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30 Times People Tried To Share Their Knowledge Of History Online But Embarrassed Themselves Instead
We humans spend lots of time studying and analyzing the most essential moments of our history. After all, many of us strive to better understand our past and the world we live in. But knowledge also includes failure. While some people keep their factual mishaps low-key, others loudly declare their silly (and usually false!) opinions, making people smack their foreheads in disbelief.
Whether it's thinking that the Berlin Wall worked or that learning about WWII is bad for your mental health, some people clearly had a hard time with history, and it shows. Enter the subreddit r/FacePalm, self-described as "a gallery of inexplicable stupidity". The moderators ask the members to share screenshots of human idiocy, all for your amusement.
Bored Panda has selected the best examples of people making a complete fool of themselves and rightfully getting shamed for it online. Continue scrolling and upvote the ones you enjoyed most! And if you’re in the mood for some more stupidity of individuals both online and in real life, check out our previous posts here and here.
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#1
Burnnnnnnnnnnnn
Vicky Zar 3 years ago
Autsch. Sadly, they will not learn from this. What gets me the most is, that this guy seams to think that everything a woman does, is just a means to appeal to men. Seriously. As if woman had no life on their own.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
It doesn't help that the Bible says that Eve was created "for" Adam...
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JP Doyle 3 years ago
Ironically, for the original comment by Richard, his image of beauty is very modern. The classical view of feminine beauty was very lush with judicious padding.
Will Lanni 3 years ago
I'm at the grocery store looking for a Valentine's card that has lush and judicious in it.
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Zet 3 years ago
HOW does Richard think do we achieve a hourglass-figure? trough positive vibes and Piña Colada? I wish it was that easy Richard, i really do.!
Vexorg2 3 years ago
Sooo not margaritas, pasta, & tiramisu?.... Now I want tiramisu 😭
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Diane Aguilar 3 years ago
I love James Fell so, so very much. He's my fave historian on social media, he's always astute about whatever observations he makes about what's going on in the world, and he's very, very witty. And I love that he knows about my fave musical artist, something not a lot of people can claim (it's a Canadian band called Strange Advance, just FYI).
Tho Nguyen 3 years ago
Thumbs up for James. As for Richard, good luck finding a woman who's willing to accept your "little man" complex.
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#2
Dear Athiests:
QibliOfTheSandWings 3 years ago
I’ve seen it a couple times and it never fails to be one of my favorites
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John Baker 3 years ago
In my personal experience, not all Christians in general are stupid, but most fundamentalists are.
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#3
Won't Somebody Please Think Of The
- 3 years ago (edited)
As my better half pointed out, the KKK had family picnics. It's easy for bigots to be kind to those they consider their own kind. How they treat other humans outside their own group is the real test of humanity.
Mimi 3 years ago
German here - people were forced to shut up, but nobody was forced to actively support the nazis (except kids whose parents made them go to hitler-youth.) People who supported did so because they chose to. I know as one set of my grandparents were nazis and members of the nazi party whereas the other set steered clear, hated Hitler but shut up to stay safe. All of my grandparents were being nice to ME - but one side severly messed up, supported a terror regime, supported mass murder, supported human catastrophe.
der sebbl 3 years ago
Not to mention that there was kind of brainwashing involved. My granddad really liked the Hitlerjugend because he enjoyed going camping and stuff. He was too young to realise what the HJ really meant back then
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Aliquid 3 years ago
An extremely important thing that people seem to miss... someone can be "kind" and polite and at the same time support evil. Do not judge a person's morality based on how friendly they are to YOU. Judge them on how they ACT, what they DO, and what the people they support do.
JoeShmoeDeLaKokomoe🇺🇦 3 years ago
Idk about "what the people they support do"... Too many people have been cancelled for supporting a brand/person that in turn supported something bad. If I supported Ellen DeGeneres at one point I am not necessarily a bad person because she is mean. I agree with the rest of your statement though.
Load More Replies... Seedy Vine 3 years ago
"You've already judged them based on a group generalization" - Isn't that exactly what nazis do to other races? lol
Earl Grey 3 years ago
Here is the official KKK group generalization, which includes this: “To maintain forever white supremacy. To maintain forever the God- given supremacy of the white race. Every Klansman has unqualifiedly affirmed that he will faithfully strive for the eternal maintenance of white supremacy." Klansman’s Manual (1925): https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/227kkkmanual.html
Load More Replies... Johnny 3 years ago
There are some parallels to the situation in Russia -- many Russians refuse to believe that Putin is bad and comitting atrocities, they still believe he's trying to help Ukraine. A few years back, I met the Russian parents of a formerly Russian coworker, they were super nice, soft spoken, his dad and I shared a hobby and we spoke at great length about it (he spoke very good English). But despite them being well educated with a son that's now an American citizen, they refuse to believe what is happening and what Putin is doing to Ukraine and their own country, and they can't understand why the world has turned against them. It's shocking to see the power of media control and brainwashing, but we've certainly seen it in the USA as well.
Naesil 3 years ago
US propaganda is even more successful in a way that its not that obvious, but still majority will probably say they are the greatest country (which might be true on a country level but definitely not for the average citizen) every war effort US does seem to have lot of support and then after the fact US people will laugh at us europeans for our problems not realizing that bunch of our issues are because of US meddling overseas. Cant remember how many times american have commented to me that "dont come crying for US to help you if you are so good" (when pointing any statistic that US is not #1), they dont seem to understand that we as a 5 million people country with 1300 kilometers of border with Russia obviously have to cry for help if they attack us.. its like one of US smaller side states being attacked by a country of 144 million people and then asking other states to help (with the difference that we wont be walked over but will obviously crumble under massive missile threat)
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Bryn 3 years ago
No person is 100% bad. They are still capable of enjoying things and being nice to people they love. Key words being 'they love'. People they deem acceptable and worthy. The fact that your family might love you doesn't get rid of the fact that they want hundreds of thousands of people they have never met to die (:
Ozacoter 3 years ago
That is absolutely true. My grandma is the most loving woman ever to her kids and grandkids. Hovewer she is an extreme racist and homophobic. Is she good? Well not completely. But she isnt completely evil either
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Stephanie IV 3 years ago
Hitler seemed to have liked his dog. That doesn’t make him a nice person.
- 3 years ago
That's a reason (among several) why I don't trust the claim that "Dogs are good judges of character".
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Tho Nguyen 3 years ago
Kind and wonderful to you (their family member/friend) maybe, but not to others they deemed unworthy, and wrongfully so.
Since its creation in 2009, the Facepalm subreddit has been steadily growing and becoming a true powerhouse of more than 6.1 million members ready to document people’s stupidity from forums, social media sites, or just real life. It comes as a great source of entertainment, and a dedicated moderator team stands right at the center of it.
One person who looks after this online group told Bored Panda in a previous interview that they moderate it "according to Reddit's content policy and that means that most of the comment moderation we do is to remove bigotry and racism," they said. "The subreddit's community is fine, for the most part. A lot of people come here to have a laugh at whatever silly thing is being posted and that's ok."
#4
Uhh Moment.
