2022 LC Thread—New Year, New Thread

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1583585760887840771?t=GR52w2o7YeoS_Xhljo8XLg&s=19

They say the younger generations are becoming more leftist

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Real or onion?

Pregnant women to be handed free vapes by London council

Real, and smart policy. The vapers have been 100% completely correct since day 1.

Oh the irony

https://twitter.com/badlegaltakes/status/1583504778880950277?s=46&t=Cxw8bi5mlqNNkm4_R4u5gA

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https://twitter.com/danlehnermusic/status/1583541165877473280?t=H1bC7opqe68uha3vq6BXLQ&s=19

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So I wasted 8 minutes of my life listening to that. About 20 seconds was Q sort of specific conspiracy stuff the rest was standard.

Vaping has been pushed as harm reduction for years in the UK. No surprise to see this.

Oooh article makes a convincing case, though testimony of her sisters and genealogical research, that Sacheen Littlefeather was not native American, she was Mexican American

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

These things are so silly when conflating genetics and ethnicity. The latter is cultural not biological.

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Don’t most Mexican-Americans have some indigenous ancestry?

In the Elizabeth Warren sense, probably.

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Well, the indigenous people of Canada don’t see to agree with you. When white people claim indigenous identity they get pretty pissed off about it.

It’s situational cultural too. You can obviously falsely claim ethnic membership.

When I hear indigenous people make genetic claims to band membership I roll my eyes just as much.

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I know what you mean but the Indian Status card is based on genetics and that’s what people usually demand to see as “proof” of indigenous heritage. It’s probably not the best of all possible approaches we could ever think of, but it at least crowds out culture coopting white people and there is A LOT of them.

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I assumed that most people from Mexico, Central America and South America have a non-trivial amount of indigenous heritage.

For sure. They are all from the same source genetic pool.

I am not a geneticist but I question the whole idea of “Apache genetics”. Apache culture is obviously real.

I’d also assume that there are people with an indigenous grandparent (or even parent) who look very Caucasian.

In most cases they ask for genealogy and not genetics, which as we all know from daytime talk shows, is not the same thing. :joy:

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We have an entire indigenous ethnic group in Canada called the Métis. They mostly all look “white” as they are descendants of French and indigenous genetic mixing.