Ariana Grande Backlash, ‘Blackfishing’ Controversy Question, Gene Edited Babies Cause Outcry & More!
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If they can prove the dances pre-date fortnite, are a paid transaction and that the person suing is the creator of the moveset, they should be able to win. But the law doesn't exactly keep up with everything. I think the issue is though that right now dance moves are free market. No one has properly copyrighted a move set. and while something like donald faison's scrubs dance is clearly ripped frame for frame movement perfect there is no precedent to pay him for his 'contribution'. Unless epic want to honour him or any future dances. but if this ever gets to be the case where certain dances get protected all that will likely happen is they will get licensed, and we as a consumer will have to pay more for them in whatever game puts a price tag on it.
Hey Phil, just so you know the first Ariana meme is a photoshopped tan in order to create more controversy. Other photos of that night show her in her natural tan.
Philip DeFranco oh God if Hollywood gets ahold of this technology we're all screwed
Melatonin is for sleep. Melanin is for the color of your skin.
I was about to say that. I take melatonin for sleeping and I just had a frickin panic attack googling that. Lol
I thought the same, so I Googled it and apparently it can alter your skin pigments. Although my son takes it and is still pale as a ghost, just like me 😂
@@MommyOfMutants Username checks out
And Melanotan-II is the peptide that is injected in order to increase your melanin, and what was actually being referred to.
Don’t comment if you are white
It feels like the people who are accusing Arianna Grande of "talking black" are the same people who told articulate black kids that they are talking "white" in high school.
I've never, ever heard personally, or by any report, of persons of color being accused of "talking white". I've never heard of being grammatically correct and articulate being a specific racial speech pattern, such as white. Unless you're talking a small group of kids teasing another kid of his speech patterns within an ethnic group, that always happens. That isn't a large group that trends nationwide, which is what we're talking about, "Cultural Appropriation" bullcrap.
Does it happen that much ?
@@thedude7319 it happens enough for black kids across different countries to form a connection with other black kids on being teased or mocked for being articulate. I'm a Black Brit and can relate to African Americans experiences with their character being judged as "less black" or suspect for simply being articulate and that's not even coming from just other black people, it also comes from other race of people who are surprised that you aren't speaking some form of slang and feel the need to mention how well spoken you are before even knowing your background.
Tl;dr, in my experience and others I've come across, yeah, it does.
@@hepchaos I'm glad you have never personally experienced it but I find it weird that you haven't come across it any form what so ever. Maybe Google it, im sure you will find a more detailed example and explanation than what I can type up on UA-cam.
@@severussnape8040 oh that's a decent example, I remember the episode of Fresh Prince where Calton was rejected from joining a fraternity (or something) because he wasn't "black enough". Good example of it in media, thanks for bringing that up.
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You pick up speech patterns from the people around you and the media you consume. There is nothing wrong with how Ariana is talking and the fact that her speech patterns have changed. I think most of us have strange mixes of influences on our speech patterns and that is part of what makes us unique and this is something that is fluid and ever changing. The hiphop media I consume has influenced my speech, so has the queer media I consume, my educated parents have influenced my speech, the stoners I hung out with in high school influenced my speech, my boyfriend has influenced my speech, my region has influenced my speech. The so-called "blaccent" is an American dialect and you are basically asking non-black people to go through mental gymnastics to ensure that they do not pick up any speech patterns from their friends or hiphop media. Or else segregate themselves from people who speak a certain way and from hip hop media. We also express ourselves differently in different situations so I wouldn't even accept that as evidence that she is "putting on" these mannerisms.
I totally agree.
Took the words outta my mouth. Thank you.
Well said and I completely agree
Very eloquently put, I totally agree.
Grande is a Nickelodeon kid. Don't be naive. Of course she's making an accent. She's Italian and grew up in Florida to wealthy parents, not Inglewood.
I can't stand when people say that you can speak an ethnicity. She's not speaking "black" she's using slang to sound relatable to her audience. I can't tell you how many times people (black and white people) have told me I sound white and how insulting that is because I don't speak like a stereotypical black person which by the way is crazy because I'm surrounded by people of color and none of them speak like Ari.
Rachelle Cham I have the same problem!
Thannk you
Rachelle Cham this stereotyping has most likely originated from most of the ghettos (per capita) being populated with black people. This has led to the culture of blacks speaking a certain way. It’s more of a culture thing, not necessarily skin color. It’s not really racist to claim that a race speaks a certain way. Most black people (in America) speak with a certain cadence (as well as most other cultures across the world).
i think its worth considering how economic status affects our language. people of a higher class avoid slang, etc. i think this gets thrown in with race somehow because we live in a race-obsessed country where everyone was socialized to associate wealth with race (peoples opinion on this varies by how much they believe in institutional racism)
Next thing in the news ... Someone getting sued for using slang because black people copyrighted it .... What has this world come too... :(
I’m sorry but... ghetto phrases/speech does not define me as a black person. I personally take offense to broken speech being constantly attributed to People of Color. Come on y’all “Blaccent???”
AAVE/BVE is a thing! I think it’s a reach to come for Ariana for it but people will always do the most.
I had this friend in middle school who was constantly bullied by other girls of color because she "was trying to sound white." She responded, "not white, just educated." 💁
@@tatsusama3192 also 'proper'. Got that a lot when I was younger.
I think that its interesting black is considered a race in America when it's not a god damn race it's a ethnicity. For example, you can't live in Africa and someone ask you "what race are you" And give them the answer of "black". They'd be like no shit, so are 90% of Africans here. Black in America being a ethnicity verses race is important to distinguish because like you said not everybody who's black follows the American black culture. I was raised by a Mexican Mom, who was raised partly by her Jewish grandma. I absolutely do not follow black culture. I have nothing against it, and while Nigerian, Ghanan, and whatever the fuck may be my race, I consider my ethnicity to be more in line with Hispanic and Jewish American culture, and being how pasty I am, I look like it too. My point is, depending on my background I couldve easily considered myself black, or I couldve considered my white, or hell, both. But to say that a specific ethnicity has ownership of a culture is ridiculous, people's culture is created by welp you guessed it, the culture they hang around
except you don't see white people talking that way unless they're obsessed with black culture...
I'm pro gene editing for fighting genetic diseases but there would be demand for super children and I wouldn't be surprised if people were bribed into doing so. It's hard but having more tools in the box versus disease is something humanity desperately needs.
Here is the bottom line: Once we become capable of producing offspring which will be immune to disease, more intelligent, stronger, better vision, etc... it becomes immoral to create unedited children. Think about it; you are effectively disadvantaging each normal (unedited) child and sentencing them to a lifetime of disease and weakness.
I don't understand why people get offended when some of a different ethnicity looks too much like another ethnicity! Like we should be embracing each others history not saying that 'I can have this and you can't'.
Etienne Marquis stop being dumb. You can’t attempt to try and become another race and not deal with all the struggles of that race are you dumb?
"I've been playing this 33 year long game of hide and seek with the sun." HAHAHAH, relateable.
Just make sure you get enough vitamin D from food. Milk tends to be fortified with it, even almond milk for those that are lactose intolerant.
When I tan I go orange then dark as night. ( And that’s regular sunlight in a tanking booth I bet I’d look like a tangerine.). I haven’t done that in many years. Lol the 80s were rough on skin and hair. Do we really believe these women are laying out in the sun damaging their money makers?
Me too
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Yep, this definitely goes on top of my "Philly D quotes that best describes your life" list while making me laugh enough to almost spray my keyboard with coffee, thanks Phil...