Tobin Kern 3 years ago
That false equivalence is stupid because the officer went to prison. That would be like us killing Bin Laden (like we did) and then bombing India....
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Aria Whitaker 3 years ago
The "wrong" that Charlie is stating is a lie though...name ONE American city that "burned down" during the Floyd protests.....
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Felipe Souza 3 years ago
Well, the bombing of Iraq and Afeghanistan killed lots of people and caused a lot more destruction and suffering than the protests, so...
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JoeShmoeDeLaKokomoe🇺🇦 3 years ago
The thought is that Charlie Kirk would be pro-war in the Middle East, and therefore hypocritical... The problem is Jacobs is equating Floyd's death with 9-11.
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#5
The Deadly Argument For Going Natural
Jods 3 years ago
Polio and other diseases such as measles, rubella, etc. are still rife in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Tuberculosis has also made a comeback in some parts of the UK. Just because someone claims that having vaccines will make your children sterile.
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pigasus1 3 years ago
I barely remember life before the polio vaccine, but what I do remember is the palpable fear one felt from the adults. You could quite literally go to sleep healthy as a mule and awaken paralyzed from the neck down, including your lungs. I had several friends with different degrees of injury from polio. I'm still deathly afraid of it.
Trevor Nicholson 3 years ago
People with diabetes literally just died before Insulin was discovered. Polio and small pox were common things before. Going natural is such a stupid concept.
Kantami Blossom 3 years ago
Anybody that says things like that should be beaten with a history book specialising on the Black Death.
Eppe 3 years ago (edited)
I once read somewhere: Nature wants you to outlive 5 of your 7 children and die at age 30. Everything else is science.
MiriPanda 3 years ago
Where does this come from? Is this about the "2000 years ago no one lived beyond the age of 35" nonsense?
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i saw someone saying "ThE BLaCk DeATh WeNT AWaY wITHouT A vACciNE" yes but also like a third of europe died
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
No it didn't "go away". Even the United States has 6 or 7 cases of Bubonic plague per year. It's only because our hygiene practices improved so much that we don't sleep with rats and fleas anymore.
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Honza Slavinger 3 years ago
The only problem is covid is not a deadly pandemic and can be cured pretty easily.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Tell Carol to go to a graveyard and count all the graves of dead children. Most of them died before 1950. There are hardly any after that. Why? Vaccines, Carol, antibiotics, Carol.
#6
“If Masks Were Necessary We Would Have Evolved One By Now” Lmao
Aroha 3 years ago
Neil, you don't actually stick the mask IN your mouth or your nostrils... Your airways are just fine. (Also, Neil, would you be happy if a surgeon operating on you did not wear one?)
Bella Jones 3 years ago
I'll bet Neil wouldn't enjoy being operated on without anaesthetic, either.
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xolitaire 3 years ago
Has anyone ever told this person that evolution - which is basically the process of adapting to changing environments and living conditions - takes many thousand years? So yeah, maybe someday in the year 20k we won't need noses and mouths. Until then WEAR A MASK!
Monday 3 years ago
and if we were meant to communicate long distance we would have been born with telepathy
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Ozymandias73 3 years ago
God I hate this ideology. Instantly shut down by common sense. Can't believe people even thought this was a "good" argument.
Shortstuff 3 years ago
Neil was born fully clothed with shoes, probably glasses on, hair shampooed and brushed., and holding a bible.
When it comes to the topics that are well-liked by the community, the moderator said they can change quite fast. "[What's popular] really depends on what is on people's minds at the time. Currently, a popular topic is the insane lengths people go through to deny the facts about Covid."
You see, there’s truly no end to human stupidity. Some people will always be ignorant and believe they can become experts in politics, science, and whatnot overnight and blare their ideas online. Well, thanks to the members of this community who hunt down ridiculous posts, they do everyone a public service by shaming them online.
#7
Yeah I Think Native Americans Know More About The Land If They Lived Longer In It(Forgot To Add A Flair)
Sam 3 years ago
Just like white people didn't believe Aboriginal Australians that birds of prey deliberately spread wildfires. Till they documented it on film
Buren 3 years ago
I bet they are still resentful with the other bird, Emu.
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TyrantrumGogoat 3 years ago
Native Americans were way ahead of everything, I hate the way they were treated.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Yep. White people go into what is now Colorado, think "Yee-haw!" The tribes said, "Yeah, bad idea, this is an unusually wet cycle of weather, your crops and plans won't last." What happened? The wet cycle ended, the crops and plans flopped, and there we were.
Jace 3 years ago
Same in Australia. There was a lot of news about wildfires and it’s connection to climate change, while in fact it was just a question of bad policies - the Aboriginals knew about controlled burns and practiced it for a long time, to prevent worse fires. The Australian government abandoned these practices, and we all have seen the result.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
That's half true- there are less control burn happening now because there is climate change, meaning conditions are not suitable for it as often. We don't want to create more of a problem by starting fires when they cannot be controlled.
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François Carré 3 years ago
This is a mere example of that new form of ideology we might have trouble with in the future : "green colonialism". Basically, white capitalists claiming they're going to handle the preservation of large wildlife zones, provided they can get rid of the people who actually managed to live there quite sustainably for centuries.
Adrian 3 years ago
But the officials won't carry it out the same way the original inhabitants did. Not scattered small and low-intensity burns to provide a mosaic of new and old growth and bare patches for wildlife in the event of a bigger fire. Nope, that is too costly and labour intensive. So lets burn whole counties or ranges every 10 years using aerial incendiaries. No account taken of place that need a small burn every 100 years or others that need a fire every 5 years. Just a one-size fits all approach. OFFICIAL "Well that didn't work did it, so lets go back to doing nothing".
RedMarbles 3 years ago
Not sure how NPR embarrassed themselves here. They seem to also be pointing out the absurdity.
Tobin Kern 3 years ago
Just like Trump said.... people made fun of him for saying Finland rakes their forrests. Finland confirmed they do this and now California along with Colorado actively rake the forest floor to reduce wildfires
Klas Klättermus 3 years ago (edited)
So why are these fires called a result of climate change if they have been going on for hundreds of years?
Logic and Reason 3 years ago
Because they are much more damaging and frequent.
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Antivax Logic
Virgil Blue 3 years ago
True, plus if a grave from that period is discovered it it will be checked to be sure the pathogen isn't still viable and hiding in there.
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Monica Houghton 3 years ago (edited)
The black plague was caused by yersinia pestis - a bacteria. Bacteria are typically treated with antibiotics. Viruses are typically treated with antivirals, which are usually not specific and not very effective. Viruses are typically prevented by vaccines. Vaccines are not used against bacteria. You're welcome for this small dose of science education.
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
The plague didn't disappear but it reduced dramatically due to sanitisation, quarantine and a wonderful creation called antibiotics. People still get the plague today but it is easily treatable if detected early.
Earl Grey 3 years ago
“If detected early.” Doctors might not recognize it before it is too late. This is why is was called the Black Death: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/18/oregon-man-case-plague
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FloC 3 years ago
Could someone explain them that the plague is due to a bacteria and not a virus...
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
We're trying to get him to understand that it actually killed lots of people. Attempting to explain whether it's a virus or a bacteria might be a bit too much for him to handle.
