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

On May 26, 2025 at 8:40:58 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
 

On 5/25/2025 9:58 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

  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.

>
This is "whataboutism" being preached to the choir...

 "Whataboutism" is a concept invented to prevent people from holding the
inventors accountable for their hypocrisy.