#2 2008-07-28 22:24:32
looks more like an advert for polymorph's relationships...
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#3 2008-07-29 01:14:21
karenw wrote:
I really thought this was a joke page at first, but it appears to be real.
As the Token Evil Demon Possessed Racist, I’ll bite and ask why you think it’s racist to acknowledge racial differences may be more than a matter of skin tint. Please be specific in your reply.
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#4 2008-07-29 01:48:06
Various ethnic groups are more prone to certain disorders whether they stem from genetic or environmental issues. This site bears a somewhat closer look, though: the company selling the vitamins makes a big deal about Vitamin D deficiencies in Hispanics, citing their particular vulnerability to the problem. Oh, but wait. It turns out African Americans have that problem, too. Oh, and what do you know? Caucasians are plagued with the same deficiency.
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#5 2008-07-29 01:48:58
Oh, and Fnord. You may be our Token Evil Demon Possessed Racist, but you'll always be my favorite Token Evil Demon Possessed Racist.
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#6 2008-07-29 02:17:31
I prefer to think that fnord is possessed by a "good demon"
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#7 2008-07-29 03:05:54
fnord wrote:
Please be specific in your reply.
Taint's already barking up the right tree, but try diabetes instead, which--like prison and unmarried motherhood--appears in non-caucasian populations (in English-speaking countries) to different degrees. Not in that the disease/condition differently affects the various races, but that some are definitely more 'at risk' than others. I'm not sure that a sugar pill (placebo) would have helped these groups. In Phoenix and AZ, f'rinstance, the last stats I saw--and I am not fudging this one--indicated fully 51% of the local Pima tribe were diabetic. That's atrocious, even if you wanted to go with the old "can't metabolize alcohol" standby.
That supplements exist claiming to serve any number of outright fatuous treatment modes isn't new. However, an extraordinary amount of our 'liberal' science is tested almost exclusively on, you guessed it, white males between 18 and 35. That some should attempt to serve different populations is actually quite noble, but there is unfortunately very little empirical evidence to suggest it would do much good. Age and gender are about the outer limit of what present day vitamins can address (I am including all those heart, eyesight, and energy formulations). Anyone claiming to do better should go sit in the corner with HerbaLife and Amway.
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#8 2008-07-29 09:13:11
I'd like to point out that Asians apparently don't need any extra vitamins. Jesus, how are we supposed to compete with that?
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#9 2008-07-29 10:43:36
Do they have a special Caucasian-Kenyan-Indonesian mix? I need to send some to a certain politician that has been doing a lot of traveling recently.
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#10 2008-07-29 13:01:23
fnord wrote:
As the Token Evil Demon Possessed Racist, I’ll bite and ask why you think it’s racist to acknowledge racial differences may be more than a matter of skin tint. Please be specific in your reply.
There you are, fnord! I knew I could get you to come out if I used the right verbiage. 
How's it going?
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#11 2008-07-29 13:37:40
it's a conspiracy by the Jews and the Asians. They've finally teamed up, cause they're the only people on earth who can take the long view. Those vitamins are packed with substances designed to lower the birthrate to nill.
Needs better marketing. White Man Native Multi, SpicTrums, and the ones for the black folks needs chrome spinning bottle caps.
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