Denisovans
3rd October 2011
Steve Sailer loves to poke around.
For the last couple of decades, there has been a popular theological concept that every living human being was 100% descended from modern humans who came Out of Africa about 50,000 years ago, so therefore there hasn’t been enough time for evolution to cause any changes among people, so, therefore, Science Proves the complete genetic equality of all human racial groups.
So, what happened to the not-so-modern humans who were around back then, like the Neanderthals? Well, to Prove Racism Wrong, they had to have been utterly exterminated, the victims of a 100% genocide with no living descendants whatsoever. You see, old theories that some of the old non-African humans weren’t completely obliterated were racist, because that would imply that living humans aren’t all identical by descent, so they had to be utterly wrong. So, the old humans had to die. You can’t make anti-racist omelet without exterminating a few lineages.
In reality, it’s not actually a good idea to get too worked up over some theory you hold about the distant past. It’s especially not a good idea to create political/moral/religious dogmas dependent upon some assumption you make about the far past. You never know what somebody might dig up.