Load More Replies... xolitaire 3 years ago
It didn't disappear. It literally ran it's course. It wasn't spread by humans, but by the fleas carried by rats. Covid and the Plague are two very different things. So unless you want to help Covid do the same and take a huge chunk of the worlds population with it, get f*cking vaccinated
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Well, actually, it may have started with rats, but very quickly the "bubonic" plague turned into the "pneumonic" plague, which allowed everyone who breathed to pass it on to anyone else. It was the pneumonic plague that wiped out a third of Europe's population. (Actually, it wiped out a third of the world's population. It also decimated the middle and far east as well)
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Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah but maybe they died with the plague, not from the plague, just saying /sarcasm
BlackestDawn 3 years ago
I'm fairly sure they've used historical records to make a good estimation of of those who did die from the plague by using actual death records from some years before and after to calculate what a "normal" death rate should have been, in addition to official death records from those years.
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HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
and is still in existence today, unfortunately. Especially in third world countries. But we have drugs to cure all three types. Septicemic, pneumonic, and everyone's favorite, bubonic.
Al Christensen 3 years ago
To which the ignoramus replies: Right, but no Americans died. Woo-hoo! U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!!!!
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
Surprisingly, there are about 6 cases of the plague every year in the US, mostly in the southwestern states.
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Notyomama 3 years ago
I've read a couple of articles stating that the plague is in some places at Yellowstone.
Parthania Dawson 3 years ago
I went to Badlands National Park in South Dakota. They have signs warning you that prairie dogs have plague. And people feed those little buggers so some of them will come to you.
Load More Replies... Honza Slavinger 3 years ago
Yes and covid killed barely anyone no matter what people did against it or didn't do. So... what is the point of this c**p?
#9
Ironic Idiots
Thorsten M. Weisner 3 years ago
And the country that defeated it started by european colonization
Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
*Flies confederate flag* "We're the party of Lincoln!!!!" - today's dumb conservatives.
JoeShmoeDeLaKokomoe🇺🇦 3 years ago
Yep. Oddly enough the confederacy was composed the Democratic party of that time.
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lgbt_squid.12 3 years ago
yep and probs most of them immigrated from somewhere else unless they are descended from native americans or native hawaiians
Nena Rosebud 3 years ago
Unfortunately, they're too stupid to be ashamed. Nothing sadder than the willfully ignorant.
Load More Replies... Allison B 3 years ago
Sigh. I hate people like this. Gives Americans especially ones from the south a bad name. My family is from South Carolina and most people there are not like that. The ones that are are usually heavily shunned
Will Lanni 3 years ago
Thank you I was just thinking this (as I drop mine in a donation box)
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Deborah Barron Brown 3 years ago
That flag is a symbol of the losing side of a race war. Losers.
There’s a myriad of scientific evidence that proves humans are poor judges of their quality of performance and abilities. Well, people believe they are smarter and more capable than they really are and often claim to know a lot when, in fact, they have very little knowledge about the subject.
A 1999 study in which David Dunning and Justin Kruger, psychology professors from Cornell University, showed how people tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities. The researchers asked participants to do four tests to assess their humor, grammar, logic, and then evaluate how well or poorly they thought they did.
The results revealed that most participants overestimated their performance, but the ones that scored in the bottom quarter were much more likely to overvalue themselves. "Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it," the researchers wrote.
#10
Wait Hold Up A Sec
Peppy Piplup 3 years ago (edited)
Ouch. It must sting when someone who you think is on your side tells you that you're an idiot.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Did you mean to write "points out" instead of "tells you"?
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Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
Uh...Vernon, people have been honoring the Death of Christ for literal thousands of years. Didn't George Floyd die two years ago? Much more recent tragedy.
Needmorecowbell 3 years ago
@SBW71 Um, according to the Romans, Christ was a criminal, too.
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kelly erin 3 years ago
Easter? Isn't Easter in recognition of Jesus and God? I mean it's no protest or causing chaos, but I'd argue Easter is acknowledged more than Floyd
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
And Christmas! Even though it might not have started as Jesus-Birthday, it is used as such today.
Load More Replies... SelkieBlackfysh 3 years ago
So yeah, let's not mix politics and religion. Especially racial politics.
LazyPanda 3 years ago
As a follower of Christ, this is insane and disgusting. But sadly not shocking. Reminder: when Peter took out his sword to defend Christ, Peter got in trouble. Christ does not represent butt-hurt and insidious politicians who want to play tit for tat or force belief systems. He regularly called out oppressors and literally rioted inside a SYNAGOGUE. Vernon is the same kind of person who would have hung his so called god. I don't know who his god is. Furthermore, the point of the death of Jesus Christ is that he completed something, and he willfully offered himself. He said as much to Pilate when deciding his sentence. He doesn't need our help for justice. Our brothers and sisters do. Glad that this reverend called him out
Meister Grimbart 3 years ago (edited)
One of them was a real person, the other one properly fictional...
#11
Failed The History Class
Ozacoter 3 years ago
Its because nowadays there are a lot of fake "woke" people who just believe White=Evil. So obviously every war must be caused or fought by us and every other etnic group is inocent of everything. Its sad. All big civilizations did horrible things like colonizing, slaving, murdering and raping. Look at mayans, incas, mongolians, moors... All humans are calable of horrible things. That does not excuse the horrors of colonization but we need to remember this.
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
Its also suspicious that ALL of the Miss Universe winners were humans.
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
India (which at the time included Pakistan and Bangladesh), Algeria and Tunisia, South Africa, and even 'white' countries weren't all white. There were plenty of indigenous people fighting for the ANZACS and the US as well as black people and a significant number of people whose families were actually sitting in American internment camps while they fought.
Anna Lessens 3 years ago
They were under colonization...they had no choice but to care. Why do you think we celebrate those who gave us our freedom FROM colonizers and not those who died FOR colonizers?
Load More Replies... SelkieBlackfysh 3 years ago
Realize, most of the people screaming about white supremacists and white patriarchy are the same people who make these kinds of clueless, uneducated statements. For social justice and virtue signaling and clout.
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
Sorry to say but many non white nations got involved because they were colonies of white nations?
Anna Lessens 3 years ago
The non alighnemt movement was for countries that wanted nothing to do with world wars after the first one
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Riley Quinn 3 years ago
In all fairness, didn't the "white" countries start the problem before it was dragged across the globe??
#12
Know Your Place Trash
Dynein 3 years ago
Mostly it's the fact that his skin tone really is *not* black - though noticeably tanned compared to the other *actually* white people in the photos. Which makes sense, because Egypt isn't the deep of Africa. It borders on the Mediterranean sea and is right next to the Arabian peninsula. Many of its people live in the North, which is about the same latitude as Israel. And Israelis are largely tanned, not black, so why should Egyptians be? This is a geography/science fail. A main predictor of indigenous skin color is latitude, and Africa is *huge* and stretches over 60 latitudes - so Africans *shouldn't* all be black. Which they aren't.
