the ideology invented in a 1968 berkeley faculty lounge didn’t retroactively apply to the rest of mankind shocker. no one could have predicted this

@IterIntellectus who could have guessed that privileged radicals in a berkeley lounge with no life experience might have guessed blindly about human nature without any supporting evidence and turned out to be wrong about everything?

My father, annoyingly a boomer shitlib, knows quite a bit of history about America, from the Indians through the civil war. 1 day I brought up how the natives didn’t give a shit about borders and slaughtered each other constantly and he looked at me with a straight face and said “some didn’t.” I asked him to name them, knowing he could, and boy was that a small list by comparison. Everyone knows this and yet a certain side pretends it isn’t the case

@IterIntellectus It’s hilarious that “intellectuals” will try to overlay modern morality onto early man. You’d think the discovery of Ötzi the Iceman with arrowheads stuck in him would have made them recalculate.

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@IterIntellectus to be fair too - they killed off the one faction of the anth and soc dept who did call this -- the structuralists all got labeled sexists, racists, and generally evil colonialists because they did call this.

The only shocking thing is that some intelligent people, even for a brief moment, apparently believed that the evolutionary path of Homo sapiens was a peaceful one. Imagine discovering vast amounts of weaponry in almost every culture and every epoch, only to ignore that they were also used.

@IterIntellectus lol - did he share any thoughts on how the process is accelerated when the native govt actually encourages invasion/IMPORTS its own replacement population?

@IterIntellectus The "Noble Savage" myth was popularized in 98 AD by the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus. You are showing a serious lack of historical framing and perspective here to even think 1968 Berkley thought this idea up vs dusted it off from the waste bin is absurd naivety.

@IterIntellectus Mfw I go to any leftist city these days

@IterIntellectus @timurkuran On the cost of indigeneity cambridge.org/core/journals/…

@IterIntellectus Scalping is a beloved cultural tradition that should not be diminished.