Re: [OT] Did you know that blacks built Stonehenge?

On 2025-05-25 6:29 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 5/25/2025 5:44 PM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-05-25 5:32 PM, moviePig wrote:

On 5/25/2025 4:52 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 25, 2025 at 12:56:44 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com>
wrote:
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On 5/25/2025 3:45 PM, Rhino wrote:

  On 2025-05-25 2:35 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  On May 25, 2025 at 8:16:43 AM PDT, "Rhino"
  <no_offline_contact@example.com>
  wrote:
>

  Leo Kearse provides examples of the nonsense that
schoolchildren in
  Britain are being taught these days, including the
preposterous lie that
  blacks built Stonehenge.
>
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_59qWR2xLnA [8 minutes]

>
  I have no idea what they mean when they protest *in* Britain to
  'decolonize' academic curriculum.
>
  Britain was never a colony. They were the colonizers. I could
  understand if
  they were protesting in India or some African country that was
  colonized by
  Britain, or even here in America, which used to be British
colonies.
  But how
  do you 'decolonize' Britain itself? It was never a colony in
the first
  place. It's a logical oxymoron.
>
  And how do they claim at the same time that:
>
  (1) Historical Britons were black, and
>
  (2) Britain stole all the wealth from Africa and India
>
  If the second part is true, then what's their gripe with white
people?
  They should be bitching about all those black Britons that
stole the
wealth of
  Africa.
>

  Agreed: all of the claims made by the anti-whites are an flat-
out lies.
  As such, they need to be removed from the history books so that
kids are
  NOT taught this nonsense, otherwise they'll grow up actually
believing
  it, making it that much harder to expunge in a future
generation. There
  will be a genuine danger that this nonsense will be accepted as
fact
  forever more.

>
As usual, the flaw in the ointment is that there's no absolute arbiter
of Truth.

>
There is with regard to the claim 'black people built Stonehenge', FFS.

>
If 'history books' were acknowledged to comprise merely a
*predominant* view of past events, then they could rationally reject
any absurdities. But real-world claims of 'unassailable truth' are
never sustainable. E.g,, I'm guessing the blackHenge crowd have
documents, too...
>
>

Do you know when Stonehenge was built? Do you have any idea how many
people in that time and place were literate enough to create
documents? Did they even have a written language that long ago? And
that's assuming they had paper and ink to make records in the first
place. Or are you of the mind that they chiseled these records into
clay tablets? If so, do you have any reason to believe they knew how
to do that?
>
Are you COMPLETELY clueless? Don't you understand that this claim of
black builders of Stonehenge is just a game of cultural appropriation
by "activists"? They want to feel like blacks were significant going
back to the earliest days of the country so they're simply claiming to
have been a major part of things all the way along.

 
I'm not disputing longstanding accounts of Stonehenge

>
You're not? Then why did you suggest the possibility of documentary
evidence supporting the idea that Stonehenge was built by blacks at a
time and place when it was extremely unlikely that a written language
even existed, let alone the means to record that written language?
>

...especially
since the recent challenges do have a rather blatant p.c. aspect.  I'm
suggesting we should question our blithe acceptance of "history". 

>
I have no idea what you are saying.
>

Did
you know that Texas classrooms are to display the Ten Commandments,
justified because they're an historical part of our democracy?
 
 

Yes, I saw a headline to that effect. As far as the Ten Commandments
being part of history, that is obviously true. There's also a reasonable
argument that the Ten Commandments were a basic set of laws that
informed later laws like the ones governing our respective countries and
the state of Texas. You're apparently clutching your pearls at the
thought of them being on the wall. Why?