuestion

          14. El cartel ese es una farsa de Democracia Nacional ni si quiera llegaron a currarse la parte en arabe

          15. De todos modos, ¿me vas a decir que no hay moros que piensan así?

          16. Lo pone en el Coran hay algunas suras que dan miedo http://movil.religionenlibertad.com/articulo_rel.asp?idarticulo=24411
              Esto no es falso recuerdo que mi padre tiene un Coran en algun sitio con todas esas suras o similares subrayadas

    3. I didn’t read that the author is promoting the idea that descendants of Jews and Arabs should be given Spanish passports. From what I read he is pointing to the idiocy of the new law in Spain and that if they provide the Jews with passports then why not the Arabs too as they suffered a much worse fate and in much larger numbers at the time?
       The whole idea just shows how far politics has fallen to placate silly people.

       1. I didn’t criticise that, but the idea of the author that we owe something to Muslims. As I said, we don’t owe nothing to Arabs or Jews. But you can’t compare both neither.

          1. Maybe its lost in translation, I don’t want to put words in the authors mouth but I think he is in agreement with you i.e. Spain doesn’t owe anything to either group…..

          2. And I’m with him in that point, the thing is that he makes a balance where the Muslims should be more benefited that the Jews in case we should owe something to them, and he went too far defending that by saying some things.

          3. that’s very far from what I understood. The issue is one of a double standard that might be legitimate from some points of view, but not from a leftist / multi-cultural one – i.e. from within the dominant paradigm which is creating all the absurdity in the first place

          4. Oh, sure, you’re right. But the thing is that this law is aproved by a ‘right’ political party. Actually, Spanish leftism is quite antisemithic, for all that stuff in Palestine you know…

          5. anti-israel or specifically anti-semitic? Your podemos as I point out below doesn’t like financial totalitarianism. That can mean either anti-capitalism or anti-zionism/semitism, depending on analysis

          6. Yes, it is anti-capitalism and anti-israel. Don’t think it is anti-zionism.
             I really think they’re just a bunch of fools that have been indoctrinated in all the zionist stuff (feminism, multiculturalism…) but are not at their service.

          7. I’m not saying you owe them anything. I’m pointing out the idiocy of the new law. The argument is know as a “reductio ad absurdam.”

          8. it says influenced by laclau & moffe – the essex school. Interesting but pure poison

          9. Yes, I know you used a ”reductio ad absurdum”, and this is my latest response:
             “And I’m with him in that point, the thing is that he makes a balance where the Muslims should be more benefited that the Jews in case we should owe something to them, and he went too far defending that by saying some things.”

          10. Conyo Podemos are way better than ciadanos or PP.a cesspit of corruption,allowing society to be dismantled by the banks,as mortgage repossessions mount.And lets not forget one of the worst under 30 unemployment rates in Europe all thanks to PP sanctioned troika austerity.

          11. Podemos is just the same shit or even worst, they defend femminism, multiculturality, and communism. I already said that they are like a Greek-Swedish fusion. Can’t understand yet how a white heterosexual man can vote for them.

          12. Seriously? Podemos are the only party who support protecting the people from the banks.supporting employment,increasing spending to support the economy.public banking,socialised housing…I dont know how anyone who works for a living would want support any other party.sSpain has had an awful economy,thanks to los bancos y LA crisis de immobileria.real reform is needed,as well as changes to the monetary situation to prevent getting trapped by national debt due to the euro like greece.
              I guess you’re a bit younger than my generation,but don’t you want better than just living with your parents until you are 35,, and earning less than a milerista.
              I don’t know about multiculturalism or feminismbut it’s time for economic changes

          13. “Podemos are the only party who support protecting the people from the banks.supporting employment,increasing spending to support the economy.public banking,socialised housing…I dont know how anyone who works for a living would want support any other party”
              Who is going to protect the people from Podemos? Where do you think they are going to generate the tax confiscations to fund all that lavish welfare you just listed? Those working will be out of a job or taking home even less, so not sure how anyone who works for a living would want them.

          14. A)they are not shy about using debt jubillees to assist residents at risk of foreclosure…..did you know at present in Spain borrowers are still liable for loans even after having had their property removed!
              B) taxes should be on stocks of wealth like land and other assets and off flows like income and consumption
              C)taxes can be placed on private monopolies and the rentier sector.
              D)dead weight taxes like income taxes (from low to middle) can be reduced whilst they government pursues increased deficit spending facilitated by a cooperative central bank.this spending should be increased to pick up the slack demand in the economy.
              E) “lavish welfare” such as public banks and increased social housing ,is more cost effective for the economy as a whole as it is in the public sector,and both of them are still self financing.

          15. Podemos=Venezuela. Venezuela = 🙂

    4. “endophobic”
       Interesting word. Mind if I steal it?