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J. F. 3 years ago
Why do people think all egyptians are black? Throughout history it was a melting pot of all kinds of cultures
Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
Because they kind of were mostly until the Ptolomys arrived. But that was so long ago that being light skinned doesn't indicate that someone isn't "proper Egyptian" or anything. The pharaohs were mostly light skinned so this checks out regardless.
Load More Replies... xolitaire 3 years ago (edited)
Also the cutest mummy ever. And no Imhotep you don't count, sit back down.
D K 3 years ago
I’m first generation American. My parents and all of my relatives are from Egypt, and I was fortunate enough to have traveled there as a kid for my summer breaks. I’ve seen Egyptians range from black skinned to red-headed and fair skinned!
Claire White 3 years ago
Yup, the mummy of Ramses II showed that he was a red head.
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RoseTheMad 3 years ago
Why do people think Egyptians were black.. they were related to Middle Eastern/Levantine people... Sure there may have been plenty of Black people travelled to Egypt from the rest of Africa during the thousands of years Egypt was a great kingdom, but originally.. no. Not to mention later rulers and citizens were also Greek and Roman...
Sean Harrison 3 years ago
Because Egypt is in Africa, and most Americans think that all Africans are Black.
Load More Replies... Allison B 3 years ago
Agreed. If they think he looks white then that's fine it's a personal mistake on their part but they should have looked it up and checked first.
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SelkieBlackfysh 3 years ago
There's still the misconception that Egyptians looked African. There's been studies enough to disprove this and actual Egyptians looked more like good ol Rami.
"The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club," David Dunning told Vox. "People miss that." Our brains tend to hide our blind spots from us. That’s why we often feel more confident about our skills, knowledge, and abilities than we should. And often, we’re completely unaware of our overconfidence.
#13
Facebook Making Memes Unintentionally
François Carré 3 years ago
I grow potatoes in my garden and I swear they're more cultivated than that.
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Parthania Dawson 3 years ago
Well I never saw a potato at school who wasn't a side dish at lunch.
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Amanda Nolting 3 years ago
Except the plague DOES still exist. There are about 2,000 cases reported every year. On average 7 reported in the US every year. And no, there isn't a vaccine for it. But we know what causes it and if you get treatment for the bacterial infection before it develops into plague, it's 100% treatable. Because it's caused by bacteria. Covid is viral. Not the same. People are idiots.
Katherine Heasley 3 years ago
I live in ND, and a doctor here told me that they get cases of the plague every year because people think groundhogs would make great pets. Spoilers, a) they don't, and b) they carry plague.
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Monica Houghton 3 years ago
The plague didn't require a vaccine because it was caused by bacteria. Bacteria are treated with antibiotics. The plague was not a virus. Viruses are prevented with vaccines. Maybe you should listen to a doctor/scientist instead of a politician?
- 3 years ago
Can the next anti-vaxxer explain how to over-ride most people's survival instincts so that the many sacrifice themselves for the sake of the remaining herd? Leaving people unprotected and untreated is sounds like social Darwinism (which was promoted by Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin).
#14
Maybe Rethink That Again...peter
Becky Samuel 3 years ago (edited)
To be fair, it hasn't ended well for *any* of the Haitians. Edit : I guess the downvoters would be happy to give up their current lifestyles to go live like a native Haitian, then.
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Aliquid 3 years ago
Arguing a point as false... doesn't really "make a point", when nobody disagrees with you. Slavery has existed in almost every culture across the planet throughout history. Out of all of history and all of the planet, only the Europeans/Americans of the 17th/18th century decided to identify who is a slave based on their race. All of the other countless instances before and after and elsewhere had nothing to do with race. BUT, if you are an American, and talking about the impact of slavery on American history and current American culture... then slavery IS a race related issue, and the fact that other people in other places and other times did it a different way doesn't really matter.
Load More Replies... J. F. 3 years ago (edited)
To be fair, white people weren't the only ones that owned slaves during history (the first operation of the US Navy was to fight North African pirates/slavers in the mediterran) - in some places there's still slavery
Aliquid 3 years ago
White people aren't inherently evil. Black people aren't inherently victims. It is all a matter of who holds the power and how they want to keep those without power held down. So yes, "to be fair", who holds the "power" is different depending on where and when you are talking about. But for the modern ancestors of slavery in America, the Caribbean and other locations from the "new world"... this technicality doesn't change the fact that they WERE owned by white people, and the history and culture of their communities is based on that foundation.
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Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
"never hear about it" in the UK anyone that's interested has heard of Wilbur Wilberforce. The problem is that too much weight is put on his contribution and not enough on the black people that toured the UK, giving lectures, publishing books, and fighting the fight themselves (slavery never had a legal footing in the UK, which meant it couldn't be enforced)
Katherine Heasley 3 years ago
Why are people never grateful when you stop beating them up? Shouldn't you get some thanks? You didn't have to stop beating them, after all.
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
A friend of mine was just told that racism didn't begin until Obama became president. Not a joke, just an idiot.
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
Abraham Lincoln may have enacted the Emancipation Proclamation, but enslaved people freed themselves. It's not like slavers were just going to stop enslaving because someone told them it was wrong.
Sam 3 years ago
Slavery is still legal as punishment for a crime in the US
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#15
“A Bioweapon Against God”
Britches are for everyone 3 years ago
Tell me you read the Bible, but skipped some of the details without telling me you read the Bible but skipped some of the details.
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Joe Reaves 3 years ago
Look, Christians, if you're going to get pissed off that atheists criticise you without reading the Bible, maybe you guys should try reading it first. (NB I am aware there are many perfectly sane and lovely Christians, but the ones shouting about God are idiots)
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
Can someone from the USA explain how MTG and LB are allowed to spew such nonsense, yet are not held accountable for anything? How does that even work?
Parmeisan 3 years ago
Not just haven't read the bible... have you never encountered, like, a single sick person in your life? Humans did not create cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Rabies, HIV... and if you're going to say that Satan did, then what proof do you have that Satan didn't create Covid too?
ZAPanda 3 years ago
moreover it makes god look a bit impotent if he can't stop satan, right?
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Monday 3 years ago
He did also send that plague that killed all first born egyptian children. A d**k move really since the kids had nothing to do with the slavery situation going on.
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J&B FitzTubeKidz 3 years ago
Political people trying to use the Bible is like blind people trying to use binoculars
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Most people who are racist, homophobic, and anti-science try to justify their horrible actions and views by twisting the text in the Bible. I highly doubt that most these bigots have even read the Bible critically. These are the same type of idiots that believe that their God planted those dinosaur skeletons to test humans when they are questioned about evolution.
Load More Replies... SelkieBlackfysh 3 years ago
Dude growing up my impression of God was poor. I read the bible, listened to the stories. And he came off as a power trippy jerk off. So he knew the snake was there, because he's omniscient. And allowed it all to go down. He basically set humanity up for failure, and still thinks he has any right to judge us for our choices or actions when he thrust us out into a malicious, uncaring world. Then he sent his son down to be tortured and killed to guilt trip humanity. Like seriously. He came off as abusive as my own abusive dad lol.
"The work is about [how] when people don’t get it, they don’t realize they don’t get it," the professor explained that this is a phenomenon that visits all of us sooner or later. "Some of us are a little more flamboyant about it. Some of us aren’t. But not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition. The problem with it is we see it in other people, and we don’t see it in ourselves," he said.
