yet no fag gene to be found...
Posted on 06/05/2009 1:46:32 PM PDT by LottieDah
Boys who have a so-called "warrior gene" are more likely to join gangs and also more likely to be among the most violent members and to use weapons, a new study finds.
"While gangs typically have been regarded as a sociological phenomenon, our investigation shows that variants of a specific MAOA gene, known as a 'low-activity 3-repeat allele,' play a significant role," said biosocial criminologist Kevin M. Beaver of Florida State University.
In 2006, the controversial warrior gene was implicated in the violence of the indigenous Maori people in New Zealand, a claim that Maori leaders dismissed.
But it's no surprise that genes would be involved in aggression. Aggression is a primal emotion like many others, experts say, and like cooperation, it is part of human nature, something that's passed down genetically. And almost all mammals are aggressive in some way or another, said Craig Kennedy, professor of special education and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, whose research last year suggested that humans crave violence just like they do sex, food or drugs.
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Are you a liberal?
My father still remembers Sergeant Steadman from 1942 . . . .
Hero & Leander. I like it.
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You know this how? At that time there were no gang-bangers to speak of in NYC, it was a West Coast thing.
Kids join gangs in order to have the family closeness they don't get at home and because they can get away with sh** they couldn't ordinarily do, such as beating the crap out of someone with a 6 to 1 odds ratio.
Sorry to burst your bubble but gangs STARTED on the east coast back in the 19th century, NYC was one of the worse places for gangs!
Boys raised by single mothers more likely to join gangs.
yet no fag gene to be found...
Bump for Parris Island (I was class of 1967)...
The training structure in Mississippi preparing for American entry into WWII was a bit different than it was by 1942 so they compartmentalized a lot of the different features. The cadre that ran the barracks did not also get involved in training.
None of these guys went to jail for anything.
Parents can "guide" these warrior gene people to take on the toughest of life's assignments.
Part of the difference here is that we have men who were in every important military force on Earth over the last 50 years.
They know.
> At that time there were no gang-bangers to speak of in NYC, it was a West Coast thing.
We may be hung up on a terminology thing. DownUnder we call anybody who actually belongs to a gang a “gang-banger”.
You had gangs in NYC such as the Rampers, Savage Skulls &tc in the 1970’s. They did not go about on roller skates or dress up like the Baseball Furies of “The Warriors” fame.
> You know this how?
I know because I have made it my business to know.
We were talking about the 1970s, not the 1800s, weren’t we? Since I was a cop in the city at that time I think I might have some idea of what the gang deal was or, to be more precise, wasn’t.
> Since I was a cop in the city at that time I think I might have some idea of what the gang deal was or, to be more precise, wasn’t.
I’d be interested to learn your perception of what the gang deal was or wasn’t in NYC in the 1970’s. I’ve heard and read from several sources, but not from anybody from NYPD.
The only gang to carry through (except for biker gangs like the original Savage Skulls) was the Latin Kings and they took a back seat to the Central American gangs in the 80s-90s. Even the Bloods and Crips couldn't get much traction. Modern day NYC is just not a gang town, sorry.
That’s probably a variant of the interior decorator gene. Anyone who describes colors as something other than the normal colors along with either light or dark used as an adjective has something different going on.
As I wrote in an earlier post there were very localized gangs in the Houses but nothing like the LA or Chicago scene.
When the Bloods-Crips thing got national attention we in NYC realized how lucky we were to have dodged that particular bullet. There was some activity in the 80s that targeted innocents with initiation attacks. If you saw some black guy or woman on the subway or street with a new smile on one side then it was a good bet that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. If they had a new smile on both sides they had really pissed off some drug guy.
There were no entire neighborhoods one could not go because of gang-control (unless you were black and wandered into areas of Bensonhurst or Gravesend - but then it was just the gavones on the street (mostly wannabees for the Heavy Fathers)keeping the neighborhood clean.
Chinatown always had gangs but they preyed on their own.
> Modern day NYC is just not a gang town, sorry.
And La Cosa Nostra...?
Beatiful, sensual women. Strong, uncompromising men. These things are anathema to the global statist dream of a planet of compliant peasants.
Some of us like our genes just the way they are. They got us here, and will maintain our progeny long after the weak and perverted have left the memory of man.
> As I wrote in an earlier post there were very localized gangs in the Houses but nothing like the LA or Chicago scene.
During the 1970’s the growth in gangs in LA skewed the statistics for gang membership significantly. To what I can see, that hasn’t stopped. They really do need to do something about that as it has gotten out of hand IMO.
> When the Bloods-Crips thing got national attention we in NYC realized how lucky we were to have dodged that particular bullet.
I wish we could say the same. It has captured the imagination of the youth here, and it drives quite alot of the crime. They lack much of the sophistication of their American counterparts, but give them time.
My interest in the US gangs and their history stems from the fact that what happens over there inevitably gets copied over here in some form. I’ve been building files on the subject now for just over four years — partly a hobby, partly of necessity.
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