Actual blackface: painting your face black while acting like a fool to mock an entire race of people.
Tanned skin and curly hair: Because you think it looks beautiful/fashionable.
There's a very clear difference here, one is mocking while the other is celebrating/admiring.
"This is digital blackface"
@Gary Tyler leftists don't understand genetics
Yeah that tan was definitely natural and not at all fake...
Re: melatonin, totally speculating here, but I bet she just thinks that melatonin is the same a melanin 😂
Mt2 peptide
Is what she was talking about
@@KingSwoleNerd Ohh I see, thank you!
treedevil I looked it up and taking melatonin ( usually taken for sleep ) can actually darken your skin
My cousin is white, but she's always had very dark skin and dark curly hair. I don't know much about how genetics work, but I'm guessing maybe somewhere in her history there's a black ancestor. People shouldn't be vilified because of their skin color, right?
Remember there was a time where everyone in Europe had black hair and brown eyes. It wasn't until genetic mutations made it so everyone got their hair and eyes lighters. Now dark is more dominant so of course there are still europeans with dark colored hair.
i have curly hair and my ancestor come mostly from france and ireland... curly hairs are not an exclusivity of black people.
Thomas Cloutier-Guay lol not all french people are white tho
@@chenqingsspirit in 1600 pretty much
Ariana is 25% north African and heavily Greek and her dad is naturally very tanned.
I'm black, and I care more about experiments around crispr babies that are immune to HIV than whether or not someone is "blackfishing".
That’s true, you’re like allowed to talk about more than one thing though. I don’t mean you have to, I just see comments about how people should be talking about something else when they are, they’re just not there yknow?
holy shit is that a thing?
@@iconocast Is what a thing? Crispr babies?
Not immune just resistant and with the gene being altered now they are have no defense against West Nile or Japanese encephalitis
Your username is a fine reflection of your character. The severity of any contemporary issue should be society's basis for concern, opposed to its relation to historical tragedies. Because events like this constitute MSM's increasingly polarizing, dishonest, and pandering narrative for "racism", it makes it difficult for the opposition to empathize with victims of actual racism, which is just sickening to think about.
I think the idea of “talking black” is a bad idea entirely. It makes it so black people are forced to speak a certain way and if they speak in “proper English “ (not using common slang in hip hop) or in a high soft pitch that they’re talking white? I think in general it’s a bad idea to assign a way of talking to a race. It can be assigned to a region or culture like speaking Southern or the Boston and New York accents are good examples where regardless of your race based of who you learned to speak from greatly influences your day to day language
I also think that based off the people you are around you kinda change how you talk which is probably why Arriana is talking different now. I don’t think she’s trying to “talk black” also I know a lot of Mexicans and whites that talk that way so like.. seems stupid to me. If anything saying that seems racist 🤷♀️
Just seems counter productive to go on about "we need equality for all race and genders" but still get upset and continue to exclude certain things as "black things" "gay things" "white things" ect ect.
We as humans are hypocritical of our own preaching to others.
NikkiNeon56 You made a good point but if u are living in this world with full reality and no privilege you would know that “equality” will never exist. There might be movements towards it but due to human nature that would not happen. And yeah, we do need to at times exclude things, do u want a world full of the same traditions, culture or things?
Hypocritical? More like you are willfully obtuse. The very concept of culture exists because we UNDERSTAND that different groups of people have different ways of navigating life.
@@tbg6070 Yeah but culture can apply to anyone regardless of how you look when you're born. I could be born in Poland, grow up in the UK and have British culture.
As a black a woman, I don’t really care when it comes to other races wearing different hairstyles. It doesn’t always look right on other races but to each their own. When it comes to the way someone speaks, I don’t really care about that either. A majority of slang and the way people are talking is taken from black culture. We’ve come up with most of the lingo being used. That’s just facts. It’s whatever at this point. As long as you’re not saying the n-word, we cool. However, I do have a problem with purposefully darkening your skin to look black. Because of the painful history that black people had to endure with blackface, I believe it’s just something you shouldn’t do. There are just certain things you don’t do. You don’t say the n-word and you don’t do blackface. If you wanna tan cuz you don’t wanna look pasty, then fine, but look like a tanned white person and stop trying to pass as black.
My main issue when it comes to other races culturally appropriating black culture is the hypocrisy of it all. Like it’s really funny that the very same features of black women that white people called ugly, like our big lips, big butts, and dark skin, are the very same features that white women are falling over themselves trying to get. It’s ridiculous. And it still happens. White women that have enhanced their bodies to look like black women are still preferred to actual black women by many people. It’s so sickening and disheartening. Another issue is that when you are culturally appropriating black culture you are only getting the positives without any of the consequences. Like this is so frustrating. You have no idea. It’s cute and cool when white people try to speak like black people. But if I talk using the slang of my people then I’m uneducated and ghetto. Y’all want our hairstyles so bad but we out here getting fired because the natural state of our hair has been deemed “unprofessional”. The double standards go on and on. It’s disgusting. It just feels like sometimes society doesn’t actually want black women. They want white women that look like black women. And that is not ok.
As a final note, stop comparing race and gender like I’ve seen some the comments do. Transracial people are not a thing. You can’t be a transrace person. Please stop that. What we not gone do is act like this is a valid argument. You sound so stupid and ignorant when you say stuff like that. Miss me with that bs.
JessieLoves1D I completely agree. I think you made your point eloquently.
As a nonblack POC I agree with all the points you made in your post. I find it disturbing how many people in this comment section claim that “if gender can be chosen so can race” because those two are incomparable. And that discussion deserves its own video to talk. In addition, I really like your emphasis on how black women experience the consequences of having black features while white women/nonblack women will be praised, exotified, and only experience the positives of having black features. At the end of the day these women can take off the makeup, change their hair, and continue to live their lives as nonblack. This is problematic and shows that these people will not ever have to experience the level of racism and discrimination that black women experience. It’s just a costume to them. And it’s even more messed up that black women lose either way: they are the new beauty standard but then at the same time their beauty is not accepted when they have these features. Thank you for your eloquent post. I wish more people would read your comment rather than claiming folks are being “easily offended”
I hear what you are saying but who specifically says those features are ugly then turns around and gets them? I want to believe but everyone person who claims this can't give me a specific example of a person making those statements. Who says black features are ugly then turns around and gets them? I feel it's a false perception people are projecting. I maybe wrong which is why I need a example. Thank you
@@individualwiseman7266 This probably isn't that same thing, but I was bullied from daycare to 9th grade about my big lips and my big hips. There was a girl who made fun of me for this for a really long time, then started wearing butt padding.
@@radioactive_baby0706 Sounds like a person who was jealous of you and made fun of you because of something they could never have. They sound very insecure about themself. I hope that one incident doesn't make you judge the whole world negatively. Most tend to be kind in my experience.
Again, I feel like there's a handful of people trying to convince me that, being black, I should go ahead and be offended by things that don't at all offend me in any way. I don't care how Ariana Grande talks. I don't care how dark a white person's skin is. It gets old seeing stuff like this come up over and over again. It just feels manufactured when every person is scrutinized and demonized becasue a small group of people want to make a big deal out of nothing.
I agree in a way. I just heard about this a few days ago because I don't care about instagram. I looked into it and where it bothers me a bit is some of these women get products or are asked to do sponsorships for WoC items (like hair care or makeup). They aren't women of color and they should refuse these offers but of course they don't. That's where it's frustrating. Yes you admire the hustle but I think about ACTUAL WoC who missed opportunities because of women who aren't fully honest.
