• Ougie@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Here we go again with the random shitting on the Greeks.

    Bet the girls in England looked way better than this 9000 years ago, nothing like cro magnon apes no no they didn’t eat fleas out of each other’s backs where’d you hear that

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      random shitting? so it’s not related to the scientific research that was done in Greece and not in England?

      • Ougie@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        I’ve noticed a trend lately - not sure how far back this goes - but it appears to me that aspects of the Greek civilization are very often attributed to the Romans and mentions of the Greeks are often reduced to derogatory memes (like how easy it is to be Socrates because there was only a bunch of people alive at the time and other such bs) and of course let’s not forget how gay everyone was (as if that’s a bad thing but whatever). Couple that with misconceptions about Alexander the great and how he was supposedly a Slav and Macedonias weren’t Greek blah blah, the fact that the Turks are trying to claim that everything that now lies in modern day Turkey is “theirs” etc etc, the claims from Christians around the world that Christian ideas are the basis of the western civilization and morality in general as if they didn’t just appropriate everything from past religions and belief systems… Anyway rant over.

        • Forester@pawb.social
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          2 hours ago

          It sounds like you need to make some lemonade pour in the ouzo and not worry about mallakas

          • Ougie@lemmy.world
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            24 minutes ago

            Hah I’m not worried mate it’s all good, I just find it interesting how certain interest groups can change narratives from one day to the next. Btw this misrepresentation extends to all the non-English speaking peoples, who are basically excluded from the internet.