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Would you protect the rights of A bigot?

The Jews of Europe were characterized in the following ways by the Fascists:

1. Bigoted because of “Jewish Chosenness” 2. A foreign element from a different continent 3. An over privileged foreign minority 4. Destructive of indigenous ethnic culture.

Non-Indigenous of America are characterized in the following ways:

1. Bigoted because of “White Supremacism” and other “Supremacisms” 2. A foreign element from a different continent 3. An over privileged foreign minority (LatinX are the majority in the Americas and they are considered Indigenous by many) 4. Disrespectful of other cultures.

The rights of the Jewish people should have been respected during WWII and the rights of the Non-Indigenous Americans should be respected today. Would you protect the human rights of a Jewish person even if they believed in “Jewish Chosenness” and came from a powerful family and promoted Modernism over traditional ethnic culture?

I believe that “Jewish Chosenness” does not have to imply bigotry. It can simply mean that AT LEAST the descendants of Jacob would be a blessing to all families. This does not imply that ONLY the descendants of Jacob would be a blessing to all families. I also believe that most of the victims of the Holocaust had done nothing illegal and that they should have been given fair trials.

Fossil mystery solved: Super-long-necked reptiles lived in the ocean, not on land

A fossil called Tanystropheus was first described in 1852, and it’s been puzzling scientists ever since. At one point, paleontologists thought it was a flying pterosaur, like a pterodactyl, and that its long, hollow bones were phalanges in the finger that supported the wing. Later on, they figured out that those were elongated neck bones, and that it was a twenty-foot-long reptile with a ten-foot neck: three times as long as its torso. Scientists still weren’t sure if it lived on land or in the water, and they didn’t know if smaller specimens were juveniles or a completely different species—until now. By CT-scanning the fossils’ crushed skulls and digitally reassembling them, researchers found evidence that the animals were water-dwelling, and by examining the growth rings in bones, determined that the big and little Tanystropheus were separate species that could live alongside each other without competing because they hunted different prey.

“I’ve been studying Tanystropheus for over thirty years, so it’s extremely satisfying to see these creatures demystified,” says Olivier Rieppel, a paleontologist at the Field Museum in Chicago and one of the authors of a new paper in Current Biology detailing the discovery.

Tanystropheus lived 242 million years ago, during the middle Triassic. On land, dinosaurs were just starting to emerge, and the sea was ruled by giant reptiles. For a long time, though, scientists weren’t sure whether Tanystropheus lived on land or in the water. Its bizarre body didn’t make things clear one way or the other.

Video: ‘Mystery Creature’ Washes Ashore in England

By Tim Binnall

Residents of a coastal community in England were left scratching their heads and holding their noses after the massive and odorous remains of a mystery creature washed ashore. The creepy carcass was reportedly first discovered last Wednesday on a beach in the town of Ainsdale. Witnesses who dared to venture close enough to the creature to get a good look at it were baffled by the beast and could not identify what it may have been.

When pictures and video of the oddity, which many took to calling the ‘Ainsdale Anomaly,’ all manner of theories were offered for the nature of the creature, including a donkey, a cow, a walrus, and more fantastic ideas such as a woolly mammoth and, yes, even an alien. “It’s like a mishmash of different things in one,” observed one individual, “it’s 15 feet long, it has flippers, it’s furry and it seems to have another creature attached.”

Israeli start-up develops ultra-portable oxygen generator

“Oxygen tanks are not allowed in the battlefield because they risk exploding and are therefore considered too dangerous,” he said. “However, we have seen that in wars that Israel has fought, the complications related to the evacuation of injured soldiers without the possibility of providing them with oxygen in the meantime has caused several fatalities.”

The group started to work on a solution that would not only eliminate the dangers related to traditional oxygen tanks, but would also make it easier for the oxygen to be carried around.

The result is a device about 45×18 centimeters in size that produces oxygen without the need of a thermo-dynamic process.