Best Arguments for Miscegenation: The Biracial Hotties Thread

Hey Ally -- I can't defend myself on the Noise Board, so sorry about this thread. :( It was sort of a response to that stupid interracial couples thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ned Raggett
http://kuci.org/~nraggett/nedwedding.jpg

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh I didn't realize you were banned again over there! I thought you just got banned and unbanned on a daily basis. It's ok, it just rubs m

http://media.bbn.com.cn/pictures/500215/10132/10132_KeanuReeves08.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc
http://babybouy.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/jaymc.jpg

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.popmatters.com/features/images/040706-mulatto.jpg

― jewess harvell (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

uh it was supposed to say "It just rubs me the wrong way, I'll be a good sport tho" where it just says "m" for some reason.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

I BET THE BASTARD CHILDREN THOMAS JEFFERSON BEGAT ON THAT SALLY HEMINGS BITCH WERE SMOKING HOT. LIKE, TOTAL SLAVE SUPERMODELS.

RIGHT???

AM I RIGHT???

COME ON GUYS.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://allstarz.hollywood.com/tigerwoods/061.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

insert my t.woods pic into elmo's post plz!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2002/05/27/rock.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

multiracial fetishism is just the a new incarnation of exoticism. wise up, folks.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you just got banned and unbanned on a daily basis.

I think hstencil somehow intuits the second I've been unbanned and then bans for me as long as he can.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

eliminate one (1) article from my previous post

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

derekjeterwithwicketthebear.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.standardtimes.com/daily/03-97/03-23-97/cher.jpg

Half-breed, that's all I ever heard
Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word
Half-breed, she's no good they warned
Both sides were against me since the day I was born...

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

OH HOLY CHRIST WICKET THE BEAR'S WEBSITE IS NO LONGER

;_;

I DIDN'T KNOW

RIP derekjeterwithwicketthebear.jpg, you were well loved.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

multiracial fetishism is just the a new incarnation of exoticism. wise up, folks.

i dunno, hot is hot.

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

"image hosted by tripod" krowr krowr.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

if it was a thread called "BEST ARGUMENTS FOR HUMANITY: ALL TYPES OF HOTTIES THREAD" I wouldn't find it creepy...I mean I get what jaymc was doing and all etc etc.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Is it wrong if I *pause* when I look at these people, and contemplate their origins?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

maybe we should just make it that thread, ALL TYPES OF HOTTIES

xpost no, but it'd be wrong if you did as a friend of mine does and called these people all "blexicans"

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.armchairnews.com/images/vin.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

there is something to be said for mixing gene pools, but even purebreeds can be hot, folks, let's not fool ourselves.

xpost

ally, I believe the preferred nomenclature is "blatino"

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

i know this kid who's half korean and half black, and I SHIT YOU NOT, HIS NAME IS KOBLAK

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Did someone say my name?

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

cutefrecklefacedgirl/idatedwheniwas17/whowashalfflemishandhalfjapanese.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

the maid of honor in my wedding told everyone that my (filipino) wife and my greatest fear is that our kid would look like Rob Schneider (half flip, half jew)

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I AM FRENCH AND GREEK DOES THAT MAKE ME MULTIRACIAL?????

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

a lot of mixed race people aren't hot at all. just like a lot of any race people aren't hot at all! if everyone was hot, there'd be no hot. ever think about things that way?

me and Jimmy are totally hot tho. Cutty too, where is he.

xpost TOTALLY DOES BRO

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

blexicans

Oh noooes...That struck my funny bones very hard.

Must fight urge to make up more names...

