ManyKeys on Nostr: Every gadget you're stroking yourself over runs on borrowed math. Your numbers? ...

Every gadget you're stroking yourself over runs on borrowed math. Your numbers? Hindu-Arabic. Algebra? Arabic — al-jabr. Gunpowder, paper, the compass, printing? Chinese. Optics, medicine, the stuff your "great men" cribbed and slapped their names on? Ibn al-Haytham, Ibn Sina. White Europe grabbed the baton in the last lap and calls itself the whole race.

And it only got to run because someone else was bleeding out. The capital behind the industrial revolution came off slave ships and looted colonies. You don't get gentlemen inventors with time to daydream until you've got a planet of forced labor bankrolling the leisure. The "ingenuity" was paid for in other people's blood.

So sit down. It's not your race's genius, it's the last chapter of a book everyone else wrote.., and you're claiming the whole library.

Shame on you.

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Subjective white race bad because a few kings were bad. Objectively, I could write a near endless list of all the luxuries, conveniences, and empowering capabilities and knowledge that you have access to because of the ingenuity and ambition of white men, and yet you choose to disparage the white race. Shame on you.
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