[-] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I don't know who that is, I assume whoever first said it which is why Melian put it in quotes, just wanted to offer up that even if it's in quotes, when you uncritically repeat demeaning insults like that you contribute to a hostile atmosphere that alienates people already on the margins of society who should be your comrades

edit: glad whoever that is stopped using that word, shouldn't have taken so long. he desperately needs further introspection

[-] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago

I'm sure this wasn't intentional, but using dwarf as an insult can be rather hurtful to people with dwarfism. There are reasons to be upset with Kruschev but that's unrelated to his stature, and certainly has nothing to do with being a dwarf/little person, which he was not.

[-] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Or perhaps he has come to the truth that two unites into one, and that permanent tariffs can coexist with open borders as humanity unites in its next stage of social development.

[-] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

I don't care about DNA stuff, and to be honest there is a lot of weird race science wrapped up in people's obsession with DNA. Nor can DNA actually tell you how someone looked in real life; it is simply one of the many factors that go into someone's complexion and skin tone.

I gotta say though, there is something a bit uncomfortable about asserting that Egypt is being "secretive" with their cultural honoured and revered dead, when the history of "Egyptology" is the pillage and plunder of Egyptian history at the hands of white scientists seeking to build their own civilizational narrative.

No one owes western science unfettered access to their history or the right to assert western science as some objective truth-building endeavour.

[-] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

This would also kill everyone in Gaza. If seeing people suffer and die upsets you, the response should not be a belief that people should die on a larger scale, but that you should be looking for the people that are also opposed to suffering and death to try to create something that uplifts people. New futures are built through the dedicated application of human imagination: not through wishful (or vengeful) thinking, but through a conscious effort to create better possibilities.

There are billions of people on this planet, and wishing death on all of them is what the fascists are doing. Please try not to join them in that line of reasoning.

[-] Muinteoir_Saoirse@hexbear.net 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's probably because in real life Ramesses II had red hair, and a lot of white people seem to have a hard time imagining someone with natural red hair having dark skin and eyes, even though that was sort of a big deal for Egyptians at the time.

That being said, fair skin and light coloured eyes are not an entirely uncommon trait for the area (North Africa and West Asia, Egypt's sphere of influence at the time). Not likely they were traits possessed by Ramesses, though a very questionable race science examination tried to assert he was a fair-skinned man of Amazigh (Berber) descent in the 70s, which is probably where they drew this idea of him from. Though they nailed his big beautiful nose.

Edit: On further inspection it sort of looks like they just made a beefier blue-eyed version of Yul Brynner from the Ten Commandments

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