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

this is weird

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ally's right:

http://www.metronews.ca/uploadedImages/seanlennon_article.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAARRRGH!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lolitafiles.com/uploaded_images/SeanLennon-789252.jpg

SEAN LENNON NOOOOOOOOO

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

ALLY AND I R HOTT FIENDS

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/rgin/respek-knuckles.gif

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

guys I think we're forgetting about someone
http://myspace-277.vo.llnwd.net/00024/77/24/24254277_l.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Thing is, Sean Lennon used to be such a cutie, like ca. 1988.

xpost DUDE YES.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

my mom's from new jersey

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

(Oops, not 1988. I meant 1998, when that solo album came out.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Most 9 year olds or whatever he was are cute, dude.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Good lord, it took us that long to remember Spencer? I'm ashamed of us all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

We know he was in your heart the whole time, Ned.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

SOMEONE FIND THE COVER OF THE SPECIAL FALL 1993 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE

THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA

i'm leaving work so i cannot

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

phew, for a sec there, you were an exoticist AND a paedophile

crossposts

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

OKAY

http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1993/1101931118_400.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

We know he was in your heart the whole time, Ned.

Deep in my heart
There's a house
That can hold
Almost all of you

Hey there's an idea, Rolan Bolan, son of Marc and Gloria Jones...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I crossposted there too. I think partially because I refused to believe that he actually meant 1998 because that's blatant lying.

xpost the new face of America looks blatantly like at least 7 people I know personally.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dis-oriented.com/images/prussian-blue.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I actually totally remember reading that issue of Time on the bus on the way to this weekend retreat I went on in high school. Coincidentally, the next night, I got into an argument with this one kid about whether or not "Hispanic" was a race.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

[GIRLFRIEND.JPG HERE]

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

those girls look like the very, very poor man's version of the Olsen Twins. WTF are they?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

The New Face should grow her hair a bit?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

The New Face of America was almost indie-hot. Give her a pixie cut and she's the next Winona Ryder.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

ally, you missed the other threads about these charmers?

ihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Blue_%28American_duo%29

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

xpost twins are in a white supremacy teen pop group. They've gotten news coverage.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

those girls look like the very, very poor man's version of the Olsen Twins. WTF are they?

Everyone's favorite horrible kiddie musical act, P4ussian B1ue.

Um, x-post.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

This thread jumped the shark when it became less about people like Amerie and Jessica Alba and more about people with penises.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Jumped the Shark aparently doesn't mean what I thought it did.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Paussian"?

― Dan (Interesting Googleproof) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Why do you stop and *pausse* when contemplating...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, there is almost no chance Jaymc will remember this, but: you know how at the old Jinx cafe, under the original ownership, there was this tiny elf-like ridiculously sweet blonde girl working there? Who also worked in a flower shop and seemed like she'd stepped out of some film that even Amelie would have described as unrealistically twee? At some point she told me she was half Chinese. (And I was going to say something like "you big liar you are the blondest thing ever made," but I didn't.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

*pause* reference to: is it wrong to *pause* when you see women from your racial group with men from other races?

Dan, I came up with Webaneesh for my man D4v3. It is wrong and so right.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Have you seen "Domino" yet? This entire thread is stampeding mightily down the path of one of the best scenes from the movie.

― Dan ("You Would Be A Chinegro") Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA! That is exactly what I've been thinking about the entire time. If only we had a clip.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

KOBLAK!!!!

massive and genuine *LOL*

― Cracks (Crackity), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember that girl, Nabisco! She sounds adorable. I only went to Jinx like two or three times when it was under the original ownership.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCXdc22t_C8

― Dan (THANK YOU, YOUTUBE) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

JAPANIC!!!!!

― Ima call you later, okay? (Laurel), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

NOT FUNYT

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

tom waits as god scene?

xxxxxpost

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 25 May 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

"I miscegenate you long time"

not very sexy, is it?

turn off your overtaxed mind. have a sip of wine. put on a little jazz, and just kiss me you fool.

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Friday, 26 May 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Is someone going to start the spinoff thread with pictures of the worst arguments for miscegenation?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 27 May 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.a-cd.de/images/articles/colormebaddyoung.jpg

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

but back to good examples:

http://membres.lycos.fr/wwfsimulator/lutteurs/apa.jpg

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://gr.bolt.com/oldsite/games/gamecube/action/prince_of_persia_prince.jpg

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 27 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Maria Ozawa

http://aztecproject.com/maria-ozawa.jpg

Crystal Kay

http://ugakara.com/pc/pickup/images/album/ckay/c_kay_pp.jpg

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Saturday, 27 May 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

rob schneider proves this thread premise is dubious, and yet, and yet......
http://www.givememyremote.com/remote/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/RASHIDA_welcome.jpg

― gershy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

Just out of interest, how is the premise of this thread less racists than, say that bottle opener.

