Apostasy's A Bummer

[_Droopy]

Good grief. You realize it's on the Census, right? You realize it's taught in every sociology class on the planet, right? You realize the government uses it to classify people, right? You realize your ignorance is showing again... RIGHT?

Zimmerman is part Peruvian and part Caucasian. Classifying him as a "white Hispanic" is odd because "Hispanic" is normally associated with people who are actually Hispanic, in a genetic as well as ethnic sense, just as being understood as black implies African descent in a genetic sense. He could equally as well be called a "Hispanic White" emphasizing the Hispanic aspect, or a "Hispanic American" as in "Mexican American."

But none of that would fit the template. If Zimmerman had been black, and Trayvon Martin white or Hispanic, none of us would even be discussing that case now, or ever.

Take a class, Droopy. Your ignorance is branding you as poor white trash (another category altogether).

No, I just don't subscribe to the rape of language for the purpose of war by other means.

[_harmony]

Good grief. You realize it's on the Census, right? You realize it's taught in every sociology class on the planet, right? You realize the government uses it to classify people, right? You realize your ignorance is showing again... RIGHT?

Zimmerman is part Peruvian and part Caucasian. Classifying him as a "white Hispanic" is odd because "Hispanic" is normally associated with people who are actually Hispanic, in a genetic as well as ethnic sense, just as being understood as black implies African descent in a genetic sense. He could equally as well be called a "Hispanic White" emphasizing the Hispanic aspect, or a "Hispanic American" as in "Mexican American."

But none of that would fit the template. If Zimmerman had been black, and Trayvon Martin white or Hispanic, none of us would even be discussing that case now, or ever.

Take a class, Droopy. Your ignorance is branding you as poor white trash (another category altogether).

No, I just don't subscribe to the rape of language for the purpose of war by other means.

it's like talking to the wall... or an 8th grader.

[_thews]

I don't know what he's trying to do. You don't seem to now, either, although in the past you have happily linked arms with him and others (some named, some not) against the traditional FARMS defense of the Book of Abraham. One thing is clear, however. If anyone takes the position that the Book of Abraham was the creation of Joseph Smith's imagination, that it was not translated by the gift and power of God (as the church claims the Book of Mormon was), and that it was not an authentic ancient text, then that is an apostate position, and in outright rebellion against official church doctrine.

If anyone takes the position that Joseph Smith correctly translated anything, to include the papyrus we know to exist, has nothing to do with an apostate position, but rather a position of logical thinking, as every single shred of tangible evidence proves Joseph Smith was a fraud.

Whether such a person is an "apostate" in some other global sense is another matter.

No it isn't... blow it up to "global" proportions in a lame attempt to imply you have a point to make, but any rational human with an ounce of deductive reasoning can conclude that Joseph Smith didn't know how to translate Egyptian. Throw in there is no other trace of so-called "reformed" Egyptian, and your point, if you call it that, is just another blathering post of ignorance to the factual data that proves you literally have no idea of what you're talking about.

[_EAllusion]

White Hispanic and non-white Hispanic are common race designations on forms. It's a distinction that is used all over the place. Black isn't determined by being of recent African descent and people who don't have that do get called black because of a combination of their skin color and social history. Likewise, not that many "whites" are of actual Caucasian descent and who has been folded into that designation has fluctuated over time. To wit, it wasn't that long ago that the Irish and Jews were not considered white, now they usually are. Ditto for various olive-skinned eastern European groups. Racial categories are a social construct, not a genetic label.

[_Jason Bourne]

I thought it was an extra day off per week and a 10% raise. But I agree that the lifestyle and closed mind of the apostate is a quite a bummer.

The bolded comment is rich coming from you BC. You are one of the most closed minded persons I have ever run into.

[_Droopy]

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[_lulu]

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Oh, damn.

[_bcspace]

Outside of BYU there is.

Yeah, in some places, like Hillsdale and a few other islands in the sea of intellectual conformity and philosophical repression that is the contemporary American university, but rare they are indeed.

That's true. I had forgotten Hillsdale even though I get Imprimis on a regular basis.

[_Droopy]

Outside of BYU there is.

Yeah, in some places, like Hillsdale and a few other islands in the sea of intellectual conformity and philosophical repression that is the contemporary American university, but rare they are indeed.

That's true. I had forgotten Hillsdale even though I get Imprimis on a regular basis.

I just received my copy a few days ago. As a freebee, this is hard to beat.

[_Darth J]

I would just like to remind everyone browsing this thread that we're not a cult.