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menlove · 1 year ago

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being a ✨historian✨ on the internet is hearing the worst most god awful fucking takes you have ever seen by ppl that have never actually studied history beyond youtube videos and tiktoks and maybe some trending half fiction half conspiracy book and just want to say smth they think is like earth shattering and edgy but is really just completely ahistorical and vaguely offensive but you can't even say anything bc you will get called an elitist and you kind of just

#oh my god I am tired I'm tired if I have to hear one more person talk out their ass about history or religion I'm gonna lose it #on today's takes I've heard:#the us is actually comparable to africa bc africa is only suffering bc their governments hate them #(completely ignoring how vastly different each political climate and history is of each African country #as well as how undeniably responsible Europe and esp England is for the bullshit in Africa)#and now the take that Actually before europe every single other country on earth was peaceful and a fucking fairy land utopia #but Europeans have generational trauma that make them evil and mean and inhuman as compared to everyone else #which is just. I don't even know where to begin there.#Europe has done irreparable harm w colonization yes absolutely #but to say that every non European country had never experienced violence is also racist bc it's denying the autonomy of entire peoples #and their very real and important histories and contexts #just to give the dogshit fake edgy bullshit take that Europeans invented violence bc they're not actually human

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