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

On 5/25/2025 9:02 PM, Rhino 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:
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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:
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  Leo Kearse provides examples of the nonsense that schoolchildren in
  Britain are being taught these days, including the preposterous lie that
  blacks built Stonehenge.
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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_59qWR2xLnA [8 minutes]

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  I have no idea what they mean when they protest *in* Britain to
  'decolonize' academic curriculum.
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  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.
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  And how do they claim at the same time that:
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  (1) Historical Britons were black, and
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  (2) Britain stole all the wealth from Africa and India
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  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.
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  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.

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

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

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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...
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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?
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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.

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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?

To show that a basis for discounting, e.g., "absurd history" is hard to articulate, and thus, to legislate.

...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?
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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?

Because it flouts "freedom from religion", and that scares some of us.