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   Deniz Opal (selzero@syzito.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 21:08:16 JST Deniz Opal

   Emboldened by recent political events openly racist people are everywhere on social media.

   Revisionist history white washing the past.

   So I indulge them, "wow that's amazing, tell me more about how all advances in Civilisation belong to white people".

   And they start "Well back 200,000 years ago..."

   "Oohh I'm going to have to stop you right there mate. Did you say 200,000? I would like you to explain how all Civilisation comes from white people, without the use of Arabic numerals please."

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     MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 (fkamiah17@syzito.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 21:15:42 JST MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

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     @selzero Careful now - zero is an Indian numeral 😉

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     Deniz Opal (selzero@syzito.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 21:44:45 JST Deniz Opal

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     • Arthur van der Harg

     @ArtHarg

     You know that.

     I know that.

     But these idiots think Irish people were crafting boats landing in the Americas.

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     Arthur van der Harg (artharg@mastodon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 21:44:47 JST Arthur van der Harg

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     @selzero If they start with white people 200,000 years ago, you can stop them right there. There were no white-skinned humans 200,000 years ago.

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     Deniz Opal (selzero@syzito.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 21:57:29 JST Deniz Opal

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     • Arthur van der Harg

     @ArtHarg no they think it happened before the native Americans arrived and use it as a racist claim to the continent.

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     Arthur van der Harg (artharg@mastodon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 21:57:31 JST Arthur van der Harg

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     @selzero Saint Brendan? Well, at one point we thought that the stories of Vikings going to the Americas were myths too. But it is quite unlikely that Brendan would have been able to cross the Atlantic in a curragh.