       1. Not at all.
          In fact, I thought that this word was created in the anglosphere…

    5. You need to hear the bad as well as the good.
       I’m an admirer of Spain, and you know that. No one has written here about Spain with more sympathy than I have.
       But you need to hear some realities as well.
       Arabic culture exerted a tremendous influence on Al-Andalus (Andalusia). They were there for 800 years and the influence is in genes. It’s in the architecture, it’s in the food, it’s in the music, in the musical instruments, it’s in everything.
       Why is it so hard for you to admit this? Many Spaniards are in denial.
       It isn’t a source of shame, but of strength. I see it as a good thing, whereas you see it as a bad thing.
       The greatness of Spain lies in the fact that it was a fusion of several cultures.
       Don’t be trapped by sectarian thinking. Spain is greater than that.

       1. I think you misunderstood me. As I said, I don’t shame about our cultural heritage, but you said some things that are wrong, as the genetic heritage. You said that this gave us ‘our zeal and our passion’. Well, you should know that long before we were like that, remember the two hundred years that Rome needed to submit Spain, as well as the emperors and soldiers we gave to the Empire. There was no mixing between christians and Muslims because of the spirit of ‘Cristiano Viejo’ (Old Christian) and the honour it represented among the lower and upper classes.
          You also missed in that Isabella betrayed the Muslims and her word, as the Muslims revolted in Grenade before their expulsion while Talavera (a friend of Muslims) was the archbishop of the city, and that motivated their expulsion (or voluntary conversion) under the menace that they could be a danger again in the future. In fact, Isabella fought as she could against the expulsion of the Jews and the Muslims, as well as the Inquisition (that also has a black legend behind)
          And I think you missed something more, but I should read again your article. It is nothing personal, it just annoys me that unfair treatment.

          1. ” There was no mixing between christians and Muslims because of the spirit of ‘Cristiano Viejo’ (Old Christian) and the honour it represented among the lower and upper classes.”
             Wait what? You do not need to go that low–800 hundred years, and you think there was no mixing? even the white slave owners in the US couldn’t keep their dong in their pants-vice versa-and what? you think spain is some sort of expcetion to human biology?

          2. In Spain the admixture was not as extreme as many Anglos and other Europeans think. The reason is simple, all Muslim were mixed (Spanish woman+Muslim man=muslim children, muslim woman+christian man=muslim children (husband had to convert to even consider banging a muslim chick otherwise…I hope he didn´t like his head that much or he can outrun his in-laws)) however that was not the case with the Old Christians, many of them isolated in the mountains, not all Spain was conquered, and those in the cities treated as 5th class citizens (dhimmitude is the only “tolerance” the Islam can afford) thus their “sex appeal” for many women was reduced. For this reason even today most Spaniards are pretty much different from Arabs, they can easily be distinguished from them, exceptions notwithstanding (the people in Granada for example).

          3. That’s a bit irrelevant–I was responding to someone who said there was “NO” mixing between the Moors, and the Spaniards–
             I mean how can one deny this? It’s basic history–
             http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/science/05genes.html?_r=0

          4. WelL lets be real…..they don’t even look Arab in granada.

          5. Well, obviously I didn’t mean in absolute terms, don’t take it so seriously. I just said that the mixing was minimum and it was from conversions mainly, as it was a matter of honour to keep ‘christian’ blood. It is for this that Spanish people isn’t diferent from the rest of Europe (just the classical mediterranean traits) and we don’t have nothing in common with arabs or jews.
             Studies and articles can say what they want, some of them say we don’t have nothing of arab blood and some of them say we are half-moors. The truth is as simple as I said. I also thing Untergang07 has clearly explained all.
             Anyway, you can see it by coming to Spain and watching with your own eyes if we are moor or not.

          6. There was mixing, but not much; modern genetic studies have found only ~11% of Spaniards have moorish ancestry. It’s not only the Cristiano Viejo sentiment; it’s also the other way around; the conquest of Spain only brought an arab elite (and converted the local visogothic aristocracy) and some berber populations that repopulated the farmland.
             Neither of them intermingled with the base hispanorroman population, just as the Visigoths hadn’t, and even as the aristocracy wouldn’t in the future. Not even the berbers, who also kept to their own communities. Think of the gypsies, who have been in Europe for around 400 years already, but whose impact in the genetic pool of the non-gypsy Europe is minimal. There was some mixing, but it was not the norm.

          7. You keep saying you don’t mean things in absolute terms, but yet are using absolutes–
             “and we don’t have NOTHING in common with arabs or jews.” (emphasis mine)–
             You’re losing me again–don’t use absolutes if that’s not what you are referring to–
             I’ve been to Spain–I’ve lived in France as well–I am not American if that is what you were assuming–
             I met many SPaniards if they were to come to the US–their classification would be black, or african descent–not caucasian–when I was in France I met many French–who were Algerians–yet were denying any ancestry of Algerian blood–hey if it makes you sleep better at night–keep believing that you are holy pure–

          8. In Granada there are not much Arab genome. Much more gypsy genome unfortunately. Source: I live in Granada

          9. Those Spaniards you met are from new inmigration waves, there’s no way a typical Spaniard would be black or african descendent.
             And if you sleep better thinking that we are half-moors I’m also happy for you.