#16
Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions.
J. F. 3 years ago
Honest question: Why is he compared to Hitler but not Stalin? I think Putin's actions have more in common with him than Hitler
Madeleine Flowers 3 years ago
I guess the actions of Hitler are much more known, so they're comparing Putin to somebody everyone immediately recognizes as a horrible person.
Load More Replies... Pamela Blue 3 years ago
I don't understand why they are using Hitler as Putin's "mentor." The much better comparison would be to Stalin. He killed 20 million people over his lifetime, and attacked and claimed many of the postwar iron curtain countries. Putin is just like him and wants to be Stalin all over the again. He wants the "old" Russia back. I don't think Hitler even comes into the picture!
JoeShmoeDeLaKokomoe🇺🇦 3 years ago
I agree, but Hitler is more easily recognized by uneducated audiences
Load More Replies... Steve Fischer 3 years ago
Will some patriotic Russian put a bullet in the head of Pig Putin before he destroys the world?
Zet 3 years ago
COMEDY is the only way for a lot of powerless people to still spread propaganda and to stay sane in times of wars and conflicts. HOW is comedy not helping? it gives power to the powerless and will of living. to the dying.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Exactly. Also, comedy and especially satire is one of hte first things to go when autocrats and dictators take their throne. Unjust authority fears laughter
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On Dinosaurs
mulk 3 years ago (edited)
Now I want a movie with this title! Like Jurrasic World but with templars and holy knights!
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
When you take the OLD Testament literally but won't adhere to the commands of Jesus in the NEW Testament, you are not a Christian. ---- Father H, Jesuit, 1984 or so.
Lingon 3 years ago
I volunteer to surgically remove his or her flesh from his or her skeleton so we can find out.
Ann Coffman 3 years ago
Oooh, I hear there's a beetle that can get the job done in just a few hours!!!
Load More Replies... Ann Coffman 3 years ago
I plant mine in my neighbor's garden, under the peonies. (pretty slick, heh?)
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
This is a good example that no matter how common sense your responses to these nutjobs are, they demand an extreme level of "proof" and whatever proof you provide it they're moving the goalposts or else busy covering their eyes and ears and screaming "LALALALALALALA" to keep the information from reaching their brains. It's a waste of time just as much as they're a waste of oxygen.
Sage Gusano 3 years ago
Coming this summer. A SyFy Channel original movie "Christians against dinosaurs"
#18
Redefining History
De Gueb 3 years ago
Same s**t is taught in Spanish schools about the discovery of America. They natives were so happy to receive the light of the true religion they let them take there gold. The fact a few died because they weren't imune to European diseases.
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Mtownmick 3 years ago
This is despicable. This is like holocaust denying. It doesn't need to be taught in lower school classes but it should never be said that this was what happened. The snowflakes that can't handle the truth shouldn't write the books.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
You doN't have to let the kids know all the details, but telling them "the Natives were chased off the land and they had to leave to go somewhere worse" is very easily understood. Every child understands the injustice of it
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Roadkill The Brave 3 years ago
No, this is a big Nope. I live in an area the trail of tears went through - and its history that needs to be taught not swept under the rug. There's so much the schools don't always teach that they should, and what was taught on the trail of tears when I was growing up wasn't even enough - that was dependent on which school I was in what I learned. I had a very diverse upbringing due to moving around a lot so I got to learn a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have had I stayed in one spot.
GaeFrog 3 years ago
Ikr! Not all textbooks are like this though. I live in America and in school I was taught that they were forced out
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Sam 3 years ago
Hell no. US imperialism is well studied pretty much everywhere but the US and UK
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Jef Bateman 3 years ago
This book is an amazing bit of nonsense, but at least the publisher recalled it. Another gem from the book says that the First Nations people moved to reserves (that's what Canadians call them) to "live undisturbed by the hustle and bustle of the settlers."
ZAPanda 3 years ago
In apartheid South Africa those were called Bantustans and in Palestine it's called Gaza.
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Lynn Morello 3 years ago
I don't ever remember the word Agree being used in forcing the Native American People to be pushed and shoved to where it was convenient for the Whites to take over the country. And YES, I am White and disgusted with my heritage for its murderous ways.
To become a bit more skeptical, modest, and aware of our cognitive blind spots, David Dunning recommends you to ask yourself where you could be wrong if the decision is an important one. "Think that through — it matters. Think about what you don’t know. That is, check your assumptions."
"On a more general level, a lot of the issues or problems we get into, we get into because we’re doing it all by ourselves. We’re relying on ourselves. We’re making decisions as our own island, if you will. And if we consult, chat, schmooze with other people, often we learn things or get different perspectives that can be quite helpful," he explained.
#19
Hmmmm
xolitaire 3 years ago (edited)
When I visited the US in 2018 a group of high school kids found out I was from Germany and asked me if the Berlin Wall was still up and if Hitler was still alive. These are the moments you feel your soul leave your body
Nena Rosebud 3 years ago
As an American, I apologize for my more idiotic countrymen. Es tut mir leid.
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Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
I have American friends, I’m always there to send them best wishes on 4th July or Traitors Day as I prefer to call it here in the U.K. 😀
PitbullmomAF 3 years ago
Lol, I used to reply to my British friends 'happy losers day' 🤪
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René Studer 3 years ago
We do actually. Of course we celebrate the day the Fresh Prince and Ian Malcolm saved us all from Aliens using only a Mac Powerbook.
James Bailey 3 years ago
A good few years ago I was in NYC for the 4th of July (from the UK). I happened to be on a dinner boat trip on the Hudson to watch the fireworks and got chatting with this lovely family from upstate. They asked in all seriousness what we (in the UK) did to celebrate independence day. They had no real idea of what was being celebrated or why, to the extent that they kept asking me more and more questions around those events. Like wide-eyed children they were amazed at those things. To be fair, my knowledge was not encyclopedic on the subject but they wanted to know more. It says a lot about the US education system, or perhaps that if you give people the oppotunity to learn they do.
Parthania Dawson 3 years ago
This is an example of the result of US education. Little is taught about other countries. If it is taught, it's likely the UK and other parts of Western Europe.
Autumn 3 years ago
I mean, we discussed Japan, China, Africa, Russia, India and s few other places but I wouldn’t complain about learning more
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Anyone outside France celebrating Bastille Day? .... Yeah. See, this is why you have to not just pass history, but *learn it*.
Incitatus 3 years ago
Our household does in Ohio. My husband likes it; visiting the bastille was his most disappointing memory of Paris.
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Theo Blackwood 3 years ago
Idk do Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Oh wait, they do and poorly.
#20
Happy Birthday
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Another treasonous American politician. These pieces of garbage need to be expelled to live out their lives in their dream country of Russia.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
OMG, who even... On behalf of my dad (USN).... Who did this. Why. Even I can see it's not ours. OMG.
Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
It WAS a Russian battle cruiser until they ran into a Ukrainian farmer with a tractor 😆
Parthania Dawson 3 years ago
I think they're used to being overlooked. Unsung heroes one and all.