It gets tiring to just be angry at everyone and everything. Seen a bunch of girls say no they just like darker skin, nothing to do with wanting to be black or wanting to adopt black culture. What ever happened to people saying "mind your own business" and just let people enjoy themselves and have fun as long as they aren't harming anyone or being offensive? This outrage culture people try brewing up is crazy. It's just trendy to hate on white people and make them a joke atm. A lot of white women now want to sorta associate with blacks now since it's "trendy" and look at dating black men as something "cool" and fetish it in a weird way.
I know right? It just like people want everyone back into groups... toxic tribalism
Its often upper class white kids offended on behalf of people. Chances are if you told them you're not offended they would call you uncle tom etc. They suffer from white saviour complex.
I'm not a fan of ariana grande but the internet literally can't hear or see anything without accusing something or someone of being offensive, it's got to the point where the only way to not be called racist, sexist, etc is to do nothing, because the moment you do anything you're targeted with abuse. People need to stop looking so hard for negative things in everyone else, otherwise you'll start start seeing things that aren't there and start labeling perfectly normal and good people as racists
Some people in these movements see doing nothing as also being "problematic" and "being part of the problem" if you don't wholly agree publicly with them every time something new comes up, so really, there's no escape
I _am_ a fan of her music, but screw her, these celebrities who want to pander to identity politics deserve to be eaten by it.
Seriously it doesn't matter what u say anymore. There is always someone that is going to get upset and start some shit and say you're racist, sexist, this, this, or that. It's so ridiculous already. But I believe the government set this in motion. Years ago it was said that the government is doing things to slowly start taking all our rights away. They gonna start with the small things and before u know it the big issues will eventually get included, freedom of speech, freedom period. These will all eventually not exist. The government will want to basically turn us into robots like, put chips in us. And we will literally be there damn puppets. It's so scary.
Your not alone. I am tired of it too.
Doing nothing doesn't even work. Taylor Swift intentionally stayed out of politics and still had articles about her because she wouldn't join in.
So happy you talked about CRISPR! I’ve been working with the CRISPR cas 9 system for almost 2 years in cancer research and it’s the most incredible thing! They’re doing clinical trials in China right now for stage IV lung cancer using CRISPR as well. There are so many more uses for this technology within modern medicine other than editing embryonic DNA.
Have you heard about Dr. John Lewis's work in Alberta? Apparently his team has found something like 11 target genes (several of them are very promising), blocking any of which will prevent metastasis. So, yeah, we essentially already have a cancer cure, it's just about 8-15 years out from clinical use.
My dad was Sicilian and was very dark skinned but was considered white on government forms. People used to think he was Latino he never said was people just assumed. Does that make him fishing a culture because of the way he was born.
No, because he's not purposely changing his skin tone and isn't benefitting from doing so.
Bloodrane yeah, and I totally think it’s wrong for people to purposefully change their skin tone. I just feel like there might be people who would be accused but aren’t. But the people who are need to stop. It’s not ok
@@bloodrane8885 How are they benefiting from it, if people of color are oppressed? Wouldn't it be bad to have darker skin?
@@dcat5817 Being oppressed doesn't mean there are no opportunities for you, it means there are less than there are for everyone else. Example: They are benefiting from darkening their skin by being featured on platforms meant to give exposure to models of color. Even though they do not have to deal with the struggles or obstacles that come with being a black model, they are taking advantage of resources meant to help black models overcome those obstacles and achieve success.
melanin =/= melatonin
ive gotten them mixed up before
melatonin can cause some people to increase their melanin production in skin cells. Vitamin K can as well
She said she TAKES melatonin.
@@Elena-gv5wi interesting!
@flmvdvsrg Same!!!
In regards to people getting a "blaccent", it makes sense. I've hanged out with people that have a different accent than I and over time I've adopted that accent. If Arianna Grande hangs out with people that have the "black" accent, she will probably pick it up after a while.
Exactly. It's like those people never had friends that talks differently than themselves or have different accents.
You da best Philly D!
So we just gonna ignore all the white dances fortnite had put in their game, and just try to label them as "stealing culture."
Mr. Roombastic bout time white people had something stole from them
It's not "culture" being stolen. Its just whine babies being whine babies.
Hence why nobody cares about them.
@@radlilghost9326 Culture can't be stolen, only shared.
@@lickmyboobies5084 the carlton dance was copied from courtney cox dancing in a dance from a Bruce Springsteen video Alfonso Ribeiro said it himself
In the second story I think it’s more outrage culture. My family is Panamanian. My oldest sister is very light except in the summer and would pass under curtain circumstances as white or bi-racial.... where as I clearly do not.
But that shouldn’t matter and our grandmother on my fathers side is very pale to the point of being mistaken as white.
But at the end of the day, rather than making assumptions about people’s culture or heritage before grafting expectations on them, why can’t you just ask and show actual interest in people as individuals instead of being lazy and trying to put them in a box?
as someone who is b/w biracial... these black women promo pages seriously need to ask permission before posting that stuff anyways. some people might not want to be advertised by their race. like the models dont even identify as black and neither do i, but my sisters do. especially in ambiguous cases we should let people speak for themselves
@Nice Touch A woman's hips absolutely get bigger/wider with age as she enters her child-bearing years. Well, most women's hips anyways. But yeah, not lips.
You and your sister have the same father and mother?
Your grandma is not mixed?
Some day. Maybe
I think most humans know what's really going on, we live on a giant rock with moss on it, flying thru space, we call it Earth. So why dont people grasp what it is and stop acting so stupid about colors and stuff.. geeze
So on the question of baby edits, I was born with a hereditary spinal disease and if I had a child, they would also be born with this disease. People like to have pride in their disabilities but honestly I just don't want to be in pain. I want a child one day but how could I bring someone into this world just to be in this kind of pain? I wish they could have edited this out of me before birth and if I had the choice to have a baby and make sure they were never in pain, I would definitely edit them healthy. I don't know why we would want to keep these genes..
Adopt. You'd get to raise, love, and SAVE a baby. There would be no genetic spinal issues. Everyone's a winner.
@@jimmyjoejoeshabadoojr yup! That's the plan! Not any time soon though, haha
Maybe we can get there one day, it will probably fall under ethical medicine to 'fix' disease carrying genes. But this rogue operation is not the way to do it, this is the exact opposite of how things should move forward. Very dangerous, uncontrolled, unverified, highly illegal, this is exactly how designer babies WILL happen and a lot of people will suffer because of it. As much as we'd like to help everybody, we're not there yet, not scientifically, not culturally.
@ugh no
Makes a fantastic point. The science of gene editing is fascinating, and there is a lot of good that can be done in that field, but editing genes can also be very dangerous if we’re not careful. Sometimes it can be hard to see the long term consequences of a short time fix when it comes to gene editing. It’s not the consequences of editing out a genetic disease and disability for a child that’s can be dangerous, but what such technology could lead to under the control of scientists who don’t check themselves.
@@dvidsuba it already sounds like botox. There is sketchy places that will do it for cheap and often shotty work. Soon we will have gene editing that is illegal so their child can have blue eyes and blonde hair unnaturally.
Philip,
You create the best content on UA-cam.
Yoga Instructor and 12-year practitioner here! She sounded triggered by that question; it sounds like she was really affected by other people thinking she was a "freak" or "witch" and wants others to know that she paved the path despite that feedback. I'm glad she's happy, healthy and found what works for her!
