Now, creating the dots from smaller dots isn't impossible, as a rule, but there's a distinct lack of even those smaller dots to so much as create an implication or deduced concept of the many, large events, actions and resources needed to conduct such an operation. Even talking about it like I am here gives it more credibility than the morons asserting this conspiracy is true and not false (so in all reality not talking about it at all is most effective to "debunk" or "making it go away").
Also, again, I never even heard this conspiracy theory until 2016.
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1HepCat ago
CGP Grey on how the decimation of American natives was essentially a foregone consequence of even peaceful first-contact with Europeans. Americapox:
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
Anson ago
i'm definitely not watching that, and neither should anyone else. I've seen some of that guy's videos and the ones i saw made him look like a guilty white liberal pseudointellectual. also, i don't care about that topic, and the culmination of such a thought in someone's mind makes me want to double down on avoiding hearing that person's thoughts
DoomCracker ago
After watching the video, I think youre right about that guy. Most of the video is probably accurate but at one point he says something like, 'in the game of civilization, the players dont matter, only the map.' Basically saying that europeans had easier animals to domesticate, allowing us to advance more easily. He thinks modern cows are the same animal that was domesticated, unlike the bison which would be too dangerous to yoke a plow to.
Epictetus_Hierapolis ago
It's the same with the Germs and Steel ploy of native Americans not having cereal crops like Europe, yet potato and maize crops are now an entrenched staple across the globe. The dumb fucks were dumping vast quantities of gold into lakes, but couldn't be bothered to make a wheel.