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You're Standing Right In Front Of The Best Example In The Whole World That Proves That Walls Don't Work.
Nadine Bamberger 3 years ago
Not only did it eventually come down and has been considered a cruel historical mistake since they built it, it was only part of what they called the "Todesstreifen", path of death. People were shot at and killed long before they could've climbed the wall. At least 140 have been killed in Berlin alone. It's a symbol of shame not an accomplishment.
xolitaire 3 years ago
Girl. Take it from us Germans. The remaining pieces of the wall are there to remind us that walls do, in fact, NOT work. Please get off the internet.
Lingon 3 years ago
At the same time in USA, former slave plantations are hosting weddings.
Load More Replies... Ally MacMann 3 years ago (edited)
That HAS to be satire, right? I live in Berlin and walking around here you are often surrounded in history, some of it fairly recent and much of it very dark. You'd basically have to close your eyes not to see it.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
I really wish I could say it is satire but it really seems alot of us Americans really don't read about or know much world history.
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
This horrible woman needs to move to Russia and live under Putin's rule...it is, after all, what she really seems to want more than anything.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
This horrible woman would probably be the one following Putin and following him blindly. She is nothing more than a close-minded bigot.
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Pablo Ramos 3 years ago
They actually don't work. The Berlin wall require the small assistance of machine gun emplacents.
Monday 3 years ago
I dunno man, my walls work perfectly fine. Of course their only function is to keep the building standing but still...they're working.
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Izzy Curer 3 years ago
I'm just going to assume she means it in an architectural sense so that I can pretend people like this don't exist
Steve Fischer 3 years ago
Pig Putin, like Pig Trump, are trying their best to put new walls up. Put them both in jail!!!
#22
Numbrs... I Don't Know What I Say...
Sam 3 years ago
He also thought there were airplanes during the revolutionary war. Its clear his daddy bought his degrees
QibliOfTheSandWings 3 years ago (edited)
He’s just a spoiled brat with a lot of money he doesn’t deserve
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
Sometimes I wonder how such a moronic conman got elected president, but then I remember about half the US population are easily conned morons.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
just look at a bell curve of IQ. a full 50% of the population are below average. And we know what they vote.
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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago
We could fill endless rows of books with Trump's stupidities during his presidency. You couldn't fill one sheet of paper with Trump's positive achievements during his presidency.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
This is the same orange Muppet that told people that injecting bleach into their veins to cure Covid-19 had not horrible side affects.
MCMLXXIII 3 years ago
Very true but please don't bring the Muppets into it. He's more of an orange fat head piñata
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#23
She Forgot A Very Important Bit Of Information
K- THULU 3 years ago
When a woman has a thought ...burn her! That woman has a cat...burn her! That woman looked at me funny .. Burn her! She's a woman... Burn her! But jesus loves u !
shuka shuka 3 years ago
Most women accused of being witches in the USA were landowners. And land meant power. It was all about men trying to keep power away from women.
Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago
Actually the point was that the first person seemed to overlook that Jesus ( a male) was also tortured to death for performing "miracles", not unlike the females accused of being "witches". Try to focus.
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UncleRussian 3 years ago
I mean... I am not saying that she's right, Jesus did die, he died however more so because of political reasons. Simply put he pissed off the wrong people, the priests in the Temple in Jerusalem and unfortunately for Jesus they had a good connection with the Romans
Twodogsandapicnictable 3 years ago (edited)
Ok, but wasn't the "political reason" that he was such a threat to authority largley based upon his followers believing that he could perform "miracles"?
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K- THULU 3 years ago
OK my original response was a cynical jab at the church for centuries of denigrating women by any means possible. The unholy truth of all so called witch trials is that it had nothing to do with witches. It was the lame ass quest for rooting out what they saw as satanists in their midst. It had more in common with macarthyist hysteria about communism or post 9/ 11 islamic terrorism than it was about witchcraft. The thousands of innocent women who were victims of small scale persecution were collateral damage of a greater hysteria. The truth is that very few actual witches were persecuted was that we were too fkn smart for the feeble minded clergy. The old religion endured because it was hiding in plain sight , as tradition, folk tales and superstition. You just have to look at ancient parish churches in the UK. They are filled with images of the pagan past , the green man, chapels to the virgin mary built on ancient goddess sites. The very fact that the madonna is so revered in ireland reflects the pre christian matriarchal religion.My flippant reference to burning wiches was more to do with a pop culture reference than historical fact. The point being made was more of a feminist diatribe againt patriarchal, mysogonist b******t than anything else. I certainly didn't expect the spanish inquisition, but who does? ( joke )
#24
Big Brain Time
#25
Picasso Was Alive When Snoop Dogg Was Born.
Roadkill The Brave 3 years ago
Back when I was in high-school this was the ultimate 'omg that blew my mind' moment for a lot of people. The only reason I knew about it before then was my mom's ex was into art and she adored Picasso and Dali. Dali died in '89 I think.
H Edwards 3 years ago
Wow, '89, that's wild. I never knew I was alive for any of Dali's life, let alone nearly a decade!
Load More Replies... Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
His daughter, Paloma Picasso, is a fashion designer and businesswoman, currently in her early 70s.
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
I mean one of his most famous paintings deals with an air raid on a civilian population, did they think they came from the same place as Trump's revolutionary war airports?
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
To be fair, there is no literal portrayal of an air raid in "Guernica". You have to know the back story in order to understand the chaos of this piece.
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Pearl 3 years ago
why would you think that? 200 years ago, the popular art style was realism. If you've ever seen just one work of Picasso, you would know his art style is much more modern and abstract, which wasn't popular in the 19th century!
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Gionanna 3 years ago
I'm honestly curious about what makes people instinctively think Picasso was alive several centuries ago. I mean, even though one doesn't know about him as a person but only the painting style... It's very different from 1500s artists I guess?
Beans 3 years ago
I find it weird also to be honest. It makes sense that younger people don't have a sense for when things happened or when famous figures were alive but his style is so crazy contemporary that I'm not sure how you can ever think he was painting abstract in the 1500s when Shakespeare was rolling around.
Load More Replies... Mokayokok 3 years ago
Wait, WHAT??? Seriously? I thought it was in the 1500's too ... Jesus, I'm a f*****g moron!
Beans 3 years ago (edited)
I can understand being young and maybe not knowing art decades, and maybe thinking he was older than he was and getting them confused, but to put it in perspective, the 1500s were the *middle ages*. Life was bad. Especially for poor people. Art was not very sophisticated, most of it was religious. As a comparison, all the 'great' artists of the Renaissance were in their infancy back then, like Michelangelo and Rafael, the Renaissance came later. Art like Picasso had no place back then, his art is very modern. Same with Van Gogh-- he is only about 130 years ago-- he was alive in the time of the US wild west. You're not a moron but it is worth getting a grasp of various centuries of history and famous figures in those times. History is crazy and fascinating.
Load More Replies... Naesil 3 years ago
Lot of significant people from that era feel like they were way in the past for us who did born after they died, like Tesla, Einstein, even later like mentioned Picasso, Dali etc. world has been advancing so fast that their achievements feel older than less than one life time ago.
