• cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Nope, bullshit lies based on less than zero understanding oh history and some crazy racism against indigenous peoples of generally everywhere but the Americas in fucking particular.

    Fuck you and fuck your made up racost bullshit please.

    I read four paragraphs in and the only thing I can find that isn’t a blatant lie is that tools can be used to make work easier, and even that is deployed in a deceptive manner that elides other ways to save labor that real historical cultures have practiced.

    Like there’s no part of this that is true. Read ‘the dawn of everything: a new history of humanity’ and ‘debt: the first five thousand years’ for a very bare bones but actually real scholarship account of how any of this shit happened by actual scholars who examined history and evidence and facts. As I recall at least one of those was a little bit of a doorstopper, as actual not just made the fuck up racism to justify your bullshit actual fucking history tends to be.

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      4 months ago

      Could you try explaining what the user said that was incorrect instead of calling them racist four times and citing some book?

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        4 months ago

        All of it except ‘tools can be helpful’, as I said.

        And offered something that explains the real version of what they’re making shit up about-books written at least in part to address the fact people just make shit up about early humanity and the origins of things like social forms and hierarchy and money based on what they think makes sense from what they can see right now in the present day. And the fact its made up.

        No I can’t explain in detail, like I said they told too many lies for that, and suggested two books that would do that.

        Once you have read those, if you still need me to explain why I think that was racist, I’ll try in very small words.

        Did you not read my comment? I feel like you just asked for things I said in my original comment.

        The truth is big and complex and lies are simple and fit just-so. The truth is bigger and messier and always more complicated and almost always stranger. Hence entire volumes of work.

        I even cited scholarly work, if not in strict academic format! so if you want to be a fucking debatelord about it, you are free to do so.

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      I’m not writing about modernity, let alone the Americas. You’ll find no disagreement from me that the way European Imperialists forced their culture on indigenous people was an atrocity.

      The history I’m talking about is centered on Europe, because that’s what I know most about. Simplified, sure, but if you want the full version you might as well read these series on agricultural subsistence, textile production and the general outline of the lives of pre-modern peasants, with all the attendant insights into the social structures of those times. Which, by the way, were written by a real historian, thoroughly sourced with history and evidence and facts, and with all the appropriate caveats that I omitted because I’m not writing a fucking dissertation when I’m trying to show that education is a key ingredient to even properly understanding the shitshow we’re in.

      I’m pretty sure we agree on the last part too, if you weren’t hung up on hostility about a topic I neither mentioned not disagree with you on.

      So can we be civil and try to help me understand what part of this comes across as racist to you? Or at least some substantial criticism instead of “this is all wrong, but I’m not telling you how”? What part do these books explain that I got wrong?