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

On May 25, 2025 at 3:29:32 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> 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:

 
 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 ...especially
since the recent challenges do have a rather blatant p.c. aspect.  I'm
suggesting we should question our blithe acceptance of "history".  Did
you know that Texas classrooms are to display the Ten Commandments,
justified because they're an historical part of our democracy?

On the other hand, if you're one of the 'progressive' Marxists who run
California schools, you're allowed to force the kids to participate in any
religious ceremony or prayer you like, just so long as it's not Christian.

Several years ago, the San Francisco schools were caught bringing imams into
the classroom and having the kids recite the Muslim prayer of conversion to
Islam. Yet the two words "under god" in the pledge of allegiance are
supposedly unconstitutional because "we all know they refer to the Christian
god".

Of course, if they'd brought in a Catholic priest to say the Liturgy,  forcing
the children to participate no less, the ACLU would have shit itself and
wouldn't have been able to file lawsuits fast enough.