Only Africa gets treated like it's one country
Also, Egypt had wheels, fuckin worthless nerd.
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You ought not to judge a book by its cover. This video talks about that, and its main thrust is making the case not to dehumanize or push white supremacist views of African societies as being technologically or intellectually inferior because of a practical difference in how they transported goods. He is anticolonial and opposed to the racist mindset here
Wait, are you saying a racist might be ignorant about history or anthropology?
is he a known racist? i kinda assumed just from this screenshot but otherwise i dont know who this is.
I am guessing the guy in the screenshot might not be, but the title about how Africa didn't have the wheel until colonization made me think whoever made the video is a racist.
Its a bad title but he does specify in the video that hes talking about subsaharan africa
He also talks about how the lack of adoption of the wheel is not out of some technological inferiority but simply because they had other more useful forms of transport instead of wheeled carts that are more suited to the local environment
"Why did Africa not have wheels"?
Meanwhile, in every cell of every person in Africa:
That's a flagella from bacteria
what am i looking at here?
A bacteria flagella.
Pretty sure this is a certain part of a cell that processes protein. I forget the exact details
No it isnt. You're thinking of the endoplasmatic reticulum, and that image is not that.
endoplasmatic reticulum?
Damn near killed 'em!
i dunno this is really stretching my ability to suspend disbelief
...Europeans are human beings.
no sorry, pretty much every colonized people has the term "white devil" in their own language for a reason
Well thats just not even remotely true.
For one thing, the concept of the devil in the first place belongs primarily to christian colonizer culture. Indigenous languages cant have a term for the Abrahamic devil when such a thing doesnt exist in the culture in the first place.
Languages that do have some all encompassing term for white colonizers usually involve concepts that would be more like “ghosts” or “spirits”, such as the Australian Aboriginal term ngabaya. In many contexts its just entirely devoid of a relation to cosmology, such as the Klamath phrase Balbal'i shishókish, translating roughly to "white enemy".
The closest that most any indigenous cosmology gets to the concept of the devil are ideas of trickster figures, and those figures really bear zero relation to the actual abrahamic devil in terms of being purely evil. For example, in many North American indigenous cosmologies there are animal figures like the coyote or the spider that are often malevolent tricksters in oral tradition. It doesnt mean that coyotes or spiders are inherently evil, or that tricksters are even inherently evil. If anything calling white people some culturally relevant equivalent of tricksters was just stating plain facts in terms of colonizers being untrustworthy and scheming.
Your statement is effectively overriding the actual differences between an entire planet worth of indigenous cultures, and basically entirely ignoring the actual content and meaning of anything youre attempting to refer to, inaccurately, which is a pretty colonizer-pilled approach in the first place. Be better
Presumably he's talking about wheels of cheese
"premodernist_history"? Pre- that stupid modernism such as actually applying the scientific method correctly for once instead of just talking shit and calling it a science and a day?