Breaking News British descended from blue-eyed golliwog!

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Extra! Extra!

Hate to smell his feet.

 

[HoodedRat]

Damn! There goes my white privilege.

 

[rareboy]

Golliwog eh?

 

[Cormac135]

Someone won't be happy.

 

[peeonme]

I had never heard that term before, interesting article.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ A golliwog is a 'person-of-color' doll from the British Empire. Joe Orton mentioned a 'white golliwog' in one of his plays, and I've seen a child with one (not white) in an old Brit b&w movie a few years back.

 

[Cormac135]

I had never heard that term before, interesting article.

They're just a touch racist.

 

[ChickenGuy]

Yeah I saw that report on the BBC a few hours ago.

They said that they've dated Cheddar Man to 10,000 years ago.

I wonder whether skin pigmentation actually changes that 'quick' anthropologically speaking from pure black to pure white in that relatively short period of time. I have my doubts.

This is from the same BBC who had a children's educational history montage featuring assorted-coloured people throughout history in Britain including black Vikings and black Scots.

I suspect there is the usual left-wing racial multicultural PC propagandising behind this. I've anecdotally seen them push this in various forms a few times now. They'll 'discover' black Anglo-Saxons next. Mark my words.

It does no use to 'blackwash' history for the sake of modern-day 'inclusivity'. You end up treating history as only existing to be changed for the sake of a 21st-century morality tale, instead of treating it how it should be - an accurate portrayal of the facts.

 

[Latimer]

There's actually no DNA evidence one way or the other. The issue of color is all hypothesis. I think it's fair to assume that the decision to portray Cheddar Man as black has much to do with currently fashionable academic politics.

 

[rareboy]

They're just a touch racist.

Just a touch.

 

[HoodedRat]

There's actually no DNA evidence one way or the other. The issue of color is all hypothesis. I think it's fair to assume that the decision to portray Cheddar Man as black has much to do with currently fashionable academic politics.

... and we have a winner.

 

[Dominus]

Someone won't be happy.

If anything, this fits in perfectly with the white supremacist narrative, that white people are the better/best version of brown people after having evolved from them.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Why would someone have pigmentless blue eyes, yet jet-black skin? It doesn't make sense, and neither are there any modern types with darker skin and eyes that are not brown [STRIKE]except perhaps on National Geographic[/STRIKE].

The article claims ..., Cheddar Man had “ancestral” versions of all these genes, strongly suggesting he would have had “dark to black” skin tone, but combined with blue eyes.

Wouldn't the blue eye genes be ancestral too? If so, why not?

 

[nyctopgam]

That's why it is in the news. It upends everything we conventionally hold about skin and eye color.

It will take some time to adjust to it. Genetic research is just about starting.

 

[Telstra]

Big deal .... nothing surprises ...

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

That's why it is in the news. It upends everything we conventionally hold about skin and eye color.

It will take some time to adjust to it. Genetic research is just about starting.

Don't think it does, necessarily. No doubt, the presentation of this 'startling' discovery is nothing but a ploy to present something fairly lackluster in a light more favourable not in the last place towards funding.

 

[nyctopgam]

Don't think it does, necessarily. No doubt, the presentation of this 'startling' discovery is nothing but a ploy to present something fairly lackluster in a light more favourable not in the last place towards funding.

Maybe yes. Maybe no. Probable, dunno. Possible, yes. We will see. It is early yet.

What the report has done, however, is to make us, well, some of us anyway, not take our received wisdom on the subject for granted.

That's what science and research often does.

 

[Telstra]

Because of this discovery,
the Islamist says this country the UK belongs to them ...