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[–] ScreaminMime 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

I used to work wit a lady who claimed she had memories of being on a slave ship... I think she just took the movie Amastad way too seriously.

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[–] sLnTsRvC 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Huh, so Japan owes me how much for my grandfathers Bataan death march?

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[–] AndrewBlazeIt 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Hohboy, then the English owe me a shitload of fuckin' money.

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[–] 12738905? 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I believe it because I'm sure my extreme hatred for niggers has nothing to do with me watching the constant chimpouts, thievery, and random senseless killings on an hourly basis. So I must have inherited that as well.

Wait, I'm a northerner so that's not possible. Turns out I just hate niggers because they are niggers.

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[–] BAAC 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

No... you... fucking... can't...

I hate these people. How dare they cheapen the real suffering of trauma victims with the fake angst of lazy motherfuckers. I fucking hate these people.

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[–] SwiftLion 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You, sir, are opining over what science actually has to say. This is a real observed thing.

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[–] BAAC ago 

I work with PTSD patients. There is a difference between pre-conditioning, learned behaviors and catastrophic trauma. If the chicks continue to function without showing signs of a spiraling stress cycle or other clearly defined PTSD indicators (as you note in the above example), they don't have PTSD. Experiences that cause PTSD are well defined. You can't experience stuck points if you've never had the experience. I don't doubt that you can be genetically pre-dispositioned towards stress, and that historic events can leave markers. But it's not PTSD.

These people are using the term because they think it's cool to have PTSD. Thus my hatred for them.

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[–] BoraxTheFungarian 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

You can, its just, slaves come from every race... Some people use it as an excuse others use their history as a tool. They, the ones who would use epigenetics as an excuse, see laziness and deceit as a tool. Epigenetics though.

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[–] BoraxTheFungarian 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Wait until they realize how many white people were slaves. Let's just say Catharine the Great wasn't great to everyone.

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[–] SwiftLion 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I've seen research like this before. It's a true thing. Regardless of what this article says (I haven't even read it yet), there is an effect I've read about that sounds like the basis for the same.

Take a homozygous chicken line, and breed yourself a dozen of them. Separate them into two cohorts of six. To one set, treat them nice: give them lots of food, make them feel safe, and so on. To the other, put them on an electric wire floor so you can just shock the shit out of them whenever you please. Do it reasonably often. The moment eggs are laid, take them away, so that they have minimal hormonal influence from the parent, and then raise the chicks together.

Even though there has been no opportunity for the chicks to learn behavior from their parents, you will easily be able to tell the "trauma chicks" away from the "treat chicks". The implication is that epigenetic markers can be switched on and off, and they can select "safe" or "neurotic" from inside a single genome.

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[–] voats4goats ago 

Isn't this the plotline for assassin's Creed? WE'S LIVIN OUR ANCESTUHS PASTS AND SHEIT

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