       2. The Moors were Black.

          1. Nope.north African Berbers, led by Arabs. from Arabia.

          2. Go look the meaning of Moor.Then look up Pictures of the Moors.Then look up “Books like Golden Age of the Moors” and “The Story of the Moors and in Spain” come back to me.

          3. Looked up wiki…https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors. Lots of references to the moors being of Arabor berber descent.
             The pictures provided depict semetic/berber/aArab types as well.

          4. I even looked this uphttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/Spain/37223-h/37223-h.htm “The stories of the moors in spain” and it also refers to Berbers and Arabs ,describing the friction between the groups,as berber did not have access to the same quality land as the higher status Arabs.it goes on to describe a later arrival of Syrian arabs

          5. What does that have to do with the Moors being Black?

          6. Anyone can post up anything on wiki.Go look the bodies of work I just wrote about and then make an intelligent response.

          7. Well I looked up on of the works you referred too and it consistently referred to Arabs and Berbers…no mention of sub saharra African s from the Sahel or further south.the Muslim black African empiresof Mali etc had nothing to do with the “moors”

          8. Aparently you didnt.
             “Moor
             n.”North African, Berber,” late 14c., from Old French More, from MedievalLatin Morus, from Latin Maurus “inhabitant of Mauritania” (northwest Africa,a region now corresponding to northern Algeria and Morocco), from GreekMauros, perhaps a native name, or else cognate with mauros “black” (butthis adjective only appears in late Greek and may as well be from thepeople’s name as the reverse). Being a dark people in relation to Europeans,their name in the Middle Ages was a synonym for “Negro;” later (16c.-17c.)used indiscriminately of Muslims (Persians, Arabs, etc.) but especially thosein India.”
             Thats the meaning of “Moor”
             Then Type “Moor” In gimages and what race of people do you see?
             Next look up the meaning of Blackamoor.
             What more proof do u need?What youre going to say the Egyptians were Arabs next?Smh.

          9. How is “being dark in relation to Europeans” evidence that the moors were subsaharran black??

          10. Well,I am open to the idea in deep ancient history that Nubian egyptians built the first pyramids….but
              Cleopatra was a Greek woman.
              Of course the difference in time between now and Cleopatra is actually shorter than between Cleopatra and the time of the pyramids.
              But I would have to look into all that.

          11. Christ even your own definition describes how it was used to describe people who were Muslim of Arab andpPersian and even Indian origin.

          12. Read the comment dummy.

          13. No its says Black and Negro.I can see Im dealing with someone who is intellectually dishonest so I will exit this dialogue.

          14. First line:north African berber.
              Fifth linefrom Latin “maurus”::inhabitant of NorthwWest Africa morroco and Algeria.
              From the Greek language. Mauros,synnoym with Latin word Negro,both of which mean black.
              They were called black because they were darker in relation to the European.
              last line:Persian Arabs and iIndians.used indiscriminalty.
              Negro simply is black in Latin,
              No evidence at all that the moors were subsaharran African instead of North African berber.
              The other texts you sent referred to Arabs and Berbers
              Good luck trying to make the circle fit.

       3. Show me an architectural element that you think is Arab and I will show you that it is European the only element that they introduced was make geometric patterns in the wall and multifoil arch. It is difficult becuase leftist are using multiculturalism to introduce Swedish life style. Muslims were expelled totally, the son of a Muslim is a Muslim hence both got expelled not much of Arab genome remain here.

    6. Please mi amigo, take into account that most people, specially Anglos and some Northern Europeans still think that the Inquisition burned millions of witches and that Spain wiped out millions of Indians in the New World, just so you have an idea from where Quintus and others come. Many misconceptions are hard to shed away. The Expulsion of the Jews and Muslims was cruel but like you most likely knew, it was necessary, specially in a time when Spain was at war with Turkey, a war that lasted 200 years and wasted gold and lay waste to brave men (let alone thousands of women and children taken away as slaves in the Mediterranean slave trade).

       1. That’s interesting.I thought hernan cortez did slaughter lots of native Americans.
          Tell me more about this 200 yr war with the ottomans.

          1. Many Natives died, however most of them that died, were not slain by the Spaniards swords (Spaniards never accounted to even a WWII army (150.000 force) , let alone in the millions) but due to disease. Even today at least 4 countries in Latin America are majority Indian and many other are heavily influenced by Original cultures (ie. Mexico, Colombia).
             Spain, due to its position in the Mediterranean soon found itself in a war with the Turkish Empire, whose aim was to conquer all of Europe to Islam. Even Quintus wrote an article about the battle of Lepanto a high point in this war. This battle by no means was the final one, the Turkish continued their land campaigns in Eastern and central Europe and their pirates and army continued attacking and capturing civilians as slaves, for a ransom if you were a noble, as well as attacking the Spanish trade in the region. In the case of Spain, for many decades no one dared to live near the coast if not in a fortified city, otherwise risking to die or become a slave if caught. It would be good if someone could write an article about it.

