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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Did you know that blacks built Stonehenge?
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 11:38:52 -0400
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On 5/25/2025 10:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 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.

Grandfathered.

And Grandfather is occasionally senile.