This is the danger of only learning Eurocentric history

@vanessajaye Wow, some bloated academic wants me to throw away all of my culture because someone else also had "Culture" before we did thereby nullifying Beowulf and everything else. Who went to the fucking moon? Who invented Airplanes? Flush Toilets & Plumbing? Yeah. STFU. Eat dirt cookies.

@GreatGoban @vanessajaye The earliest plumbing systems come from Mesopotamia (4,000 BCE) and the Indus Valley (2600 BCE) and in ancient Egypt (2500 BCE) & who’s asking you to throw away your culture? Unless your culture is based on minimizing innovations that don’t come from your culture..

@straycomrade @GreatGoban @vanessajaye 4000 year head start and still outdone by Europeans.

@HandsofScars @GreatGoban @vanessajaye Outdone? Wasn’t that long ago Notre Dame burned.

@straycomrade @GreatGoban @vanessajaye It wasn't that long ago that Africans ripped up all the infrastructure that Europeans built because they can't build or maintain it themselves. Middle Eastern countries to this day rely on the engineering and management of Europeans in order to function at a modern scale.

@HandsofScars @GreatGoban @vanessajaye Y’all always expect the people you colonize to feel some perverse form of gratitude as if you do it for them. It speaks of selfishness and conceit.

@straycomrade @GreatGoban @vanessajaye Having manners and being grateful definitely is a European trait.

@HandsofScars @GreatGoban @vanessajaye Y’all are bragging about subjugating people and then are somehow still confused when they aren’t grateful to you. And that arrogance is why the world will leave yall behind as you obsess over your declining birth rates.

@straycomrade @GreatGoban @vanessajaye Leave us behind? The middle east and Africa are still in the stone age when Europeans aren't involved.

@HandsofScars @GreatGoban @vanessajaye Demonstrably not true. African countries are winning their independence from European colonizers and taking back control of their resources.

@straycomrade @GreatGoban @vanessajaye Is south Africa thriving? No. What about Zimbabwe, also no. Somalia? Congo? Liberia? And many African countries have invited the Chinese is because they can't develop the resources themselves. This is the second time you've moved the goalpost to try and win, I don't think you

@straycomrade @GreatGoban @vanessajaye are smart enough for these kinds of conversations.