          2. Hernán Cortés just allied with some natives againtst other natives, the same as the others Conquistadores did.
             No way a bunch of men that were not even soldiers (as these were in Europe’s battlefields) could conquer a continent without allies and knowledge of the mainland. But people thinks that America was a peaceful paradise where nobody killed before we arrived..

          3. Estos guiris… luego se quejaran de que a ellos les cargan con toda esa culpa blanca. Podrian empezar por dejar de cargarsela a otros blancos

          4. Los complejos que han tenido a lo largo de la historia ingleses, franceses y holandeses es lo que nos ha traído hasta aquí. Pero bueno, siempre han preferido ser aniquilados que vernos en lo más alto. Si yo no soy nadie, tú tampoco, debe de ser eso…

       2. Yes, I know. Anglo historiography made and still makes a great harm to Spain’s reputation, and even those who claim being admirors of Spain can be subject of this cheap way of seeing things. I guess this is the way that my nation is greeted for defending Western civilization.
          But I understand that it is not easy to remove all the lies that have been spread for centuries. And I also think that today Spaniards don’t make too much an effort to change that (maybe to make things worse…)

    7. Cabron,estoy de acuerdo con usted.
       First of all,we have to dismiss this notion that Spaniards are descended from Arabsor even the north African moors (berbers) who made up the bulk of the Moorish armies.
       They are western European people.
       The Arabs colonised sSpainfor 8 whole centuries.the reconquista should be celebrated as an anti-colonialist struggle.
       And yes the Muslims invaders were simply invited to leave after they had out-stayed their welcome by about 800 years.

    8. Another Spaniard here, just wanted to add something to what you say:
       The moors were expelled several times, the last one on the XVIIth century.They were always a distinct group, and for the most part their allegiance was towards their correligionaries, not towards the Spanish state; when the Turkish came to raid villages and take slaves, the spanish moorish populations helped; and joked that, given their higher birth rates and their lack of casualties in wars or colonialism, they would end up overtaking the Old Christians in Spain. That was one of the main reasons of their final expulsion (together with money and religious fanatism; it is also important to note that the Spanish were at continous war with the Ottomans at the time and having part of their population be Ottoman allies was not desirable).

       1. Grandioso Felipe III echando a los moriscos en 1609.
          Eran una plaga para el reino. Como ya he dicho, suponían una amenaza a largo plazo.

31. The way I see it, the squeaky wheel gets the oil…especially if it’s been slicked up by paid off politicians and special interest groups…

32. What if this transracialism thing becomes a “thing”?? If we accept transgenderism in that gender is whatever a person thinks it is then how can you NOT accept transracialism?? Being a member of a Native American tribe gets you tons of benefits and stuff so the tribes carefully regulate who can be a member. Injuns’ get casino money, government money, mineral rights on their lands, scholarships , indian health service ( free medical care) on an on. What if i’m a transnavajo? What if I’m a transApache ?? Some guy named O’reilly wants to be a Comanche how could you say no???

    1. My French ancestors banged the natives, I’m quite certain I have Aboriginal blood in me. I’m off to “GoNative” tanning salon and then to the Government Native Affairs office.

       1. People assume that “minority groups” have to be folks with dark skin or “people of color” but why?? I saw a special about Cajun’s in southern Louisiana. The Cajun folk were French Canadians that fled Canada when the Brits took over. They were really fucked over by the white Brits. These French speaking Acadians(aka Cajuns for short) fled to the French possession Louisiana. These Cajun folk have all the right ingredients to become an official oppressed group and get special benefits except that they are white. Don’t know whatever became of this movement…I’ve never heard of a “cajun quota ” etc.

          1. Actually, I’m descended from the Jackatars of the east coast of Canada. A mixed breed of French and Indian.

          2. Jackatars?? How cool. I’m part Polish but no one goes “I’m part Polish” but 4 out 5 people in the south when I lived there would say “I’m part Cherokee”…

    2. Actually I can see transracialism much more easier than transsexualism. There are certainly “wiggers” who relate more to the black race but have white skin. And there are Asians who hate Asian culture and identify as white. So I think accepting this is inevitable once Caitlin Jenner opened the floodgates. I view all this as good because as a straight white male a) I never get any sort of identify benefit and b) my group will soon be a minority.

33. In Italy, one of Berlusconi’s playmates was a Moroccan entertainer (!). For all we know, she might have been a descendant of a Spanish Moslem. Does she deserve a Spanish passport?
    Spain could be missing out on a lot here…lol…

    1. Has anybody compiled a “tenant profile” for all the actresses / models / dancers / strippers / hos that lived in his apartment building rent free?
       http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8274558/Silvio-Berlusconis-bunga-bunga-girls-evicted-for-lowering-the-tone.html

