This book claims that black people built Stonehenge.
This might be amusing, were it not an award-winning work recommended for every classroom.
Here's a selection of absurdities it presents: 🧵
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- A collective groan, the predictable 'why do you even care?'—and then memory-holed within a week. Why do they keep doing this, and what should the response be? Short 🧵
- >Single mother of two >Past child-bearing years >Double-didgit bodycount >Mid >Rotting teeth from chewing too much sugar cane >Ex-prisoner >Adulterer >Barely literate What did Napoleon see in Joséphine?
- >banned smoking on public transport >banned animal cruelty >slashed unemployment >preserved forests >subsidised holidays for workers >restricted contraceptives >financially rewarded parenthood >banned homosexuality (except for lesbians) Would you have voted for this gentleman?
- ‘If I were black, I would be for the blacks; being white, I am for the whites.’ — NAPOLEON
- After Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington attended a ball in Vienna. Upon his arrival, some French officers turned their backs on the conqueror of their emperor. When a woman apologized to the Duke for their rudeness, he replied: ‘’Tis of no matter, Your Highness; I have seen
- Churchill is the worst prime minister in British history. Look beyond the speeches and witty one-liners, and you have a man who bankrupted Britain to defeat an ideology that, by his own admission, paled in barbarity to Stalinism, for allies who do not care for this sacrifice.Which opinion about history will get you like this?
- "You were there at Austerlitz, weren't you?" Senior soldiers would swell with pride when Napoleon, who always knew which regiment had fought where, would share anecdotes from the battles the unit had distinguished themselves in, to the envy of the younger men around them. With
- Has there ever existed a people more finely tuned for global conquest than the Scots?
00:00 - Just learned that Americans rebelled whilst paying 1% tax on income and tea, whilst British subjects were paying 25%. What the fuck was their problem?
- ‘Put all the Dutch people in Ireland, and Ireland would be the garden of Europe. Put all the Irish people in the Netherlands, and it would sink.’ - Otto von Bismarck
- ‘Why do you want it red? You will lose the element of surprise.’ ‘I don't want them to be surprised, I want them to be afraid...’ – Manfred von Richthofen, WWI fighter ace