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 07:23 (eighteen years ago)

it has been scientifically proven that this thread is 37% less racist than lol black people have big teeth/lips thread

― gershy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 07:31 (eighteen years ago)

too bad mickey's banned, he would have the definitive answer

― gershy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/MixedBreedFace1_wb.jpg/180px-MixedBreedFace1_wb.jpg

I like this mixed-breed doggy from the Wiki "Heterosis" article linked upthread. We are all mixed-breed dogs. Even the people we think of as racially "pure" are the result of one population group mixing with another population group. People have a tendency to move around the planet.

― Beth Parker, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

this thread is bi-racist

― blueski, Thursday, 26 April 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Just so everyone knows, there is no significant genetic difference between the different "races." A biracial child is about as genetically unique as the offspring of white parents, one of whom has blond hair. The majority of the spectrum of melanin variation can be found in any population around the world. In fact, if you wiped out every human population in the world save one, 98% of all genetic variations would still be present. This number is significantly lower for chimps and apes.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for the biology lesson there Jessie.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

yeah it was pretty bleh of me but it really bothers me when people go on about races, especially with regards to which race has the "best women." :(

― jessie monster, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

the idea that sexual attraction is some kind of salve for racism gets uglier and uglier the more i think about it.

― gff, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

salve, schmalve, lemme at them hotto mulattoes.

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

moolattes?

― deej, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

anyway i think this thread was kind of :-/ jaymc

― deej, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

it was all worth it for the rashida jones picture

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

how did that Time magazine article upthread find a way to make a combination of all races look like a generic white woman?

― deej, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

even a computer knows what the racial ideal is

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

heil macintosh

― deej, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

It's creepy in a generalized way (title especially), but, y'know, it's Jaymc, so it's more fun to interpret it as just "people whose mixed ethnicity makes them interesting to look at." I guess that might have been a better title.

xpost yeah I'm kinda wondering if they composited that woman based on current US demographics, or something?

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I cringed when I saw this thread was revived.

What does "but, y'know, it's Jaymc" mean?!

― jaymc, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

you're a weirdo

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

It means people know who you are enough to not assume you're being a big creep or anything!

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Like versus a random googler or something.

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

i kind of thought you meant the opposite of that!

― strongohulkington, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

http://www.dii.unisi.it/~mulatto/img/foto.jpg

― gershy, Saturday, 8 December 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

Il termine mulatto viene usato per indicare una persona nata da genitori che hanno il colore della pelle l'uno nero e l'altro bianco.
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulatto

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago)

hapa.xls

― and what, Saturday, 8 December 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago)

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee234/michelle__7/alfy.jpg

― Heave Ho, Saturday, 8 December 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago)

Have you never seen that picture before, Heave Ho?

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 8 December 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.atomicsportsmedia.com/new/content_images/p1_kidd_getty.jpg

― Mr. Goodman, Saturday, 8 December 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/4923/interracialrachelwf6.jpg

― and what, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:56 (seventeen years ago)

wow

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:57 (seventeen years ago)

all the copies of maus in the world won't make up for that one

― s1ocki, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:05 (seventeen years ago)

hooooooooolllyyyy shiiiiiiiiiitttt

― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

I'd just like to say that while jaymc is cool people, no offense to him, elmo otm and fuck this thread

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:59 (seventeen years ago)

elmo is right but i will never complain about amerie/alba/etc pictures

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 05:13 (seventeen years ago)

The New Face of America looks a bit like Janine Turner

― milo z, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 05:18 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

lol
http://www.lifeintheoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/rashidajones.jpg

― buzza, Monday, 5 January 2009 03:58 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/mulatto/vpost?id=2032207

― all that matters is getting Yui kablooie (tron), Monday, 5 January 2009 07:47 (sixteen years ago)

My 10th cousin:
http://www.theyoungandtherestless.com/imagerepository/rowell_victoria_rowell.jpg