       1. Politicians and hookers/strippers/whores. Whoddah thunk dat!

    2. I’d give here a passport alright.

34. An example of a possible descendant of a Spanish Moor.

    1. I think I just filled the cup.

    2. TiTtIeS!

    3. Who is this?

       1. Ruby the Heartbreaker…Google her.

    4. As a Sephardic Jew who lives in Granada, (I am also Askhenazi, North-Italian, French, Spanish and British) I going to tell you something Quintus: Spain is Spain because of Spanish people. Muslims was expelled because they were doing violent uprisings near Granada, in Alpujarra after Catholics Kings have already seized the palace-fortress of La Alhambra. Jews were exiled because they were Jews. Muslims in Spain were sacking the north of Spain and raping Spanish women until they were banished from here.
       You said that Andalusian architecture is Muslim, sorry your are wrong, Muslims took most of the architecture from Visigoths, Rome and Constantinople. My marxist white father who teach history told it to me.
       The zeal of Spaniard was always here. Without it The Reconquest would not have been possible.
       Now Spain is being conquer again by waste people such as sub-Saharans and lower class Berbers people. I have nothing against Berbers if the immigration is controlled to avoid the pass of dangerous people and allow the pass of best( I am friend of some worthy Moroccan boys and very hot Morrocan girls, I have nothing against Moroccan I myself am descendant of a King of a Taifa who married the daughter of the King Alfonso IX de Castilla) but low class Moroccan and sub-saharans are like-gypsy people they are more closely in appearance and behaviour to them than Spaniard. And now I know why the fuck there are white racist in America including police, immigrants make ghettos with their own laws and are very very prone to commit violent felonies(like gypsies or even more). And the best is that you pay their support with your taxes!!!
       Please see this video of a black guy killing a Spanish police because he ask for his papers. Nobody said nothing about this in the news. It is the average behaviour of blacks in America?
       http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sMgU0YHIy3Y

35. Update: the prideful sexist racist whore is stepping down AKA FIRED.

36. Great article, Q.C.!
    We are truly living in bizarro world now. As a black man, I can’t begin to fathom why any rich, white girl (who really can have it all) would pretend to be black. I also can’t fathom how so many black people believed that she was black. Absolutely, shocking.

37. As a descendant of Spaniards- I agree the Jewish contribution was less influential than the Muslim one. No nation needs to apologize for its past- as every modern nation state is founded on violence, theft and expulsion- including Isra’el.

    1. Finally, a man who knows his history.

38. Spain will now be fertile ground for Israeli hucksters/criminals – since the majority of Israelis (Sephardim/Mizrahim) can probably claim Spanish ancestry.

39. well written…espicallly the history lesson…the morsico should be allowed back into spain afterall they carry spanish blood..think about 1 in 6 in morocco have spainard blood

40. Excellent article…i often think that you are free to tick any ethnicity you feel like ticking. A company or organisation has no right to question what you tick. By ticking black it would help a company or government department meet its ethnic quotas. Will we have the government create a body to investigate your race?
    Also if the uk for example offered citizenship to any people of uk descent who resided in the usa, australia, canada or new zealand and south africa the political correct movement would say it is racist and discriminating against other people in those countries that were not white.
    The key to understanding all this is down to who is automatically given victim status. Those with victim status can claim benefits (blacks, jews, women, muslims, gays, transexuals) . Those without victim status cant. (White hetero sexual males being the weakest to claim victim status).
    Amazing Spain giving jews the right to return goes against the arguement that some black guy off the boat somalia – once given british citizenship – is as british as a white guy with generations of ancestors who helped build the country.
    Personally i have always argued that a rat born in a stable is not a horse just because where he is born. He will always be a rat. And the horse a horse whether its born in the stable or not. Thats how i view any somalian, black or muslim who happened to be a ‘lucky rat’ and born inside a western country (the stable) and then thinks he is a thorough bred horse.

    1. Lying on job application can be grounds for being fired. The HR manager could “stumble” onto the employee’s facebook page with pics of family, for example. Its a legal question, but no doubt there are many under-employed attorneys who would take the case for 1/3 of any potential damages won in court. I think this woman just resigned for personal reasons.

       1. the federal government requires employers accept self-identification, and I can only imagine it’s because of the reality that many Hispanics and some blacks would be considered “white” by the casual observer, in the case of Hispanics, because they ARE white most often.

41. On the whole Transgender business: so, to the “properly educated”, gender is all a social construct and there is no difference between a man and a woman, evil evil men tricked women into being slaves or something because men hate them and that is why we have genders.
    But wait! None of the above applies when the person is trans, and they know from infancy that they’re not the gender they are, they’re the other one and it’s absolutely not a choice say these same “properly educated” people.
    So which is it? I don’t argue with SJW types, but I’d love to know how they spin this. Of course, it’s whatever way that benefits them most, even if it’s a blatant contradiction, but I’m curious to see the mental acrobatics in action.

    1. “I’m curious to see the mental acrobatics in action.”
       You lose.

