#Civilization

THREAD:I am shook and by Kenyan parents (and non-parents alike) claiming that those high school girls on strike because of manual labour at their school are wrong and entitled.Here's a
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To the benefit of TSLA shareholders and clean air Covid has ramped up demand for BEV faster than the market predicted.The EU, CA, and governments worldwide are calling for limits
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This article is worth reading for its firsthand account of the people involved in the fascist uprising, but this particular detail really struck me. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists This characterizat
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Colonizers were Christians. Apartheid legislators/leaders were Christians. King Leopold II of Belgium encouraged Christianity, and so did neo-Nazi Eugène N. Terre Blanche. Now it is very hard to convince me
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Here's the new 'Inclusivity Statement' that's in the syllabus for all of the college courses I teach. The goal is to promote genuine diversity of opinion & to nudge students
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short thread on history and statuesDo some statues deserve to be toppled and removed? Of course. My father went to school in Italy when fascism was largely still a taboo
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Some truth here, but also an overestimation of the benefits likely to accrue from striving for respectability. https://twitter.com/Robin_C_Douglas/status/1334929195399573510 I think that Hutton doesn't sufficiently recognize the extent
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"Jai jai shiv shankar, kaata laage na kankar, ke pyaala tere naam ka piya..."NCB: In boyhood, bollywood movies made "charas ganja" sound like evil poison and I once asked my
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I've noticed a kind of tribal individualist that's common online. They move in mobs, make nearly identical objections, claim not be a group or believe in groups, and are extremely
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Been thinking that the people who freaked out about the printing press, saying it would destroy society, were absolutely right. The proliferation of information irrevocably destroyed society as they knew
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The Golden Age...A term (i suppose) well known by most of us. So why mention it? What really defines a ''Golden Age''? Let's start with one important notion: The worldview
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In this #thread I aim to fulfil 2 objectives:1. Provide historiographical evidence about “gunpowder” as a military tool.2. Appeal to #History enthusiasts to think for themselves and seek the truth
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Who Was #BharatenduHarishchandra?Harishchandra created amazing poems and dramas that left benchmark. In 1880, the scholars of Kashi bestowed him with the title ‘Bharatendu. There is hardly an individual who hasn’t
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Carter G. Woodson, the "Father of Black History Month", observed that in spite of Black Americans being central to the story of America, their accomplishments were largely neglected in the
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Reclaim Bharat:A thread on Indian farming system:In ancient India (Bharat), natural farming was practised. Now, what is natural farming? It is modern day 'organic farming'. When Bharat was a 'samriddh
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I put up a FB post earlier today that mentioned my wife, Priya. Some comments on the post lead to a discussion about her name being Priya and if it
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