I will never understand why people complain about cultural appropriation. Why do people think that is humanly possible to grow up in a globalized word and NOT be influenced by other cultures. If you are a little white girl that grows up in a black community OF COURSE you will be influenced by black culture because those are the people you grew up around. just in the same vein that I have told the "I am not black" but actual black people my ENTIRE life because I grew up in a predominately white neighbourhood and had the opportunity to participate in activities where I generally was always the only black kid. My nanny growing up was Italian so I speak Italian and my childhood best friend who family practically raised me because my mom always had to work was Spanish. so not only do I speak Spanish but I was raised in a Spanish household with all the Spanish traditions and customs does that me I cannot express those things because of the colour of my skin? Why it okay to eat Chinese food, and Indian, Jamaican, Greek, Italian or any other type of food but it is not okay for a little white girl to dress up like Mulan? How does that make sense? Black culture IS popular culture ATM. Rappers are the new pop stars and this is what kids are looking up to so of course they are going to take on those traits and tendencies? All long as you are not mocking a culture I believe everyone should be able to wear whatever they want and explore whatever culture they want. We can't keep our cultures trapped in little boxes and hand out passes to who is aloud in or not.
Pretty much
And what a beautiful "culture" it is. I mean things like Shakespeare, the Mona Lisa, and Classical Music can't compare to this Ghetto culture America has been force fed.
@@kelkil79 LMFAO wow
Dani Alexandria im with you girl as long as you know where the culture comes from and arent changing the names of certain things to make it more “appropriate” prime examples the Kardashian’s calling Cornrows something else, idc. Every culture is so beautiful theres a difference between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation as long as youre respectful idc
Yes, i thought this is the common sense. But seeing the internet offended make me question reality
Someone should really inform the 1.3 billion Indians that they need to thank Gwyneth Paltrow for inventing yoga.
Actually Waffles 😂🙌🙌 yes seriously! Lol
Refreshing waiting for that UA-cam Rewind tea
I go to another city for school, it is literally an hour's travel in the morning. And even though I don't even live there(I just travel back and forth everyday) I have developed an accent completely different from my old accent, and it only took less than a year until someone pointed it out to me. I didn't even speak English the same way, I developed an accent that was different from what my own city had. That goes to show how much of an impact the people around you have on you and your accent. So I have no problem with Ariana's situation. Thank you, next.
its suppose to be melanin, melatonin makes you want to sleep. Melanin gives the dark pigment.
Maxwell Legere looks like you copied and pasted the first thing you googled. Do some research on peer reviewed articles and you will find that melatonin does not impact skin pigmentation www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/8106756/
It acts on melanocytes to reduce ages spots and damaged skin, not deepen skin tone.
"I own this dance" mad can't wait to ask permission to salsa 😂
kids have to pay royalties everytime they dab
That's a style of dance not an exact dance move
Salsa is a style of dance. Not a specific set of dance moves. Just like “Rock” is a style of music, but “Stairway to Heaven” is a specific song. These people are claiming to own their “song”, not owning “rock”. Does that clarify?
The problem is not people doing the dance. The problem is selling the dance moves that someone else created for real money and not sharing that money with the creator.
you humorless weirdos he's making a joke.
This whole tanning issue is really confusing me...in the Mediterranean region (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece) people tend to tan very easily and can get VERY dark. I am Italian myself (on my mothers side) and my cousins, Uncles, Grandparents, and mom all get super dark in the summer. The only reason I don't and remain insanely pale is because me and my sisters are the only ones out of the group that are half Irish/English. Also, hair, body type, and features are 100% genetic and being "thic" or having big lips and curly hair is in no way exclusive to those of African decent. I have naturally curly hair so do my cousin and mother. I am in no way trying to disrespect anyone. I am just stating facts and am confused by this whole thing. people should really pick up a science textbook and read all about genetics. I also think people should take an ancestry or (whatever online group)DNA test to see where they come from. It would really open some eyes.
omfggg thank youuuu. I am half finnish half italian and I am crazy pale but my dad has very tight curls, almost jet black hair and is tanned brown.
I find it so funny that people here are all grrr genetics=culture
The crazy people think it's because she was never dark and that she was always "white" and pale but they dont know some Italians start out light and get super dark over time. Some Caribbean's do that too. Especially in regards to how much sun they get. I'm not Italian but Persian and this is so bullshit.
Isn't it kind of cute that you failed to mention any north african or levant country? Why is that? They border the Mediterranean sea too. I'm looking at the sea from the window of my apartment right now.
Oh yeah, nvm. You're italian. Typical of one to act like the mena region doesn't exist.
White people can DEFINITELY have natural curly hair. My sister is pale like a sheet and her hair is super curly. I'm more of a olive skin tone and my hair is straight.
Damn you can just imagine that scientist after being disowned and excluded from the scientific community starts meddling with more genes and makes a super monster to seek revenge on his fellow researchers.
Basically Dr.Henry Wu from Jurassic Park.
That’s how we got Doomsday, aka the Ultimate Baby
Guilty Gear?
yes and it shall be glorious!
@Hillary Clinton ...what?
Based on what?
How would that even work?
That first story is so 2018..
Oh wait, that second story gets more 2018..
2019: The next 2018
@@AaronDanarajF Im worried it will be the new generation...
@TacoTacoTacoTaco It's not just one ethnicity, I am certain that there are plenty of white people and asian people and hispanic peolle etc. To blame one group makes us no better than the people who were up in arms about it.
@@Taylerlrox true but damn these ethno nationalists are one hell crazy motharfuckers hahaha :p blaccent , blackfishing,....the fuck hahaha :p the ego is massive in these people pff Americans....
But u only have subs cuz of fortnite aka 2018.
I love this. edit the DNA.
It will be so dope.
I agree, license the music and play it behind the emote. Great idea.
Anyone else think it's funny that most of the top comments are about how tan you can be without it being cultural appropriation, when 1/2 the video is about altering the course of humanity on a genetic level?
Brave New World is just over the horizon and people are more upset over "blackfishing"
Kodi I think the skin comment is easier to understand than the genetic one. I admit I got a little lost halfway through. I get it, but I’m definitely not a scientist. I love neuroscience and understand the brain (or the little that we even do understand about it), but genetics are another ball game.
Yeah well most people think Colin Kaepernick is against the flag too so if people can be dumb and burn socks, other can be dumb and complain about race
@@GabrielTheMagolorMain just saying genetics isn't really much of another ball game I mean your brain is also made of genes so....
Kodi Yea I realized pretty soon that we live in a world of idiots, I think that the breaking point was donald trump though for me.
As a black woman, I’m not offended by these “blackfishers” wanting to look like women of African decent? It’s just heartbreaking that I was made to feel less than, and like nothing for having these naturally occurring features. I have a very unpopular opinion about cultural appropriation. I feel although it can be offensive, it benefits me in some aspects. For example, Kim Kardashian wears braids and now that’s seen as okay in popular culture. Consequently, I can wear my braids to work without anyone saying anything bad about it. I
couldn’t be seen as normal until a non-black person did it, which is disheartening. Cultural appropriation is a very nuanced issue and has a lot of deep feelings behind it. It’s not skin deep.
adevans20 i agree (also a black woman) I just feel like they shouldn’t use our look to gain popularity on instagram
adevans20 I
@@kelly.wil_ So then should the other way be the same? Is straightening your hair "cultural appropriation"? Having blue contact lenses? And so on, its stupid to say someone cant do something because they arent (insert race here).
Colonizer sympathizer
Ainz Ooal Gown I didn’t say that they can’t I’m just saying it’s wrong when we straighten our hair we aren’t pretending to be white like they can curl their hair w/o pretending to be black
New favorite quote thanks to Phil. "I've been play this 33 year long game of Hide-and-seek with the Sun."