    2. They will just change the rules on the fly. They do not have to abide by logic. I heard a story on Radiolab today (it was maybe a dozen episodes or so back) about someone who regularly changes the gender he is on a daily basis, like he wakes up and decides oh today I’m a man or nah, today I feel more female.
       The whole episode was absurd and comical to me. When the interviewer began questioning “her” on “her” past, “she” ran off to the bathroom and came out and said while in there she “changed ” to a man and now doesn’t want to talk about his feelings lol
       They even quoted two “gender studies” experts who said that his whole charade was made up and not possible. But that’s just because it hasn’t been written up and codified yet. Once they come up with the proper name for it and describe it in the DSM manual, it will become the next thing. Of course, everyone has a masculine and a feminine side, a yen and a yang, an extrovert and an introvert, and you will feel different components of these aspects stronger at different times. That’s all this “gender” nonsense really is to me. Just feelings and making a big deal about them.

    3. Exactly. The reason trannies begin to exist is when women are given better treatment now these men want to become women

42. If you think reparations are something worth considering you are taking the position that collective punishment is valid. Which means you agree that a town has the right to outlaw black males under 30 because of their outsized propensity towards violence.
    The moral relativist crowd somehow wants to hold a bunch of people from 200 to 2000 years ago to today’s moral code. I find that fascinating.

43. I would like to highlight certain points :
    Spain was conquered by hords of berbers that “teamed-up” with Arabs just to have a portion of booty (berbers basicly did not knew arabic back then and they were also fierce opposers of Arabs : look for the story of the berber queen Kahina and the King Axel ) Tareq-ibn-ziad was under the command of uqba-ibn-nafie but was the commander of the tribes of zennata, sanhadja and massmouda
    The architecture you find in spain is mainly a north-african architecture : it’s the islamisation of the roman technics that were used and adapted by berbers after their conversion to Islam (northern morocco was very roman just before the arrival of the arabs know back then as Mauretania Tingitana), this is why you will find similar landmarks in morocco and not in syria or saudi arabia)
    and for spain not granting the same privilege to “moors” : just less than a century spain was crushed in the war of Anoual in the rif mountains. and responded by bombing the rif area with the help of the french and the sultan army with mustard gas so animosity is still recent from both sides.

44. Some good Algerian Berber music … hot rhythms, yeah!
    

46. “Was Dolezal deluded and unstable, or was she cunningly milking the system for her own benefit?”
    Probably both. The present situation is akin to basically freaks aggrandizing their freakishness.

    1. Crazy like a fox.

47. This is just bullshit here. The jews helped the Moors invade and conquer Spain by opening the gates of their cities. The Moors then raped their women and enslaved the country as they were want to do. The jews helped the Moors by being their spies and tax collectors. The jews are traitors whereever they go. They are betraying the West even now as they welcome Mexicans to America and Muslims and blacks to Europe.
    Roosh, people like you will never be welcomed by Islam. Their prudish views of sex would have you whipped tortured and jailed within hours of your arrival. You must be a damn fool for supporting those who would oppose and imprison you!

    1. I’m no jew lover but what these get from letting invaders into a nation that harbors them?

48. I find it comical that an obviously white woman could tan and get a fro and fool the public. Should’ve changed her last name to Dolemite and no one would’ve never known.
    This fluidity of race and privilege is like a buffet table, and men–especially Caucasian ones–are at the very end of the line.
    However , I think it’s of special concern of the powers that be that white folks abandon either their race or gender.

    1. “I find it comical that an obviously white woman could tan and get a fro and fool the public.”
       Keep in mind that the most of the leadership of the “black community” are mulatto (50% black), quadroon (25% black), ocotroon (12.5% black), or even less black. Those with the most white in them, the lighter the skin, the closer they are to *almost* “passing” for white, they’re likely the ones most leading the “black community” against the whites to prove how black they are. Observe that this white woman managed to look “blacker” than say Eric Holder, Jeremiah Wright, Elijah Muhammad (prophet of Nation of Islam), and Wallace Fard Muhammad (thought to be Allah himself), etc.
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Fard_Muhammad
       https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Wallace_Fard_Muhammad.jpg/200px-Wallace_Fard_Muhammad.jpg

       1. exactly, the picture of this “black woman” next to that Mosby chick was a bit more revealing than people realize–most blacks are mixed, of course, but they always say “Native American” to avoid the obvious irony of saying “white” (which is the truth)–the very group they supposedly hate.

       2. Fard wasn’t black at all,btw…possibly Indian from what I’ve read.

          1. “Fard wasn’t black at all,btw…possibly Indian from what I’ve read.”
             Fard’s race could have been many things (including being a mostly white man trying to pass as anything other than somebody mixed with black.).
             1. Caucasian New Zealander. (how the common law wife described her husband to the FBI. Could have lied to her.)
             2. FBI claim: Turkish Muslim (Caucasian again)
             Said about himself to his followers. (“My name is W.D. Fard and I came from the Holy City of Mecca. More about myself I will not tell you yet, for the time has not yet come. I am your brother. You have not yet seen me in my royal robes.”)
             Said on WWI draft card (born Afghanistan, which would make him Caucasian)
             Said to the 1920 United States Census (claimed white as his race, gave his place of birth as New Zealand. He provided no known place of birth for his parents, nor his date of immigration.)
             A marriage certificate dated June 5, 1924: reported he was a cook, age 26, born in Oregon, but living in Los Angeles. He reported he was of “Spanish” race. His parents names are given as Zaradodd Ford of “Madrad, Span” (presumably Madrid, Spain) and Babbjie.
             An FBI memorandum dated August 1963, states that the FBI had not been able to verify his birth date or birthplace, and “he was last heard from in 1934.”
             Whatever he really was, he was a self claimed “white”/Caucasian man, who founded a sect of Islam (a religion founded by Caucasians) that was racist against Caucasians.
             Truth is stranger than fiction.

