Chapotraphouse

idk how to explain it but the fact that people like kkkarl aren't all that rare in burgerland anymore feels like a stronger indicator of the empire dying than even the material stuff like central banks dumping their USD reserves

i know racism has always been around but these latest iterations seem more "desperate" than in the past; it used to be "we're better than those people at things like medicine and rocket science" but now it's like, only white people are blessed enough to do checks notes astronomy, the oldest branch of science that pretty much everyone all over the world has been doing for centuries if not longer? what next, only white people are smart enough to build structures from wood and stone? lol

My guess is he is assuming it was cut with a metal blade, which came from white people.

I feel confused. Because it is a beautiful artifact of cultural heritage. But it's also not very round.

(Like you can make really round things with simple tools by using string and making the circumference of a circle)

Fun fact, nobody knew things could be round until George Washington invented the wheel in 1996.

This is such a pathetic own. Like, let's assume they used tools from colonists to cut the map, so what? It's basically a decorative element here, and the substance of it being executed solely by indigenous people remains uncontested.

My hypothesis: this might have something to do with the idea that Proto-Indo-Europeans invented the wheel*. The wheel was only invented once** so therefore “white people invented the wheel” is something believed by fascists. Wheel = round so this guy is somehow extending that to “white people invented round things.”

That or as someone said below he believes native Americans couldn’t cut things before Europeans showed up? but I somehow find that even more sad and absurd than my above hypothesis that I can’t even believe that.

*which I believe there is some debate about, but western Ukraine is one strong candidate for invention of the wheel, and one which white people will obviously grab on to.

**once in the “old world” and once in the “new world” but in the americas it was only ever used for toys and there’s no evidence of wheeled vehicles.