"I'm reaching out to the yoga community..." A sentence I never thought you'd say but made me laugh out loud because you're face looked so conflicted.
Wtf does sounding black mean . She was just trying to use slang. Yeah it sounded corny but so what. I’m black but I swear sometimes stories like the Ariana grande one sound like fake news . Meaning that they are one of those racial clickbait stories, to cause fake outrage .
I know right,I'm black and when people associate slang with "sounding black" it's a bit embarrassing
i thought ppl don't want to get treated differently based on their skin colour, and yet there are people claiming that you can "sound black"? isnt that kinda hypocritical?
I guess when someone would say "he/she is trying to sound black and/or sounding black" the person is talking a, one would say a stereotype of a black person or accent. In my school this happens a lot, there are these twins that I knew from primary and they are white and "talked like a white person" and when I got to high school they talked like the kids in the school (I should mention that my school is majority black and mixed race.)
Some think that black people speak in a certain type of speech that is ghetto, slurred, and has a specific tone to it.
If you're black you know what a blaccent is lol. I'm black and was always called proper and asked if I was raised around white people because I didn't have a blaccent. But I still know what it sounds like
What a weird thing to accuse someone of. "How dare you not research into whether or not other people you don't know think that you are black and order them to stop! I'm outraged!"
nah my dude, the problem is that when black people start this trends they're viewed as "ghetto" and they're berated and insulted, until some white person makes them popular and then they're suddenly cool and hip and shit like that.
@@imfiveone7158 why does it matter? We copy things everyone else does but nobody blinks an eye about it, skinny Jean's for example is a white trend that black people adopted... there isn't a mass outrage about this. Why is it that our people are victims of literally every single thing now?
Israel Smith no one hates skinny jeans and said negative things about them like they do about black people and their trends being ghetto.
@@noway3037 every thug in any hood clowned white folks with their skinny Jean's and then some famous person like Wayne started wearing them and all of a sudden every black kid in school is wearing their sisters Jean's... black culture isn't even black culture, it's a mix of everyone else's culture. The culture in Africa is vastly different then in America, we aren't from Africa (ancestors were) we are from America, so what IS our culture? Black people from the states don't have their own culture we take from everyone else then complain when somebody likes how we do it and tries to mimick our version
@@TJ-uc8bb my friend I am not refuting the point that we have very unique ways but as stated they are all just versions of another. Our culture isn't original so how can we be so upset about others using the culture we modified to our situations?
In the video you have these women, these people, who merely love doing something that makes them feel good. If a white lady wants a darker shade of skin why is that a problem? We preach and boast about how beautiful our skin is, we should feel almost honored that we have something others want. With this generation of outrage this should actually feel like a victory if anything for the fact that we have something they dont... something they want...that's power in our hands isn't it?
You know what. I understand the risks but I applaud Dr. He. im curious to what comes in the future.
That story about the gene editing is crazy omg, like in so many way
Michael Jackson's estate is owed a lot if dances are copyrightable.
@John Gill Michael Jackson's not black. Or wait, is he? Idk, I'm too young.
@@Razzanonymous he was black, look up the Jackson 5. He just had a rare skin condition that halted the production of melanin in his skin causing him to become white in complexion
Tyler Dennis which dances?
I was just about to say the same thing. Honestly if Fortnite wasnt so big I don't think they'd give two shits. These guys just saw money they could grab.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Blaccent? What does that sound like? There's blacks from Jamaica to Colombia to France. What does the blaccent sound like?
"Ay yo dis boi eatin beenz"
aspebb I hope you aren’t white
Ebonics.
There is a real term to describe common Black speech called African American English or some people may call it ebonics. And there are other terms out there to describe common ethnic groups speech. But with the issue with Ari is just stupid, she just looks like a white girl that tans and she's not trying to represent anything else.
r/whooosh
You can make your skin look however you like. No culture has ownership over a skin color and who can or cannot wear it.
I love how you cover science
The blackface/ blackfishing story baffles me. Some people are black, some people are tan, some people have a darker complexion and decide to adhere to the culture they feel more comfortable in. Does that make them a blackface? If anything please experience my culture! We should embrace each other specially in such diverse country. The only reason I’d be upset at someone is if they make a mockery and have bad intentions bc there’s no room for that in this world.
Edit: please educate yourself on blackface. Thanks you.
Culture is different from skin color so please stop
Exactly, historical blackface was used solely as a mockery, a comedy act, that demeaned and laughed at black stereotypes. Somehow, people get it in their head that having dark skin = using black grease to paint your face LITERALLY black (like, as black as this text) followed up with obnoxiously eating a watermelon. It's bonkers
Sweety she takes melanin shots and admitted to darkening her foundation 😂
@@SAM-bo5xg You can't steal skin color bro
@@jessicajackson8954 so? Let her. She obviously admires the looks of black people which is awesome. She looks great anyway and I feel that people are over reacting. It's her body,let her do what she wants.
I'm always surprised by how many Americans have never been to Europe, some people in Europe are technically white but have really dark skin
I'm always surprised by how many African Americans have never been to africa
@@f86tune48 alot of so called "Blacks" would be considered White in Africa lol
Also alot of "White" people in the Americas wouldnt pass as White in Europe lol
Most americans can't afford to travel to Europe. D: I would love to - broke as hell though.
MY grandmother is 1/2 Milan and 1/2 Sicilian. When I was little my mother showed me a picture of her and I asked who the black woman was. She naturally tanned REALLY dark. Its amazing what some peoples bodies do naturally to different environments.
I have been waiting for this! Years and years I have been asking when tanning is going to become cultural appropriation! And here it is!
Biologist here. About the gene editing babies, I'm mostly surprised it took this long. While the idea of editing human embryos freaks people out, there's an enormous number of groups working on it. About a year ago there was a report out that china had already edited dozens of embryos with crispr. Was only a matter of time before someone decided to try it. 2 other important notes: The mod he did has been heavily studied. It does actually work pretty well at preventing HIV from infecting cells, but the virus can still get around it. But even if the kid is a mosaic, that still drastically lowers chances for a virus to make it into a cell so it'd help. The big issue is the off targets, but the amount of sequencing he did really seemed to suggest there weren't huge problems. Lots of deep reads once the embryos developed a bit, and as reasonable amount of coverage as you can get from the 1-2 cells they were able to remove from them to test.
This is basically a clinical 1 trial. You've gotta test it on someone to know if it works. And if it doesn't, you adjust it and try again. But you need that baseline. The mod he used was heavily studied in rats and such, which is always the first step before moving to a clinical 1 trial. So while he went about it in an unprofessional way, what he did is normal for the medical industry. No amount of theory will tell you how something is gonna work the first time. You run as many tests as you can, then try it and see. Most drugs don't make it past clinical 1's for that reason.
Tl:dr, if I'd been him, I wouldn't have done it like that, and would have chosen something that was more serious as a first go, but I'm neither surprised or particularly worried. Ethically it's weird, personally I don't mind, but I can very easily see why others might.
The Thought Emporium well his experiment did fail
Ayyyy! My youtube spheres are crossing over again.
Good read, thanks for posting
Aren't genes spectacularly complicated? I mean, a gene for hiv or some other condition could be connected other valuable and vital genes as well... Could it not?
What do u mean why it took so long. Without enough studies and REAL LIFE EXAMPLES (not on humans) it’s just straight out immoral. The first X number of infants it will be tried on are WAYY TO LIKELY to suffer from unpredictable consequences.
