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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 15:27:21 -0400
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On 5/26/2025 2:08 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 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.

Then it would first own up to the initial claim.  (It never does.)

>