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

On May 25, 2025 at 6:02:32 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
 

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:
>

  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?

 It's ironic and somewhat legally inexplicable that the Supreme Court ruled the
10 Commandments to be an unacceptable violation of the 1st Amendment in
government buildings (schools), when the 10 Commandments are inscribed on the
walls of the Supreme Court itself.