― M.V., Monday, 5 January 2009 23:20 (sixteen years ago)

As for her music, not so much, but otherwise, goddam:

http://musicremedy.com/webfiles/artists/NorahJones/NorahJones-08-big.jpg

― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Monday, 5 January 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

Barack Obama
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, May 25, 2006 7:22 PM (2 years ago)

― "The Gay History of The United States" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 19:19 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

Fuck me @ that Garbage Pail Kid.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 November 2012 14:32 (twelve years ago)

eight months pass...

lol at second shasta post

― The concept of making the Zuiderzee docile (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 10 August 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago)

as a biracial nottie I feel slighted by this thread

― Charlie Slothrop (wins), Saturday, 10 August 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago)

good thred imo

― The Dance Twerking Was MADE So (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 10 August 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago)

rashida jones is a+++

― the late great, Saturday, 10 August 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago)

i am a very straight woman and even i am attracted to rashida jones

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 August 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago)

Fredricka Whitfield? I don't know. (About the biracial part, I mean--she is gorgeous.)

― clemenza, Saturday, 10 August 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/magazine/should-you-fear-the-pizzly-bear.html

It’s possible, of course, that this sort of interbreeding has always occurred and that we’re detecting it only now because we possess the tools to do so. But newly minted hybrids may also be a sign of warming temperatures, overfishing, whaling, shifts in the food web and so on.
By no means should we regard hybrids as an ecological panacea. The flexibility they can provide depends on the continued existence of at least two parental species, after all — hardly a given for many creatures. But the growing evidence of productive hybridization does seem to call for a reconsideration of how we think about species. In some respects, the emerging view is closer to Charles Darwin’s original thinking than to the one we have been living with for nearly a century. Darwin dedicated a chapter to “hybridism” in his book “On the Origin of Species.” And he was vague on how to define species, referring to “the vain search for the undiscovered and undiscoverable essence of the term.” He seemed, that is, to see varieties and species as existing on a loose continuum.
Then in the early- and mid-20th century, the concept of species hardened. Botanists could never ignore hybridization — it occurs between plants too frequently — but interbreeding among animals became the “grossest blunder in sexual preference which we can conceive of,” as one author wrote in 1930.
Looking back, Michael Arnold, a geneticist at the University of Georgia, and long a gadfly to the species orthodoxy, attributes this attitude to worries about miscegenation. Anxiety over racial “purity” perhaps affected how we thought about nature. If this is the case, biology is finally shedding the lingering influence of pseudoscience.
“Biodiversity has developed in a web of life rather than a tree of life,” Arnold told me. That interconnectedness lends strength. “It’s sort of cool that evolution is really messy.”
The scientists I spoke to expressed often a combination of anxiety and awe as they talked about watching animal life respond to multiple pressures with a plasticity they’re only now coming to appreciate. The abiding question is: Will hybridization further erode biodiversity, preserve it, augment it — or some combination of all three?

― j., Thursday, 14 August 2014 23:17 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

Haaretz reported on Thursday that the novel, which deals with a love affair in New York between a Jewish Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, had been banned on the grounds that it "threatened Jewish identity."
"Young people of adolescent age tend to romanticize and don’t, in many cases, have the systemic vision that includes considerations involving maintaining the national-ethnic identity of the people and the significance of miscegenation,” a senior ministry official was quoted as explaining the decision.

― Jebtsundamba Khutuktu (nakhchivan), Saturday, 2 January 2016 17:40 (nine years ago)

this thread in its original unadulerated form sort of stranded between ronaldinho bottle opener obliquity and common or garden dull stupidity

― Jebtsundamba Khutuktu (nakhchivan), Saturday, 2 January 2016 17:43 (nine years ago)

Lamentable

― gfc (wins), Saturday, 2 January 2016 18:15 (nine years ago)

brh or gtfo

― The difficult earlier reichs (darraghmac), Saturday, 2 January 2016 18:24 (nine years ago)

hahahahahaha

― probably.tasteful.forever (imago), Saturday, 2 January 2016 18:26 (nine years ago)

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