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In response to racist idiots on Tumblr
May. 11th, 2017 10:53 pmOn Tumblr there was a post by some racist idiot that basically said "LOL why is there a black guy in Malefiscent? Black people weren't in Europe back then!" This was a rant related to that:
Subject: I hate these racist historical revisionist assholes.
Body:
JFC! Seriously, Thor Heyerdahl proved the Egyptians could've gone to the Americas in their boats, their boats weren't even half as good as the ones the Phoenicians had, the Americas are loaded with a fuckton of evidence that ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, India, and China visited the Americas thousands of years before most European cultures (especially any of the white European cultures!) had so much as invented the dinghy, and yet thanks to the old white racist men controlling the Establishment in archaeology we've got to deal with 90% of people thinking black people weren't in Europe in the middle ages.
Seriously, white Europeans wouldn't have even been in Ireland or Britain if the ice age hadn't created a land bridge there and stranded some of them there. I'm trying to remember if the Celts or Germans or any other white European cultures had any kind of boats at all before Rome conquered them and I'm honestly drawing a blank. So unless I'm misremembering, it's 1000 times more of a stretch to believe white people were in Africa before the rise of Rome than it is to believe black people were in medieval Europe, even before considering the historical fact that they were there.
And even if nothing else, unless you're telling me that white people are literal pure-blooded Neanderthals instead of hybrids like most humans are these days, people from Africa were in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago! Now admittedly they were probably mostly banished albinos, but there were most likely black Africans among them, too.
This kind of shit is why I hate the racist white Establishment in archaeology. Not only are they responsible for so many people thinking black people in medieval Europe were rarer than hen's teeth, they're also to blame for shit like people thinking ancient structures like pyramids were either built by aliens or Atlanteans or by using magic. Fuck the Establishment, and fuck racists. With a CHAINSAW.
Subject: I hate these racist historical revisionist assholes.
Body:
JFC! Seriously, Thor Heyerdahl proved the Egyptians could've gone to the Americas in their boats, their boats weren't even half as good as the ones the Phoenicians had, the Americas are loaded with a fuckton of evidence that ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, India, and China visited the Americas thousands of years before most European cultures (especially any of the white European cultures!) had so much as invented the dinghy, and yet thanks to the old white racist men controlling the Establishment in archaeology we've got to deal with 90% of people thinking black people weren't in Europe in the middle ages.
Seriously, white Europeans wouldn't have even been in Ireland or Britain if the ice age hadn't created a land bridge there and stranded some of them there. I'm trying to remember if the Celts or Germans or any other white European cultures had any kind of boats at all before Rome conquered them and I'm honestly drawing a blank. So unless I'm misremembering, it's 1000 times more of a stretch to believe white people were in Africa before the rise of Rome than it is to believe black people were in medieval Europe, even before considering the historical fact that they were there.
And even if nothing else, unless you're telling me that white people are literal pure-blooded Neanderthals instead of hybrids like most humans are these days, people from Africa were in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago! Now admittedly they were probably mostly banished albinos, but there were most likely black Africans among them, too.
This kind of shit is why I hate the racist white Establishment in archaeology. Not only are they responsible for so many people thinking black people in medieval Europe were rarer than hen's teeth, they're also to blame for shit like people thinking ancient structures like pyramids were either built by aliens or Atlanteans or by using magic. Fuck the Establishment, and fuck racists. With a CHAINSAW.
