Re: Evolution: Out of Africa purity is racist, it's racism!

On 3/15/2025 4:11 AM, JTEM wrote:

 On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 08:31 PM, Jack D.Barnes wrote:
      BUT WHAT IS terrible about the OOA is it is so racist.  It
condemns black modern Africans to be closer to chimps.   It is
the basic racist tripe that has existed for 300 years.

Google brings this guy up as one of the authors of a book claiming that Sasquatch was found to exist in 2012.  You likely should not associate with loons like that.  It likely feeds your mental condition, and likely has negative effects on any hope of recovery.
Just one hint, all extant human populations have been evolving for the same amount of time since the last common ancestor that we shared with chimps.  Africans are probably no closer to chimps than are native Americans or Europeans.
What might be considered is that Modern humans that left Africa 60,000 years ago may be closer to the last common ancestor with chimps than Africans because we carry Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA from Africans of 800,000 years ago and some of this variation has been lost from the population that stayed in Africa, so the humans with Neanderthal and Denisovan genetics may be closer to the last common ancestor with chimps than are Africans due to the variation that existed 800,000 years ago, but no longer exists in Africa.
Ron Okimoto

  JTEM:
 Wow. I've long argued that Out of Africa purity is based on
racism but never quite so comprehensible. I'll have to steal
it and use it when you're not around...
 It always struck me that the more dogmatically they defend
Out of Africa purity, the more power they are attributing to
opposing viewpoints. Why else invest so much into suppressing
other models than you view them as some kind of "Threat?" It
has a lot to do with my referring to paleo anthropology as a
social program. They seem entirely convinced that Africans are
inferior and if real science is ever performed that, I dunno,
we're going to nuke Africa?  I don't view humans as "Superior"
or "Inferior." Nature selected us all for a reason. We're all
just trying to work out the path nature took. That's all.
 P.S.  If Out of Asia or Melanesia or Europe is racist, how is
Out of Africa NOT?