#26
Someone Skipped 5th Grade History
J. F. 3 years ago
They found ancient roman vases in South America and American plants in ancient egypt graves. Even claiming Vikings were first is quite wrong
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
Why cant white people accept that non-white people didn't *need them* to do great thigns!
Jasper Cool 3 years ago
I can only speak about white people in the U.S. But our school history books are full of inaccuracies about Indigenous culture and civilization in the Americas. Then you have that manifest destiny/religious ideology of Christian white people being given dominion over the land that propagated expansion further west. How do you justify murdering and stealing land unless you can pretend to be superior. And then there's US ideology of "democracy" and capitalism which is how excuses got made to subjugate or exploit. Our world history classes rarely if ever covered Asian or African history. In my state it is required at the high school and college level to take classes about Native culture or history and it's becoming more common to have Native instructors and textbooks. My kid's school district has pretty forward thinking education goals but we talk a ton at home about the beauty and accomplishments of different civilizations and the unvarnished truth regarding colonialism.
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Andy Frobig 3 years ago
I read an article today about a cave in northern Yukon that has evidence of human occupation 24,000 years ago. Even without this, the date of humans racing the Americas has been pushed back well before 15,000 years ago.
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
Then there is this evidence of Africans making it to the "New" World before Columbus or the Vikings. https://www.lahc.edu/studentservices/aso/bsu/knowyourhistory/10PiecesofEvidenceThatProve.pdf
Jo Iverson 3 years ago
Sh*t almost every civilization was in the US before Columbus. They don't acknowledge it in case someone else wants to lay claim to us.
#27
1917
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
Maybe they thought the movie was about one thousand nine hundred and seventeen soldiers.
Ozymandias73 3 years ago (edited)
Like asking who's buried in Grant's tomb. Or when was the war of 1812?
TheTopTenz 37 3 years ago
It actually is very misleading. This movie takes place in the year 1492 AD
Bob Standen 3 years ago
I sat, really? How about I was sitting? They were taught that in 1917.
Brandon Jones 3 years ago
Cannot understand this widespread British trend toward the misapplication of verb forms. You highlighted a good example of this unfortunate fad -- which is evolving in the land of Shakespeare, no less. "I was sat..." once meant somebody led you to a chair and "sat" you down.
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Absolute Genius
Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
It is normal for students in Slovakia to visit Auschwitz around the age of 16 to see the brutal history of WWII with their own eyes. It's haunting. 17 years passed and I still remember the rings, shoes, hair, luggage, but most of all the eyes in the photos.
Aroha 3 years ago
Guess what else is bad for your mental health? Actual war. We should never forget! Also, my cousin is also 22 and our grandparents fought in WWII. It was NOT that long ago!
Dynein 3 years ago
Uh... my cousin is also around that age and our grandparents were *children* during WWII. For most young adults, it would be the great-grandparents who fought in the war. Which isn't that long ago, either, but long-enough to not have anyone in the living part of family who has any detailed memories of the war.
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Ozacoter 3 years ago
Indeed. In spain we dont learn about ww1-2 and our civil war/dictature until we are 16yo. By then many are already convinced fascists that believe the idiocies of the extreme right wing. Kids need to learn about those things when they start middle school, in a age appropriate manner.
Load More Replies... Lynn Morello 3 years ago
It is bad for anyone's mental health to whitewash the history of what had happened and the death toll it wrought on the World.
Anthony Martinez 3 years ago
Its bad to even acknowledge a damn kid on Instagram!
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Marilyn Ransberry 3 years ago
I wonder what learning about climate change would do? Better just to ignore it and experience it I guess.
#29
The Image They Don’t Want You To See
Jonathan Mcnicke 3 years ago
Most excellent post of the day, thanks for making me laugh.
Load More Replies... Sage Gusano 3 years ago
that's an alien surveillance tower with a malfunctioning cloaking device.
Paul Davis 3 years ago
Someone so young and ignorant they don't know what telephone landline towers look like and that they were being built for 30 years before the photo.
#30
This Is Why The World Has Been Doomed…
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
Yeah the white blond-haired Mary of Israel. Very accurate portrait, though. *Facepalm*
Aroha 3 years ago (edited)
It's amazing how these people forget that Jesus and Mary literally were Middle Eastern, non-Christian refugees...
Not Proud British 3 years ago
Yeah cause a Jewish woman from Israel had pale white skin, blue eyes and blond hair....
lgbt_squid.12 3 years ago
like said above. say you havent read the bible without saying you havent read the bible.
SoozeeQ 3 years ago
I think somebody's been reading too many Dan Brown novels.
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Shelby Jackson 3 years ago
For the love of all that is holy PLEASE do not compare that nitwit to Mary. Wrong EVERYTHING.
#31
In My Defence I Never Did History (Double Facepalm)
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
We just need another sick megalomaniac prick with a good old nuclear weapon. And there's a bunch of them all over the world.
Austin Hicks 3 years ago
In their defense, they wouldn't have understood anything in a history class anyway. You can't fix that kind of stupid.
Peppy Piplup 3 years ago
Oh no, I assumed that this was about the current conflict, then I checked the date and it's early 2020.
Andrei Marentette 3 years ago
B*tch just because hitler is dead doesnt mean that ww3 cant happen
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
How does someone never do history in school? I get only doing certain events, as relate to your country as there is limited time, but none at all?
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
Also posted 2 years ago. I really hope this person has been educated by now.
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"R/Facepalm" Can't Even Read The Url
Markus Holstein 3 years ago
Don't know that particular site, but Alternative History is a literature genre, so there is still some hope that whoever wrote this merely tried to be entertaining
Load More Replies... Lynn Morello 3 years ago
The Early Settlers wanted to get away from the Monarchy (kings and Queens). That is why the USA has Presidential Elections.
Fred L. 3 years ago
Yep, there was AC III: The Tyranny of King Washington.
Load More Replies... UncleRussian 3 years ago
The US did have an Emperor though. RIP your majesty Joshua Abraham Norton the Emperor of the United States
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Tik Tok Is A Gold Mine
Thorfin Wolfsbane 3 years ago
Imagine the look on the ancient Sumerians faces over 6000 years ago when the earth was created underneath their feet /s
Zozo🤟 3 years ago
In his defense, I am a young earth creationist and I believe that the earth was created just over 6000 years ago. Please be kind, I’m just explaining a possibility of why he thinks that.
ZAPanda 3 years ago (edited)
You're not explaining a possibility. You are stating a belief. There's a very big difference. Rocks are dated using uranium-thorium decay rates. It's a trivially easy calculation. Here's a link - https://isobarscience.com/u-th_dating. It's quite short. Please read it before coming back. I also have not downvoted you as punishment because It seems to me like you might be willing to learn something.
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This Girl’s Presentation At My Local University
Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
Because this was probably the assignment for some debate class, where people are taught to defend opposing viewpoints to learn the art of debating.
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Emma Brown 3 years ago
I know it's not the same line but when I was doing my med degree, they split us 50/50 to debate abortion. I'm very pro choice but they selected me as the anti abortion debate. It's very hard to go against your own moral compass.