I'm lost. Did we figure out she meant melanin? Or we are we just rollin with melatonin?
Im assuming she tried typing melanin and autocorrect messed her shit up.
Haha 😂
No, stop being complicated. It just *They see me rollin', They hatin'*
Can you "take" melanin though? Is that a thing????
Jennifer Criss that was really funny. She must have sleeping problems
If you are offended by how someone talks, dresses, does their hair, or applies their makeup, you need to step back, ask yourself "why do I care what another person does with their body," and move on with your life. There are no protected classes, there are no sacred cows, nothing is exclusive. Grow up, stop butting into everyone else's lives, mind your own business.
Agreed.
The thing they will be praised for is the same thing black females will be hated for. Other races of women are praised for having typical black female features and more ghetto attitudes, but they will demonise black women for it. Cause you don’t experience it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, in which I mean people will public hate black women and nobody really cares, people call us ugly for being to dark, they call about hair nappy, unprofessional and messy and a whole lot more which is even worst. We care cause we’re hated for it but others are praised and it’s unfair. But when we call this shit out we’re crazy and over dramatic.
Apparently either they have a lot of time in their hands or they are avoiding fixing their own issues.
@@TJ-uc8bb
And you should care what others think . . . why? A person should be judged by the color of their character, not the color of their skin. We, as individuals, should strive to either avoid negative stereotypes, or alter people's perceptions of those stereotypes. That being said, I feel that "blaccents" or "speaking black," is simply bad form in general. Proper grammar and word usage is important, and can make a difference in how people perceive you.
It's childish insecurities on behalf of the people complaining about it. They have the depth of a rain puddle so they have to cry and whine about how special and unique they are.
They aren't special or unique. They are just too weak to handle that fact.
They got no heart.
*After going on for nearly five minutes about blackfishing*
Phil: "As far as my opinion on this, man I don't know." LMAO
In all honesty, as someone with a chronic illness that untreatable, I'm all for genetic editing/correcting for illnesses as long as its done in an ethical manner and with safety above all else.
Agreed.
Exactly, I had the exact same thought. It's kind of a slap to the face to see all these people say there isn't really a point to this or to let God figure it out. It's disgusting that to them the only way to better themselves is aesthetically and they're so disconnected to the disabled that they can't understand that they could stop the suffering of thousands. Like, my mom has 8 autoimmune disorders and I've got one (probably will have more as I get older) And I've strongly considered not having kids because passing these genes on is cruelty. But even if science gets a way to overcome that, disabled people still get screwed over by the able population purely because of a matter of "ethics" when ethics can't even keep its story straight between decades and cultures. This is just a science experiment to them, but to people with genetic disorders it's a glimpse of hope. And it's disgusting the able-bodied part of the population wants to ruin it because they're so self centered.
We never get anywhere without experimentation. Scientists need to run experiments. Whats the big deal?
This kind of ban-culture never work, in future we will see some secret labs all over, and it become 'rich people only'-service.... instead, it should be only about prevent some serous illnesses and we should demand strict rules, strict documentation, some kind database listing which kind of modification are allowed or ethical panel to approve patient and/or what will happen if scientist break these rules. Just my 2 cents, with my broken English.
@@presakakeya It's not self-centered to consider the overall health of the human race. If editing genes of babies has some unforeseen negative effect, it's not just these two children that are affected. All of their offspring now have that damage as well. If each gene edited child has two children, that's 4 grandchildren with this man-made genetic illness. If those 4 have two children each, that's 16 children affected. And so on. This has the potential to significantly damage the human race over time. The consequences of this research could be worse than your genetic disorders you were attempting to fix in the first place. The world isn't so black-and-white as "healthy people hindering progress of the ill". The point is you need to be absolutely sure there are no catastrophic negative effects before haphazardly edited genes of babies, and we aren't there yet.
She takes melatonin for skin? Is her skin too woke?
Skamegeddon Its so woke, her skin has blaccent spoke.
Lol. Her skin is too A-WAKE ..
*slow clap*
HAHAHA that's amazing
Melanin. I assume
I did an entire presentation on designer babies. I am 100% for it
I feel like the world needs bold scientists like him, he didn't harm anyone from what I could gather. Lots of scientists were considered controversial in their time, but made bold moves and lead to many modern advancements. He went against the grain to help people of the future and is being condemned for it. Science is about exploration and experimentation.
To those who don't get the fuss over designer babies: The problem is that we don't know if it'll actually result in "Children born stronger, smarter, and without disease." This is the DNA we are talking about, the building blocks of life. A slight change in DNA can very easily cause terminal diseases like cancer, and this is far beyond that. We have no idea what it'll do to that child growing up, them later in life, or to their descendants. There's also the fact that they get no say in the matter, which would directly affect their life, and it will affect their children (who also lost that choice).
"they get no say in the matter"
same applies to abortion tho
both can prevent a life of suffering
@@aspasp9568 we aren't at nearly that level of accuracy though, the risk of cutting the wrong DNA sequence outweighs potential benefits at this point.
@@katie-st8nx The parents can keep trying until a healthy kid is produced. As far as second gen offspring, have all participants live in a modern walled off city. The city could be funded by several nations (like the ISS), pharma corporations and private investors. Medical discoveries incentivize further investment.
Well, most likely natural selection will pick that "disgrace" to our kind and delete them because their genes weren't sufficient enough to compete with ours or vice versa. Though also I am pretty sure, dont quote me on this, usually, there is a benefit and a non-benefit for almost every gene so getting the perfect genome seems more than likely impossible, not to mention I rather not live forever and watch as everyone around me dies except me because I am immortalized from a disease.
@DK So you want them to basically live their entire lives in a cage as guinea pigs? And their descendants down the line to do the same?
Regarding gene editing. My 8 year old son has a terminal diagnosis for a rare form of MD, Duchenne, and this treatment has the potential to edit the mutation of his disease out of his DNA. Thus not letting him die. There are other treatments etc that are slowing, stopping and apparently reversing the process. But for a parent like myself who is watching his son slowly lose mobility and eventually life it is hard to not want gene editing research pushed further because my son has limited time with his disease...
It's people like you and your son who make me realize we are moving too slowly on CRISPR despite all the controversy and fear. I work in a lab on projects using CRISPR (not on humans) so I'm very familiar with it and all the pros and cons. It's easy for people to say we should never do this when it isn't their child, friend, loved one, or themselves who are suffering or even dying from something genetic that we cannot cure without gene editing. There are so many who are willing to take their chances to be the first ones to try gene editing because without it they have no chance. Yet we hold back and let people die anyway. Meanwhile people/governments will still do it in secret and likely for not good reasons. I hope your son gets the help he needs to get better, either through CRISPR or by something else.
Laura x are you out of TX?
@@CraigABuchanan No I'm in CO.
Laura x my son goes to the CO Children’s Hospital for his DMD check in every 6 months!
Essentially the controversy is mainly coming from how quickly gene editing is progressing. Simply because if its successful, it may cause problems having it done so quickly because we are still immature to the idea of this world breaking technological advancement. They say we're not ready, but when are we ready is the real question. One thing for example, is how people think babies will be modified for aesthetic purposes. However, just like you (I assume) I believe we need this jump start towards CRISPR's application with humans. Its sad to have progression stunted only because we're not prepared for the critically negative impacts of its advancements.
This man will surely be criticized for his work. Depending on the person's perspective he'll be viewed as a hero or mocked as a terrible villain.
