• Lester_Peterson [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Very silly map with a deeply Eurocentric data set. Looking at this would put you under the impression that there has never been any conflicts in the Pacific Northwest, Congo Basin, or Eurasian Steppe. Notions that are absurdly incorrect and (in their own way) reinforce the chauvinistic idea that History did not exist in almost all of the world until white people arrived.

    • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah this is just "history is what white people have in their searchable libraries".

    • VeganTendies [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      That's the beauty of it. It makes people think as the mainstream wants to rush to the defense of whites.

      Sure, this is short, quippy, and wrong. But it gets people explaining. People love to make "muh 13/50" comments all the time, and when we try to give a detailed explanation, they are already too convinced they're right to listen.

      Now, they're the ones doing the explaining. Because they can either accept the surface level argument which is "white people are in no position to call people criminals" or "history is complicated and data can be misleading."