Comments on: T-shirt slogans (#9)

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Thu, 08 May 2014 21:08:55 +0000

Thanks.

By: Alrenous

Alrenous — Thu, 08 May 2014 21:08:11 +0000

Epigentics basically means methylation, which can disable genes. If you’re very lucky you can get a deleterious gene disabled, but thermo #2 being what it is…
Methylation’s main function as far as I know is specialization away from stem cells. What makes a liver cell not a muscle cell is mainly methylating all the muscle cell specific genes. Biology is complicated so I’m simplifying, but for the purposes of verbal debate the complications don’t matter.

Methylation is normally genetic. but it is also used to nudge the genome based on environmental cues. This is the only thing that makes it epigenetic, especially as there’s evidence that methylation patterns are partially heritable. For example famine victims have characteristic methylations which they can partially pass on to their kids.

If every human had the same genome +/- methylation, then methylation errors would literally result in a white kid being born to black parents once in a while.

By: E. Antony Gray (@RiverC)

E. Antony Gray (@RiverC) — Thu, 08 May 2014 16:14:54 +0000

Oh yes, Oswalt, you are a minor deity of backtrolling. Great work indeed.

By: Mai La Dreapta

Mai La Dreapta — Thu, 08 May 2014 13:02:15 +0000

I like it. You could easily get most progs to sign on for that, before you explained to them what it means.

By: nydwracu

nydwracu — Thu, 08 May 2014 10:45:24 +0000

What? If they can reduce it, they can increase it, basically by definition — unless epigenetics is a one-way ratchet, in which case theres a one-way ratchet.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 08 May 2014 04:27:53 +0000

Do your comrades know about your part-time job as a neoreactionary T-shirt designer?

By: Zizek

Zizek — Thu, 08 May 2014 03:54:37 +0000

Neo-Re-Action Jackson.

By: E.Antony Gray (RiverC)

E.Antony Gray (RiverC) — Thu, 08 May 2014 03:03:12 +0000

Its chief importance, even if most safely innoculate themselves from its full effect, is to spread the crimethink.

By: Harold

Harold — Thu, 08 May 2014 02:43:16 +0000

The current level of mainstrem smart-fraction disourse on cognitive differences between races is that anyone who would entertain the possibility of such, is a heretic. If the level of discourse moves towards the truth, the next level will be that while it is possible for evolution to have produced small cognitive differences between races any such differences are so small as to be insignificant, and more or less swamped by environmental effects, and anyone who thinks otherwise is a heretic, plus what about epigenetics? If Wade’s book is going to have any effect, the best we could hope is a movement from the first level of discouse I described to the latter. I don’t think it will have such an effect. But I do believe such a change is not too many years away and Wade’s book will move us towards it. When such a change is effected I expect the movement of the discourse towards the truth to accelerate. I know many of you are less sanguine.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:18:13 +0000

I think this would make a good T-shirt. Am I moderate that hates sharp edged feels? Or do I yearn for Juche or the Falange or the dictatorship of proletariat? Hmm... hard to tell.