Twice now, I’ve had to not only re-click the little bell button, but I’ve had to re-subscribe altogether to you channel. Maybe it’s also happening to other channels I’m subscribed to, but I’m noticing it most with your channel bc I watch you all the time. You’ll just suddenly stop showing up in my feed, and when I search you, it does not appear that I am subscribed or receiving notifications, when I know I am, and (as I said earlier) have redone twice now. Hopefully this time it sticks.
I literally change race depending on the time of year. Most people can’t tell during the winter when I’m pasty and I straighten my hair that I’m Hispanic. But when I’m tan and let my hair naturally curl, I look Puerto Rican af.
I am black and I am in no way affected by any of this.
Not Gay Bear 🐻
Same. People are doing too much.
Just becoz it doesn’t affect your little bubble doesn’t mean we shouldn’t talk about it....that is such a selfish thing of you to say
@@CutieZalbu This is literally the answer to the question that Phil asked in the video.
@@CutieZalbu "becoz" ??? you so "wit it"
She's of Sicilian descent, anyone with Sicilian descent knows that their skin color CAN ABSOLUTELY be dark.
South Italians and Sicilians have large amount of North African and they are thought to originate from middle east.
Yeah, it's the same thing here in Cyprus. Some folks have natural curly hair and tan very easily. I'm not one of them but it's common
Everyone above is absolutely correct. My family is of Northern Italian Tuscan descent, and even we can get a serious tan if we commit to it.
Well no one would think she was doing something bad if it weren't for the fact that her skin color has gotten drastically darker compared to a few years ago. No one is saying Sicilians can't be brown??? It is Abt her personally going from ivory to milk chocolate.
Same for me I’m Mexican, i run on the lighter side , BUT, if I really tried to tan and soaked up a lot of sun as I used to as a child I can get up to 6-8 shades darker.... it’s possible people.
What an interesting story, this gene editing stuff. Please continue to report as new details come in.
My brother cousins and I are all Métis with dirty blonde hair and we all are pretty darn pasty in the winter, but every summer we surprise everyone with our dark tans even if we don’t get tons of time in the sun.
Can you put polls for when you ask the major questions
Best case scenario we cure diseases. Worst case scenario Resident Evil.
Hey I'd love to be in a Resident Evil scenario! You take that back! Bring ALL the zombies and mutants to fruition!
Hey my guy best case scenario is 2004s version of Master Chief!
idk, Resident Evil might even be a mild "worst" case scenario, with this kind of blatan misuse of the technology you could create any number of dystopian sci-fi worlds.
If we get the Resident Evil scenario I want Marvel vs Capcom level Wesker powers.
Worst case scenario - Jill's Sandwich.
*sees a new channel*
*gets called a beautiful bastard*
LoVE iT
As a black guy I gotta say, this cultural appropriation outrage is not only ridiculous, but its counter productive.
We are dividing ourselves even further by drawing all these lines between cultures and saying "your not allowed to do this because you aren't one of us."
Isn't it a good thing people see parts of other people's cultures as beautiful or desirable, and want to take part in them?
Black face is an entirely different thing that was created for the sole purpose of mocking and insulting black people. A girl darkening her skin with makeup and putting her hair in certain styles because she thinks it looks desirable is the exact opposite.
Also no group owns an accent. There a black people all over the world, hell even all over the country that speak with everything from a Hispanic accent to a deep southern one. How you speak is determined by where you grew up, and has nothing to do with skin color.
I understand there's a lot of pent up anger because of the many injustices many marginalized groups have faced. But lashing out at every little thing will not help heal the wounds, in fact I believe that it will only serve to create new ones
As a scientist myself I feel that gene editing tools do have a place, but further research and trails are needed before it becomes a regular treatment. There is currently a phase III clinical test underway at UCLA that seeks to treat sickle cell anemia by isolating and editing genes of hematopoietic stem cells via zinc finger nuclease (molecular scissors) in SCD patients. Difference here is that only the stem cells are being changed so sickle cell patients can live a normal life, these changes won't be passed onto their children. Editing the genome itself however can be unpredictable, isolation of stem cells works because you can most prevent off-target sequence changes (caused by similar strands of DNA being target), but to edit the genome effects every generation follow, very risky and without the perfection of gene editing tools and absolute precision, devastating.
This is an underrated comment. I think the best lesson here is not that genetic editing shouldn't be done, but that it should be done with respect and care and when its known by the scientific community in general that it is occurring. Thank you for your insight.
I do have a question about this though topic and you seem to have a fair grasp on it, as a chemist the rules are essentially "don't poison people, don't created crazy chemical weapons, and try your very best not to blow anything up". At what point does it become morally acceptable? There's a line, and I know we should learn from the past and a lack of testing is unacceptable, but when do we say 'that's okay'? I'm worried that in the US that things like this will be gunned down as it goes against God. While despite the Chinese government being 'against it' I'm worried they'll be first to take it up with no regard to the safety of the procedures. I'm use to just not killing everyone with toxic fumes, not so good on the biological ethics.
+liam McKenna At what stage in development do the cells that eventually differentiate into sex cells split into their own group? Because you could potentially target those cells to bypass the pre-sex cells and therefore prevent heritable gene modification.
really... you know that that scientist is now going to be making super soldiers for world invasion now because they want to be perfect
@@jamiefinn4438 that's the tricky thing about this kind of technology and it's close relationship with ethics, ethics from an individual perspective and societal point of view can differ vastly even though the two can claim to be from the same spiritual institution or organization. The large Ethical case that I'm seeing in the development of genetic engineering technology is in the realms of human betterment without permanently harming the genome. GMO crops are an example of increasing growth factors and nutrient content while reducing the amount of land and water resources required to improve food availability. Human cell modification trails now are meant to treat previously terminal conditions like ALD, immune deficiencies and sickle cell. An economic point can be made from this too, a single individual with sickle cell disease can cost a country 9 million dollars in medical support in a lifetime, meaning that an individual stem cell cure costing 5 million could save 2.5 billion in costs for 5000 individuals.
Secondary issue to this is that an individualized cure for a genetic disease must be individual based, stem cells have to be isolated, edited, and reinplanted into the patient and the patient becomes their own cure (pardon my scientific liberties), issue is this doesn't allow for a large return that you would commonly see with stricter pharmaceutical products.
Really it's when society as a whole decides that increasing the lifespan of a child from 7 to 84 is more important than the costs that we'll see the shift. Super designer babies isn't really on the board for most serious geneticists.
The US is wild... I don’t understand how you all live together, it seems there is so much tension😂
Megan Carrington they shoulda just let the native Americans be...
Baylley Blackmore agreed, native people of all nations should always be the preserved, protected majority
I feel tension in my crotch area by looking at your picture Megan.
Big Daddy Toyota Corola There is not a native population in the US anymore as the US is a country of immigrants; a multicultural, multi-racial, identity-less melting pot. The Americans pushed out, dissolved, and diluted the Native American populations practically out of existence and flooded the nation of foreign culture and foreign demographics. America is now a country of no specific culture, people and it’s origins changed in favour of the colonizers, descendants and immigrants. To put it vaguely, this is why America is declining socially and why the tension is so present. You’re social agenda and structure does not work.
I never said it was only America that had seized land, I condemn all empires, colonizations etc. However most empires collapsed and the native lands, cultures and demographics were rebuilt and regenerated. For example, India was colonized by the British for 200 years. They eventually left and India returned to being Indian cultured and Indian representative (and a lot poorer as the British robbed them dry of an estimated *475 trillion dollars*)
NeOmega fucking incel.
