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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 91 points 1 month ago

World history without the Arabs, Mongols, Ottomans, imperial Japan? Even from an eurocentristic point of view that's too reductive.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

“Damned Humans, they ruined Humanity!”

[-] Zorsith 9 points 1 month ago

"Damned Golgafrinchans, they ruined earth!"

[-] mienshao@lemm.ee 35 points 1 month ago

Seriously. Tell me you’re a white american without telling me you’re a white american 🤣

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago
[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Interestingly eurocentrists often refer to Alexander the Great as taking over "the world" even though he only took over Europe and the Middle East (which is what they saw as "the world" at the time). His troops abandoned him almost immediately upon entering what is now modern day Punjab (Pakistan/India).

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

He didn't even take over much of Europe (just Greece), so that's a weird stance for modern-day eurocentrists, anyway.

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Well, modern day eurocentrists are weird people.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 47 points 1 month ago

Ghengas Khan, the whitest man in history

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Well of course, they wouldn't have picked John Wayne to play him otherwise.

[-] chuymatt@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Kahn of the radiation desert.

[-] carotte 11 points 1 month ago

i mean, world history as of ~500-600 years ago, but yea

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Man, Hutus and Tutsis are going to freak out with this one haha

Also Indians

[-] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Hutus and Tutsis

Look up who introduced those identities

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Half of Disney movies are about kids going against this very parental advice, getting said parents robbed/hurt/killed, and getting rewarded in the process

[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Wait, if Aztecs thought white people are gods (unless it's a "Television would never lie" moment), do we have records of how they treated albinos born in their countries?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Aztecs did not view the white men as gods. Depictions of Quetzalcoatl that make him look like a white man/the claim that they confused Cortes for him is pseudohistory based on Spanish depictions and lies.

Here’s an interesting thing I found on ancient Mexican albinism.

[-] shawn1122@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Glad you have a resource to refute this colonial era drivel / brain rot.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It’s something that Frank Dibble talked about in the Rogan debate. (The entire situation was a shitshow, but I learned a lot from listening to him dribble Hancock around like a basketball, and Professor Dave/Miniminutemen’s coverage of it)

Aztec and Mayan history tends to attract a lot of bullshit (and tend to be treated as interchangeable 😔). The Spaniards burned so much of pre Colombian primary texts that most information is filtered through people who wanted to portray those people as stupid primitive murderous psychopaths to justify their own primitive murderous psychopathy.

[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ooh, nice find!

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

The veneration was severely overblown. They heeded them as gods in the same way that I heeded my abusive father as a god. And albinos probably just kinda died to the Central American UV. They might have been perceived as cursed.

[-] spacesatan@leminal.space 5 points 1 month ago

Turns out you can't simplify world history to one sentence without people getting big mad.

[-] sith@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Everyone knows the Comanches were nothing but peace loving kindness and happy joy.

[-] Owlboi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

they sound american

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