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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 135 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 83 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 70 points 10 months ago

Chudhotep XXXVIII

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Best friends with American Jesus, the super tall white guy with long hair.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago

I wish cumskin Jesus was real, it'd be a good bit.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

this is the face they invented crackers for

[–] Othello@hexbear.net 84 points 10 months ago (1 children)

egyptian people should be allowed to kill anyone who makes up shit about the pyramids at this point.

[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

There’s a reason Klan leadership pivoted into writing esoteric and supernatural “nonfiction” a couple decades back. That shit is insidious.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago

refuses to allow genetic testing of early emperors

shows a picture of a fucking taklamakan mummy. mmmm yes so prehistoric China had a claim in modern Xinjiang then? lenin-sure genetic testing is just elevated phrenology anyway, all it actually tells you is what groups/modern people are related to a particular corpse, or group of corpses. it can help identify some movements of people but provides zero insight into the culture or language or social status of the people. there is no white people gene, we don't actually know how mummies looked or skulls looked in life.

also there aren't any verified early emperor burials what the fuck are they talking about. the ban was on all kinds of archaeological corpses because westoids kept fucking stealing samples to do phrenology with

but like the second one has to be bait what self-respecting white supremacist wouldn't say something like the coliseum and just claim it's more impressive than the pyramids?????

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 66 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Genghis Khan? White.

Xerxes? White.

Jesus? White

Mohammed? White.

Sargon of Akkad? White.

The entire population of Australopithecus? Believe it or not, white.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sargon of Akkad? White.

I mean there's some maw Anglo Island dipshit using his name so, two Pinocchios for this line.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Carl Of Swindon? Extremely white.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago

Also British, a right bastard, and a culture thief. But I'm repeating myself

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Genghis Khan? White

23 minutes of hardcore debunking on that claim (which i know was a bit but it's cool historiography)

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

literally finding it funny that ghengis khan looks pretty much exactly what wed expect him to look like based off what we can observe of typical modern mongolian men but you have to actually convince some shitass white dudes that this obvious thing is true and real

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Like anyone even seriously proposing that theory today? Those are PDX forum morons just take the Secret History telling us he was a redhead and then go straight for their "everyone was a Tocharian" usual nonsense.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

racists always be. but i really like that guy, mans so good. a video that could've been 30 seconds of "no" is a detailed study of all available sources extremely proving the obvious beyond any shadow of doubt. i appreciate.

tocharians are a real bullshit thing named after a pretty discrete area in the tarim basin but some 19th century euro guy who associated them with references to tokharistan (several hundred kms south and over a mountain range) has stuck in the nomenclature without any academic support for it

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"If we steal from your culture is it really your culture anymore?"cracker

[–] mustGo@hexbear.net 64 points 10 months ago
[–] guts@lemmy.ml 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 53 points 10 months ago (8 children)

clown-to-clown-communication

Atlantians were proto whites/proto Faustians. I'm assuming that's what Spengler says in Early Days of World History

It's more complicated than that. European cultures begin as an alchemical merging of Atlantean and Turanian elements.

Turanian? I would've thought Nemedian or Poitainian over them. Aquilonian even.

clown-to-clown-conversation

internet-delenda-est

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

The most embarrassing part of that exchange is believing Spengler

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Turanian? I would've thought Nemedian or Poitainian over them. Aquilonian even.

what do any of these words mean

I don't want to go down a white supremacist Google hole, which I fully expect to happen if I just search them blindly

could someone who is a little more online please tell me wtf any of those proper nouns mean?

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[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've often wondered how all of this nonsense could work when it is all inherently contradictory, now I know. They just have a conversation where they use fancy words to sound smart without knowing what any of these words mean.

Parrots are better for conversation than these bozos. At least a parrot can be nice and direct and isn't deeply insecure about their intelligence and making it everyone else's problem.

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[–] eight@hexbear.net 52 points 10 months ago

damn china and their dastardly archeological integrity

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, on the one hand i couldn’t care less about imperial bloodlines. Its all a bunch of made up bullshit. Why not test them?

On the other hand, idgaf about China not allowing testing, either. They’re Chinas mummies or corpses or bodies or whatever. They can do whatever they want with their silly imperial nonsense ideas.

Test them. Or dont. what the fuck does it actually matter to anyone?

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean, on the one hand i couldn’t care less about imperial bloodlines.

No, no, no. Hear me out. Consider a subpopulation of people that exist in a tiny private city, never leave the house, demand everyone wait on them hand-and-foot like gods, and then repeatedly get rolled by "primitive" neighbors every time they want to do some light imperialism on their borders.

Test them. Or dont.

"You won't let us test your emperors!" is the thin edge of the pseudo-science gobblegock edge, wherein some whiny cranks at The University of Jesus Iowa with PhDs in Time Cube Maths send threatening letters to the local Chinese consulate demanding first class tickets to the Beijing Museum Of Fake Science to debunk claims made about how many angels can dance on the end of a pin.

Its just another Alex Jones "We Have The Documents" rant.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

White Nation of Islam guy who believes Yakub was actually white and invented white people out of love

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't Israel just not allow DNA heritage testing at all? Why is this specifically beyond the pale?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because they might discover that a good chunk of Palestinians are descendants of people who were there before the diaspora every happened.

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[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When you sprinkle a bit of great man theory on top of your racism:

« The emperor was white for real! What? What do you mean the emperor didn’t build the entire Chinese civilization all by himself? He was the emperor I tell you THE EMPEROR! »

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

your brain on Warhammer 40k:

[–] CarmineCatboy@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago

they claim that about everyone

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey, just checking in with you @autismdragon

Are you doing ok? Don't damage your mental health looking at all this vitriol on twitter, take care of yourself. :)

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh stuff like this doesnt bother me that much. When i see dumb stuff on there, i bring it to the dunk tank because thats what its for. Some stuff bothers me but not this. This is just silly

Thanks though!

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[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago (6 children)

AutismDragon really doing gods work trolling Twitter for premium brain poison. o7 comrade

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[–] TraumaDumpling@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i actually heard a similar thing about Japan from one of my college anthropology professors, they (sourcelessly) implied that japan refused to test because they didn't want people to know the royal family was actually Korean or something. I could see the Chinese government wanting to just completely avoid any kind of stupid historical culture shock that could come from similar testing.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's not really a secret that most early Japanese culture was just shamelessly copying China until they eventually developed their own thing. Wouldn't be surprising if the nobility had Chinese or Korean blood in there.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months ago

ah, the Reverse Hotep, a rare specimen

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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