My take on the gene-editing is someone had to be first to do it someone had to take the first steps into fully understanding something
Designer Babies:
A. The medical intervention in regards to things like crippling, deadly, or disfiguring issues is something we are already spending billions on in surgery, medication, and treatment. If those issues, actual medical issues, can be prevented, if the genome of an existing fetus can be altered just to eliminate those things, then we not only save on billions as a society, we also prevent a massive amount of unnecessary suffering. 100% support.
B. “Designer babies” does not convey an ethical image, and in absolutely no way should it be legal to predetermine the aesthetic of a child beyond protecting them from terrible medical ailments. And no, neither social nor racial status are medical ailments.
Past progressives "Racism is bad, let's include everyone!"
Modern progressives "Racism is bad, let's segregate everyone!"
Well when you put it that way. Damn. Kinda spot on..
It's like certain cultures want to be treated like endangered species. "NO! This is MINE! You can't have it!" If a certain culture wants to keep to themselves, that's fine, but you can't do that and then at the same time demand representation in entertainment and government. That's not how societies work. Whoever coined the term "cultural appropriation" should have been shot.
Segregation is actually natural.
The regressive left needs to be called out by all ends of the spectrum.
Prïnce Nixon Forming groups is normal but we also are at a point in time where we can’t just form one group and hate another. People more actively mix and blend into other groups now and I don’t think that’s necessarily bad.
- As far as my opinion goes on this? MAN I DON'T KNOW
Yeah Mr. DeFranco I don't know either.
i fake tan whenever i have an event because it evens out my skin tone and accentuates my features, although it makes me 4-5 foundation shades darker I would never think that girls fake tan to “blackfish” (I don’t get dark enough to relate personally) but I think lots of girls have loved the look of a deep tan for a long time
'33year hide and seek with the sun' - reasons to love Phil
On the Blackfishing story, I am left asking why does it matter what ethnicity those people are? Have we really de-evolved as a society to the point where your group identity is more important than your personal merits and actions? This type of thinking certainly does not belong in the 21st century and I implore any & all to strive as far away from it as possible, as it this type of tribal thinking that was used to separate humanity and justify the worst things that we have ever done to one another in our collective human history.
In regards to the final story, I would say that I am cautiously optimistic, as it is surely a path to a future without health problems. Yet still aware that it will give rise to a storm of ethical and philosophical problems that we would need to delve into on a profound level before we come to a satisfactory conclusion. My biggest concern would be whether or not we are mature enough to even begin such a discussion, principally when looking back at instances such as the previous story.
Welcome to identity politics.
I think that for centuries black features especially in black women have been vilified and repeatedly they have been repackaged for a white audience. You only here and see the outrage now because there’s social media now. People will always be proud of their features from their racial group because that’s all they had growing up. It’s not forward thinking to break away from this if anything I believe it’s insulting to ignore the unique characteristics each group has on this planet. The women deserved to be called out but never threatened or harassed. I think the hurt comes from when you commercialize black features but don’t give money to actual black women.
@@imjustsayin34 don't give money to black women for... Getting a deep tan? Does this mean black women should pay white women when they straighten their hair? It's outrage for outrage's sake. Mad when the afro was looked down on in society, mad now that it isn't.
@@imjustsayin34 so we have to pay black women money to tan? Which black people? Should black people pay whites money to straighten hair, bleach their skin and speak english?
Ash we’re literally talking about Instagram if you’re averaging the likes these women were you’re definitely getting brand endorsements especially from makeup and hair companies (black women are the greatest consumers of these products) so yes your race is definitely what’s getting you paid nowadays.
I think she means melanin. Higher melanin is what causes darker skin tones, while melatolin, on the other hand, is a hormone that helps regulate the sleep cycle.
Phil please add subtitles :))))
ZQ I agree
"A body body body ba.." lol
The sun is racist now, tanning all those people.
Manuel Albani she was naturally quite fair and is from Sweden and claims she naturally tans like that when it’s not a sunny country but she’s always tanned 24/7 365 days a year it’s very suspect
Manuel Albani yeah except some of those women excessively tanned/ took pills to get that dark. Which is definitely bad for their health but whatever I guess it’s officially cool to be brown now lol
I thought you were talking about the news paper and I was like “Wouldn’t surprise me. (...) oh, the space flame.”
@@sarax8644 Nevermind. Not to mention that tan is nowhere near natural, it looks fake AF
@@amandaguerrero2833 true.
I don't think it. Matters how people choose look, nonetheless.
You missed a fantastic opportunity to call it "Ariana Grande Blacklash".
I feel terrible for laughing but that’s really funny. Also Phil hates puns.
or even "Ariana Grande faces grande blacklash"
Or if we're getting even more Parks and Rec, "Blacklash! Ariana Grande faces grande backlash for grande black face"
I got into Yoga by spending time researching eastern religion as well as just the health benefits of doing yoga. Never even seen a picture of her.
Richard Hittleman's book can change your life.
Namaste
I used to be super tan when I was younger but as I got older and just don't go outside as much anymore I've gotten really pale, however I still tan very easily if I go outside often enough so it's not completely impossible from my experience.
Edit all the genes! Give me my super soldiers...and get this baby a shield!
Did somebody say "Shield"?
*Laughs in Reinhardt*
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear...?
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We need, ALL THE CAT GIRLS.
Will people in the future have to carry around a genetics results card to prove they are a certain race or not so that they can act/look/say certain ways/things?
Didn't we already decide that doing this was a really bad thing in the 1930's and 1940's?
only if you claim you're Cherokee to get affirmative action benefits
You’re reaching with that one bud. Why would they need a card?
@@Ratrix To prove they are a certain race so the do not "appropriate" any cultural
Only when you're in black neighborhoods lmao
Shhhhh don't use common sense. It will offend someone!
I am in full support of editing genes once it is known that the procedure is very safe and logical because there are many people who’s health would be greatly improved through the editing of genes. I do think that it will be a while before it becomes truly safe and that when it is developed fully there should be bans on the creation of designer babies.
I used to get really dark skinned when I was younger (not anymore since I spend 90% of my time indoors) but it can happen.
Are these people genuinely saying that a *tan* is blackface now? Really?
when you're running out things to complain about.
If it IS a tan, it's not blackface.
i'm not upset by it but to saying that this is a "tan" is stupid. they are all darker then me and i'm half black
@@ameliagonzalez1141 Meaning you believe they are...what? Perpetrating a fraud? The question is: "Have they been that complextion their entire lives?".
Rasheed Amir I believe that they are pretending to be black or at least mixed . But I’m not mad by it cuz it’s not my life. This doesn’t affect me in any way
I don't know how that is blackfishing when they don't look black. Naturally beautiful black women come in a array of shades, shapes and features but that cookie cutter ip filled IG model look isn't one
Ariana isn't talking 'black' she's speakng colloquially, I think she's just trying to keep up with the times
I've been doing yoga for years and I don't even know who Gwenith is
@C M dude really?
C M probably by horrible like you
Alisha's Guide for real, they don’t even look black...maybe biracial but not full black and they never claimed to be. Ariana does the same tho she darkens her skin sooooo much but hey you can’t be mad at her for darkening her skin if you don’t get mad at the insta girls who do the same.
I'll definitely take a black woman over those no lip having flat butt bitches from any other race lmao. Especially when other women age terribly.
I think C M is just saying statistically there are lot of cons with portraying yourself as a black person on social media and dating sites. But what he or she doesn't know is... THEY HATE US 'CAUSE THEY AIN'T US!
watched pewdiepies half speed video before this. forgot to switch back... you'd be a good chipmunk phil haha