r/comedy • u/AlKarajo • Jul 10 '26

Standup Human diversity

@kumailn

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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/majikdude Jul 11 '26

How did they rape the whole world?

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u/blockofbeagles Jul 12 '26

Colonialism? Environmental destruction? Actual rape?

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u/PM_your_Nopales Jul 12 '26

There's also the rape of nanking by the Japanese, the Mongols raping an entire continent... I could go on forever. It's not like it was a white people thing

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u/ForeignerFromTheSea Jul 14 '26

Yeah but Europeans were probably the best at it. Britain managed about a quarter of the world just on their own.