#isamophobia's genesis

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Can I get Europeans to stop saying Gutenberg invented things he didn't invent?

Printing Press X

China, first millennium A.D. The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist book from Dunhuang, China from around 868

Movable Type X

That was Chinese in 1140 by Bi Sheng (990-1051 AD). He used clay for printing. Wang Zhen made wooden movable type, around 1297.

Metal Movable type X

That was Koreans, 13th century Goryeo. Jikji is the first book to be printed with metal movable type.

Credit is given to Choe Yun Ui

Adjustable Type Mould, Ding, ding. Correct √

And you might be saying Adjustabe type Mould! Yes! Cool ass invention.

So you might be wondering... so why don't all those other men get credit? It goes like this: After Catholic Spain took over Islamic part of Spain, i.e. Al Andalus, they tried to purge all mention of Islamic influences on the continent, which included any innovations that Islamic peoples made. This incuded maths sciences and arts. This kinda half failed since you still have Gothic churches with pointed windows. But basically the idea was to purge any credit given to Islamic people.

According to the first article the people that brought the idea to Europe were Uighurs, Chinese Islamic Peoples via the silk road. So there would be high motivation to purge any credit to other people during that time period, thus censure.

Thus Gutenberg mysteriously invented it on his own they say out of thin air using Chinese invented paper. OMG. You mean the added cloth fibers that made paper strong enough to withstand printing mysteriously appeared in Europe and then people were suddenly cut off from China? Ya gotta be kidding me.

To me, this is like saying Europeans invented boats. Independently invented writing. And were unaffected by Mongols invading. Ya know, the White revisionist history that says Europe never traded and mysteriously invented Science and ALgebra [algebra an Arabic word? Al gebra]. (But it was the Greeks that invented Maths) Babylonians. *sighs* I went over what Europe actually invented independently of the world already.

You should see Europeans lose their crap every time I edit the page on Gutenberg to fact check them. But the adjustable type mould is boring~~ I don't think fonts are boring at all. They help people with disabilities read better. Why do you think it's boring?