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Were You Politically Scarred In Your Youth?; Stop The Vicious Anti-Neanderthal Prejudice!

The New York Times provides an interesting graphic (via Kevin Drum) that shows how voter preferences seem to be shaped, negatively or positively, by the party then holding the presidency when the voter is 20 years old.  Drum, only too predictably, notes the massive gap opening up in the present generation and associates the drop in […]

The New York Times provides an interesting graphic (via Kevin Drum) that shows how voter preferences seem to be shaped, negatively or positively, by the party then holding the presidency when the voter is 20 years old.  Drum, only too predictably, notes the massive gap opening up in the present generation and associates the drop in support for the GOP with the “Christian right’s social neanderthalism.”  Now, in all seriousness, if you had to name the top five things that took place in the Bush Era at Republican instigation, would anything actually related to the Christian right or “social neanderthalism”?  Yes, there was the Schiavo hysteria and there were the gay “marriage” bans, but do we really think that the twentysomethings of America are deeply engaged by these questions one way or the other?  No.  It is very simply the war that has driven so many young people to reject the GOP.  For me personally, I can’t say that I was terribly tempted to become a Republican before the Bush Era but I am certainly committed to never being one in the future; in that sense, I am part of the same trend, though I was 20 when Clinton was President. 

Speaking of “neaderthalism,” if the Neanderthals were wiped out by the Cro-Magnons in a prehistoric genocide, shouldn’t that make the Neanderthals a retroactively Officially Protected Victim Group deserving of possible military intervention via time travel?  Instead of “Never again!” the rallying cry could be, “Never before!”  References to “neanderthalism” show just how widespread the anti-Neanderthal hate still is after hundreds of thousands of years–when will it end?  In this light, I think we can see that all of this anti-Neanderthal prejudice is just a deep-seated subspeciesist animus that reflects the narrative of power and domination of the descendants of the Cro-Magnon oppressors.  I think someone should start petitioning for Neanderthal reparations and a formal apology from the leaders of all the nations of the world that have benefited from this crime against quasi-humanity.  Fight subspeciesism!  Protect Neanderthal rights!

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