Chechnya Is Not Czech Republic, Twitter Reminds Itself (TWEETS)

Started by Martinus, April 20, 2013, 07:49:04 AM

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HVC

#45
April 20, 2013, 09:54:54 PM
lol love the new sig
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Queequeg

#46
April 20, 2013, 09:58:00 PM
God damn it.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

mongers

#47
April 20, 2013, 10:01:49 PM
Not exactly what you both were after, but an interesting photo essay about young women in Chechnya (and some of the screwed up elements of it's culture) :

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/04/young_women_in_chechnya.html
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Razgovory

#48
April 20, 2013, 10:02:25 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 20, 2013, 09:35:35 PM
I don't know all of the details of the pre-19th Century Chechen religion.  It was a pretty weird mix of native practices, Christianity, and a half-dozen different schools of Islam.  But honestly, just about anything is better than the pop-Salafism that Kadyrov is pumping out, or the real-Salafism preached by the insurgents.

Yeah, so I'll take that as retraction.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Razgovory

#49
April 20, 2013, 10:08:05 PM
Now is Spellus's defense there was a lot freakshows in the US that showed "Circassian Beauties", but they weren't actually from the Caucuses.  They were just chicks with big afros.  I think it had it's origin in pornographic stories involving Muslim harems.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#50
April 20, 2013, 10:13:48 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 20, 2013, 10:08:05 PM
Now is Spellus's defense there was a lot freakshows in the US that showed "Circassian Beauties", but they weren't actually from the Caucuses.  They were just chicks with big afros.  I think it had it's origin in pornographic stories involving Muslim harems.

Depends on where the afros were. :perv:
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Razgovory

#51
April 20, 2013, 10:27:17 PM
They could have had them on their knuckles, but it still didn't actually make them Circassian.  Incidentally the idea that Circassians were noticeably beautiful informed the idea of a Caucasian race.  Back in the 19th century (I think), white Europeans were called "Caucasian" because some race scientists thought they were the purest example of European beauty.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

11B4V

#52
April 20, 2013, 10:31:12 PM
Aint nothing wrong with those cave dwellers


"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Razgovory

#53
April 20, 2013, 10:32:46 PM
I genuinely have no idea what you talking about.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#54
April 20, 2013, 10:38:59 PM
The dudes who did the bombing look pretty Mideastern though. Not "pure white European".
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Queequeg

#55
April 20, 2013, 10:40:31 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 20, 2013, 10:38:59 PM
The dudes who did the bombing look pretty Mideastern though. Not "pure white European".
They're not really either. The Caucasus are extremely diverse genetically.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Admiral Yi

#56
April 20, 2013, 11:23:55 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 20, 2013, 08:21:27 PM
Xenophobe doesn't work, but the word "bigot" does.  Use that one instead :)

That one does work because many people use the word bigot to describe a person who believes different groups of people have different group characteristics.  The problem with this usage of bigot, which does work, is that it's meaningless.

DGuller

#57
April 20, 2013, 11:35:13 PM
I would say that acting on such beliefs is where it gets sketchy.  There is no doubt that profiling is effective in measurable terms, useful liberal lies notwithstanding.  The problem is that the damage done to social fabric by employing profiling is immeasurable but huge, which in the end makes its utility dubious at best.

Syt

#58
April 21, 2013, 12:19:47 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on April 20, 2013, 09:45:14 PM
That's kind of the point.  It's Eurasia's hilly truck stop.  Every people in history has made their way through the Caucasus.  And there's also a ton of diversity within the mountains themselves because of the impediments to travel preventing homogenization. 

So what now? Are they a diverse race of crossbreeds or inbred hicks?
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Queequeg

#59
April 21, 2013, 12:41:52 AM
Until about 1100 the second in many different diverse areas (meany many different pockets of different hicks) followed by integration in to incredibly diverse Caucasian makeup.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."
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