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[QUOTE]Originally posted by tropicals redacted: [QB] @Zaharan Yes, good points, but unfortunately the common sense, logic and reasonable fairness that you bring to the debate appears to hold little currency with a number of academics, nor certain individuals among the internet crowd... Just to make it clear that I'm no longer going to respond to/engage with the Egyptsearch members in this thread who've admitted to trolling, or who say on this forum that I've exhibited "pedo-ish" behaviour. There comes a point when one needs to stop engagement and I've reached it. [QUOTE] Whomsoever the "Professor" is it seems that he may be propping up yet another strawman. Diop never said ALL Egyptians at ALL times were ALL black. He noted that Asiatics, particularly in the later periods, and then people like Greeks towards the tail end, had more influence. Since some of these folk settled in Egypt,of course ALL Egyptians everywhere could not be ALL black. By propping up this strawman, they can divert attention from the primary fact of the indigenous African character of the Egyptians. It is also an excellent diversionary mechanism to dismiss the diversity ofAfricans. People with narrow noses can thus be classified as "non black" and then allocated to a "mixed race." Its a standard diversionary, propaganda tactic they use. But narrow noses are nothing special in "sub-Saharan" Africa. Long term life in High altitude locales, locales with cooler temperatures, or hot, dry desert environments can yield narrow noses and do so in Africa, without needing any "race mix" to explain why. A final use of the diversion is to claim the pious mantle of objectivity. Race some airily sniff, is "irrelevant" or "unimportant." Fine. But if this is so, (a) why do you insist on the "mixed race" theme, and (b) why do you keep using stereotypical "true negro" types to de-Africanize the Egyptians and distort the diversity of Africans? and (c) Why don't you apply the same "true type" reasoning to white people and likewise define a stereotypical "true white" against which, all else can be juxtaposed, and (d) Why don't you apply the same "mixed race" models to white Europeans and call them "mixed race" when they have African DNA like some Greeks, Italians or southern Europeans for example? It is these hypocrisies that are among the central items still at issue. [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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