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Subject: Re: [OT] Did you know that blacks built Stonehenge?
Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 21:02:32 -0400
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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?

-- 
Rhino