    2. Orange is the new black.

       1. Sorry, don’t watch lesbian prison movies. Not the target audience.

          1. I never, ever watched that program. Just making a joke. I have worked in corrections – been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

49. I have to say…you went a bit astray with the Moors. I see your point and don’t really disagree, but one thing sticks out as just plain wrong…
    Quote- “With these cruel edicts, it may be argued that Spain cut its own throat.
    Its Jews and Muslims were among its most productive citizens. They were
    merchants, craftsmen, bankers, doctors, book publishers, and scholars.
    From this point on, an intolerant shadow was cast over Spanish cultural
    life, enforced by the directives of the Inquisition. It would take
    centuries for the nation to recover.”
    Spain lead Europe and therefore the world for the next three hundred years. Militarily, politically, financially and culturally.
    It is easy to dismiss the wealth as the simple spoils of the New World, but it was far beyond that. The Spanish, in this time outlawed Native slavery (key word; Native, but highly progressive at the time), produced the great Cervantes and at the very tale end of this period Goya. Spanish culture spread throughout the New World and across the old.
    Those are but just a few examples…the 300 years following the expulsion of the Moors and Jews, were golden ones for Spain.

50. Looks like white women are now seeing how white men get treated. Getting popcorn ready for when thye realize they need white men and we walk away and let the liberal, feminist horde devour them.

51. Identity was a primary concern and motivator of that certain 20th century regime in Europe …

52. I would love to hear some speeches from that thing talking about how hard it was growing up as a black woman, etc., etc.

    1. Go on YouTube. The one where she is shown a picture of her white father is priceless. She got out of there so fast you would have thought the Klan was chasing her.

53. Short men suffer from this same injustice. Discriminated by society they just don’t look good enough for mainstream leftism to care in fact the left makes disparaging remarks on short men especially if those short men are better off than them. Jobs, women, careers are put off by short men forcing them to find alternative ways to live better and are usually spat on for these ways they have to live when society forced them into theses lives.
    Blacks, women, transsexuals, homosexuals are given protection, money, emotional support all the way because that is the popular way. You can call short men names make jokes on them, commit violence upon them, say garbage about how they are inferior especially when talking about evolution but oh how dare you speak about women that way oh how dare you say anything snide about homosexuals and transsexuals
    That’s when I knew the left is full of shit and they can go get killed or persecuted for all I care.

54. The law spits on the grave of Queen Isabella, one of the greatest Europeans to ever live. That alone shows you the amount of self hatred that Europeans have embraced.

55. Said it before, say it again, this “scam” has been going on for two decades within the Hispanic/Latino community. Prior to the 90’s, if one was clearly a “white hispanic” you were simply “white” of ethnic ancestry, akin to Italians–only actual “Chicanos” and/or Mestizos were considered “people of color”. As the years went by, the “color line” got shifted progressively left (if you will) to where simply having a Spanish surname was sufficient to claim victimhood–yes yes, we know, “we can be of any race” (EXACTLY), so you wound up with Blond or light Brown haired, blue eyed, non-Spanish speaking kids named “Martinez” who were raised in Indiana, etc, getting affirmative action. The “cover” was always “we don’t all look alike” or “just because you don’t speak Spanish”, but that only PROVES THE POINT. Linda Carter (Wonder Woman), Rita Hayworth, Linda Rodstadt, Andy Garcia, and hosts of others (including Jorge Ramos) are of primarily SPANISH ancestry (even if their families are from L. America).

    1. Good post. And following this logic, since all Afro-Americans have English last names, from this day forth we can consider ourselves “White” with all the attendant benefits.
       Where’s my Ivy League education?

       1. White privilege. Get to the back of the line and shut up.

56. Could it be that Zionists know that Israel is demographically
    doomed and are creating a safety valve for future Jewish-Israeli migrants? There is also a bill in the US Senate, sponsored
    by Senators McCain & Feinstein (written by AIPAC) that would allow Israelis
    to travel to the US without a visa and also make it easier from them to work in
    the US. The sticking point is that the
    Israelis want to racially profile Americans travelling to Israel.

