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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 11:46:48 -0400
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On 5/25/2025 9:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On May 25, 2025 at 2:32:07 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> 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...
> 
> Or they just made up the documents to suit a political agenda, like they did
> with the Cheddar Man example in my original post.

"Or *probably*", even.  But the point is that legislation needs a 
qualitative abstract basis for dismissing such cockamamie stuff. 
"That's obviously retarded!" doesn't cut it.