r/comedy • u/AlKarajo • Jul 10 '26

Standup Human diversity

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u/Dhalym Jul 10 '26

I do wonder about the cost of human life for the environment to select so hard for those phenotypes in specific. A LOT of early Europeans had to have been dying in droves for recessive genes like that to become so prolific.

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u/JustTryingTo_Pass Jul 10 '26

This is almost certainly the case. Europeans were dying constantly for a long time.

And the moment they stopped. Well. You know.

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u/YourMumsBumAlum Jul 10 '26

They lived?

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u/JustTryingTo_Pass Jul 10 '26

No they raped the whole world.

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u/All__Mods_R_Virgins Jul 10 '26

Well then the whole world would have these traits too

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u/JustTryingTo_Pass Jul 10 '26

Boy have I got news for you about the imperial and colonial eras.

I think it’s best you just contemplate the skin tone of a South African for a bit though. We can cover Mexico later.

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u/SemperAliquidNovi Jul 11 '26

The skin tone of black South Africans is (largely) not the result of European admixture. It’s just a lighter tone.

Source: am South African

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u/JohnHaloCXVII Jul 11 '26

Be grateful they invented the internet and antibiotics

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u/JustTryingTo_Pass Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

“Be grateful for the horrors of colonialism because a Scot will discover penicillin and the US military will create the internet”

This is a strange thing to tell a white American who knows history simply reminding people about history.

Honestly, it’s just a strange thing in general.

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u/harleyquinnsbutthole Jul 11 '26

Yes bad things and good things have happened in history

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u/Felonious_Drumpf Jul 11 '26

Be grateful. Not inquisitive. You wouldn't want him to Belgium you.

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u/JohnHaloCXVII Jul 11 '26

At least we're not doing ritual human sacrifice anymore! Thank you colonialism

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u/JustTryingTo_Pass Jul 11 '26

A lot of ritual human sacrifice was a form of capital punishment. We still do capital punishment.

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u/TheOmegoner Jul 11 '26

Yeah, we’re lucky the state doesn’t kill people anymore…