    1. Nope. Zionists will hang on to their beloved state until their last breath. However some jewish extremists think that jews should not have a state and must remain a diaspora as it is part of their identity and the will of God yadayada…

57. Is this transracial or transgender ?
    http://www.okcupid.com/profile/lorrainecruz47/photos?cf=profile

58. One point I don’t hear being made often (because it’s ridiculously not politically incorrect)… is WHY she would do this? Yes obviously she has some sort of identity issues.
    But consider this…. would she be accepted by the black community as a white woman with blonde hair? Of course not. She would be merely a token tag along… but never “one of us”. Black culture in this country is the most racist and the most self-segregating culture in all of the western world. It constantly derides those who try to assimilate part of it’s culture (see Taylor Swift) yet demands complete and utter acceptance of itself at the same time. She did this because she wanted to “fit in”… and she knew the black community is so anti-white that the only chance she had was to “be one of them”.

    1. You’re probably right..

    2. Or she obviously underwent some sort of ‘hazing’ by her siblings or on the ‘bus’ at a young age. Lesbians and fags unchecked will also initiate/convert new meat from within their sibling group, project community or friends at a young age when no statutory protection is available. Converting the youth to wiggers or gay is protected by cult. marx.law and the same law prohibits daddy’s belt from fixing the situation.

59. The Army of the Jews (Hehe) never invaded Spain now did they? Small detail to a propagandizing mind.

60. Quintus please READ ME!! As a Sephardic Jew who lives in Granada, (I am also Askhenazi, North-Italian, French, Spanish and British) I going to tell you something Quintus: Spain is Spain because of Spanish people. Muslims was expelled because they were doing violent uprisings near Granada, in Alpujarra after Catholics Kings have already seized the palace-fortress of La Alhambra. Jews were exiled because they were Jews. Muslims in Spain were sacking the north of Spain and raping Spanish women until they were banished from here.
    You said that Andalusian architecture is Muslim, sorry your are wrong, Muslims took the architecture from Visigoths and Constantinople. My marxist white father who teach history told it to me.
    The zeal of Spaniard was always here. Without it The Reconquest would not have been possible.
    Now Spain is being conquer again by waste people such as sub-Saharans and lower class Berbers people. I have nothing against Berbers if the immigration is controlled to avoid the pass of dangerous people and allow the pass of best( I am friend of some worthy Moroccan boys and very hot Morrocan girls, I have nothing against Moroccan I myself am descendant of a King of a Taifa who married the daughter of the King Alfonso IX de Castilla) but low class Moroccan and sub-saharans are like-gypsy people they are more closely in appearance and behaviour to them than Spaniard. And now I know why the fuck there are white racist in America including police, immigrants make ghettos with their own laws and are very very prone to commit violent felonies(like gypsies or even more). And the best is that you pay their support with your taxes!!!
    Please see this video of a black guy killing a Spanish police because he ask for his papers. Nobody said nothing about this in the news. It is the average behaviour of blacks in America?
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sMgU0YHIy3Y

61. If our president can self identify as black when he came from a white mom and was raised entirely by Caucasians……then we can all self identify as whatever we please and no one has the right to impose their vision on us. I personally see no difference between Jenner and Dozell…..

    1. The logical end of liberalism is relativism.

62. By golly it’s time we had a GYPSY president. They’ve got the shell game in their blood.

63. Great article Quintus, once again!

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65. By the way, this is how things are going to be in Spain:
    
    This girl presents herself as a ‘woman, dyke, communist and femminist’ to the culture councilorship of Madrid.
    Embrace democracy.

66. The meat of this article is where Quintus points out that class priveledge designated pidgeon holes: (LGBT, race, disability) are ambiguous. They have been assigned by the cultural marxist early education programs. Roving loudspeakers proclaiming ”stay in your homes, martial law/curfew is in effect” translates to ”stay in your assigned pidgeon holes, do your part to preserve our cultural marxist control over you”. Pidgeon holing yourself is voluntary but the flimsy laws and apparatus enforcing the imposed diversity codes become transparent. Their power is gone – POOF. Like a square wooden wheel though, the useless law and its tax and code enforcement arm will lag greatly in the time it takes to exit the field. The ‘wood’ wheel obstructing the roadway and its wooden soldiers will be mistaken for firewood laying about.

67. Looks like someone at Al Jazeera read this article:
    http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/17/whats-behind-spains-offer-of-citizenship-to-jews.html

68. This ordeal demonstrates the cognitive dissonance and self deception of liberals when it comes to the essentialism of their identity politics, and their claims of being anti-racist while being racist.
    Supposedly:
    Gender is a social construct of the white supremacist patriarchy.
    Race is a social construct of the white supremacist patriarchy.
    However, one can identify as a gender different from your sex- a man can identify as a woman and be a transwoman, and that’s celebrated.
    Performing as female makes one who identifies as such female:one can lop off one’s dick, have a vaginoplasty, breast augmentation, grow hair and take hormones and be accepted as a woman, like Laverne Cox or Jenner
    But for some reason, a white person who identifies as a race/ethnicity different from their actual ethnicity is not ok. It’s down to essentialism. Performing as black-darkening one’s skin, wearing braids, fighting the man-does not make you a black. Race is essential, you have to be black to do black.
    To allow one type of identity claim should mean to allow all, but does denying one mean that race exists, and by extension that gender follows sex? Liberals are having a hell of a time reconciling this with their party lines.

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