TyrantrumGogoat 3 years ago
What! "Sometimes beaten ". "Little to no freedom"? They had no freedom at all!
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
And that's a pro! Look most of them were fed what more do you want?
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An Unpopular Opinion. 3 years ago
They each have four points, I see what you mean though
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Someone Wasn’t Paying Attention In History Class...
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
A bottle to a twofer of Moosehead this goof thinks tRump won big in 2020.
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#36
I Love The State Of Canada
Stalin's Moustache 3 years ago
as a Canadian, America is actually a province with 50 districts, not states.
Sam 3 years ago
I feel like this isn't wrong. Many people outside of the United States consider America to mean the two continents named America.
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
America and the United States aren't the same thing. Sometimes we say America instead of US but never the opposite.
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#37
Time To Hate White People For (Checks Notes) Walking In The Rain?
pebs 3 years ago
This is very racist and inaccurate, given that also non white people spend time slaughering each others since the beginning of the human race.
J. F. 3 years ago
Sure, because there was never any blood shed in any other culture... do we want to look back at the last 3 decades in Africa?
xolitaire 3 years ago
Humans are not made of sugar Lor. Walking in the rain does not hurt you.
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
Straight hair. I don't give a damn of water on my hair. I have a friend with curly hair and for her, rain is lava!
I Just Changed My Name 3 years ago
Or when we blow our curly hair out and humidity rears it's ugly head, it was all for nothing.
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Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
😂 this was funny though, I also enjoy the ‘white people raided the world for spices they never use’ meme
Random Panda 3 years ago
Which is only true for some western European countries. There are a lot of "white" cultures who use plenty of spices.
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History Professor Has A Very Rosy View Of The Hunter-Gatherer Life
Demi Zwaan 3 years ago
Too be fair, he is right. Agriculture wasn't good for our health, work, equality or the environment. I'm not saying being a hunter-gatherer was nice, but agriculture wasn't all that good either.
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
Extensive agriculture isn't good. Permaculture or a reasonable model based on seasons and environment would be good, though.
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Random Anon 3 years ago
Sorry, this is plainly idealistic thinking for a professor no less. it's not just about the academics of things. The practicality is a huge factor. Do you feed your neighbor if they are short in winter? Do you stockpile goods? Do you trade for items not available in your environment? If you answered yes to all of that, then it means you need to organize. When you organize, there will be a hierarchy, delegation of tasks and decision making mechanics. So where does that take us?
Markus Holstein 3 years ago
Average life expectancy of <40 years, newborn and infant mortality of ~1/3, if you are born with any kind of defect (including bad eyesight) you are pretty much f*cked - oh, and your only form of entertainment is sitting by the fire and listening to grampa telling stories.
An Co 3 years ago (edited)
Hunter Gathers is a wonderful lifestyle, too bad it only supports 1 person for every 22 acres in GOOD land. Cannot do it at all in a desert, and you need a lot more in less fertile areas. Modern farming needs about 1/2 an acre for a vegetarian diet and can be created any area that has enough water. 2 acres per person if you want some meat. Going back to 'hunter gatherer' means killing 90% of the population, minimum.
similarly 3 years ago
Two points I want to offer: 1. If you want to be a hunter-gatherer society, you have to be prepared for a high infant mortality. It's a trade. 2. There's a common misconception based on a VERY flawed "experiment" (and I use the word loosely) that hunter gatherers only worked 20 hours a week to provide all their basic needs. The "anthropologist" who formed this "conclusion" did so after a very well-equipped camping trip that was half a step above having a picnic. One has only to study currently living hunter-gatherer groups to see that they basically spend every waking moment trying to get food, make stuff and repair stuff that's worn out. We really don't want to be hunter gatherers for a mind-staggering number of reasons.
Aliquid 3 years ago
There is very strong evidence that hunter-gatherers lived a healthier life than the original people to start agriculture. Looking at bones, the early farmers were shorter and sicker than the foragers, and this remained the case for thousands of years.
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Wistiti 3 years ago
I think that agriculture was needed for humans to advance. Industrialized agriculture is our death, on the other hand.
Beans 3 years ago
This is it exactly. Industrialized agriculture and processed foods are bad. People talk about the decline of health in the neolithic period after agriculture. No sh1t. Farming was hard y'all, it was brutal on the body and would be for years. Running around eating meat and bones (which keeps teeth healthy such as in carnivores) was of course great for the body. Eating mushy cooked stuff and grains gave us bacteria and changed our teeth, which is a normal byproduct of evolving diets. As we evolved to not physically farm ourselves, our health improved in that way, etc. As we lead sedentary lifestyles and eat processed foods our health declines. But to say that hunter gathering was way better because there was no pollution and our bones were tougher is like saying because disinfectants can create resistant superbugs then we should stop hygiene and let everyone get sick. It's nuts and I'm amazed at the amount of people that are drinking the cool aid.
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Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
I love how currently under your post is one of those spam post. It's just proving your point.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
This stuff reminds me of a person who recently claimed that dinosaur fossils exist because Earth was created by God around 6000 years ago from *pieces of other earths that did have dinosaurs milions of years ago*. How they can function remains a medical mystery. That's too much "WTF" to be survived.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
Look TBH jellyfish don't have brains and they survive.
Load More Replies... Random Anon 3 years ago (edited)
This is what happens when education becomes politicized, turned into some propaganda tool and used as a commodity for profit.
Damon Tripodi 3 years ago
You know, while fun, the fake ones are just annoying, especially if people think some of these are real
Faith Hurst-Bilinski 3 years ago
Learning is really mentally straining. I know. Teachers are so abusive for making you think serious thoughts.
Leslie Burleson 3 years ago
Ugh, more stirring up dumb people into fighting online and possibly carrying the behavior into real life with real life consequences. Can we not ?
Ronnie Beaton 3 years ago
The ignorance of people about history - not just of their own country, but of history *in general* - is pretty much the sole reason I can't watch TV quiz shows any more. I just wind up shouting abuse at my TV and throwing things at it.
Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
I love how currently under your post is one of those spam post. It's just proving your point.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
This stuff reminds me of a person who recently claimed that dinosaur fossils exist because Earth was created by God around 6000 years ago from *pieces of other earths that did have dinosaurs milions of years ago*. How they can function remains a medical mystery. That's too much "WTF" to be survived.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
Look TBH jellyfish don't have brains and they survive.
Load More Replies... Random Anon 3 years ago (edited)
This is what happens when education becomes politicized, turned into some propaganda tool and used as a commodity for profit.
Damon Tripodi 3 years ago
You know, while fun, the fake ones are just annoying, especially if people think some of these are real
Faith Hurst-Bilinski 3 years ago
Learning is really mentally straining. I know. Teachers are so abusive for making you think serious thoughts.
Leslie Burleson 3 years ago
Ugh, more stirring up dumb people into fighting online and possibly carrying the behavior into real life with real life consequences. Can we not ?
Ronnie Beaton 3 years ago
The ignorance of people about history - not just of their own country, but of history *in general* - is pretty much the sole reason I can't watch TV quiz shows any more. I just wind up shouting abuse at my TV and throwing things at it.
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