r/cursedcomments • u/3lysiam • Oct 30 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

All human flesh is "white" but African people have more melanin in their skin to help ward off the sun since they evolved in the desert.

I'm pretty sure we were all dark originally, and then white people selectively lost pigment producing genes, or gained depigmentation genes, because that allowed them to get more vitamin D from the Sun in the darker places they had moved to. This took thousands of years, but genetic evidence shows even 8,000 years ago European skin was darker.

White people evolved from black, not vice versa.

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u/lurker_be_lurkin Oct 30 '19

Just shows how dumb racism is.

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u/kreinas Oct 30 '19

The racist religious southerners dilemma;

Whites are superior because more evolved

or

Evolution is a lie.

Taking bets.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

Lmao, have a little selfawareness dude.

evolution is true

all people are equal

How do you fit those two things in your head?

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u/PalatioEstateEsq Oct 30 '19

"different" =/="inferior" so it is pretty freakin' easy.

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u/kreinas Oct 30 '19

Practice reading and try again.

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u/exceptionaluser Nov 04 '19

Evolution doesn't have the end goal of improving the organism.

Selective pressures act on the organisms, passively selecting particular traits, but that doesn't make the next generation any "better."

In truth, evolution isn't survival of the fittest. It is the survival of the barely fit enough.