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[–]MagicMike[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

While wasting my time reading Reddit, someone posted a River map of Africa. No one thought to point out that the major rivers don’t connect, hindering commerce and growth. The rivers also have falls near where they empty into oceans, again hindering commerce. For these and many other reasons, Africa is a ghetto continent. The smart ones drift away and became Whites, East Asians, and so forth. The stupid ones stayed behind and gave us our wonderful ghetto dwellers today.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Let's be honest though there's a million ways still to overcome the point you make about rivers but sub-saharans never bothered to address the issue. I think there's scant evidence of any sea fishing for sub-saharans as well. Arabic people crossed over from the Arabian peninsula and left their genetic mark. Madagascar was settled by sea faring Austronesians who sailed half way across the world. Even the inward looking Chinese managed to make it to North America. Nothing need be said of European exploration efforts. Blacks just sat there for aeons doing from what we can tell next to nothing of interest. Aboriginals in Australia too. I'm a 'racist' and even I find myself shocked when you discover the lack of ingenuity on that continent. (North Africa obviously doesn't count.)

To your point it's obviously both but there's no environment that can make you exceed your genetic potential there's only environments that allow you to fulfill it. That's why things like epigenetics have become such a popular pop-science topic because they lend themselves to the idea of large scale malleability of humanity which just doesn't seem to be true. Much like Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union egalitarians always fall for these goofy ideas that they can just radically change human nature and cancel 50,000 years of separate evolution with their 'science'.

In my opinion to a large degree you're born to be what you are and you better bloody get used to that fact or you'll live in perpetual misery. Willpower is real, the human spirit is real but so is biology.

[–]MagicMike[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I have read that Central Africans never had wheels nor a written language. They’re basically apes with a little smattering of more intellect. How such beings adapt to first world economies in any way is a mystery. Notice how any black who accomplishes any intellectual endeavor appears to have some white ancestry.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

it blows my mind that people couldn't think to invent the wheel, it seems so obvious. Like did they never notice how a round stone rolled down a hill?

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    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    but then for thousands of years they did lol

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      [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      no i countered your excuse with facts and reality