Watch them try to ban Arabic numerals and force everyone to use Roman numbers again.
I really REALLY want this to happen. It would be such a perfect example of how incredibly ignorant they are and the complete lack of understanding they have for the world around them.
Like the time a city banned “di-hydrogen monoxide” for like a day until they realized it was just a fancy name for H2O lol
Like the time a city banned “di-hydrogen monoxide” for like a day until they realized it was just a fancy name for H2O lol
That’s not quite the story…
Viejo, California put a proposal on its agenda to ban plastic foam containers over the chemicals used in making them. In the proposal they listed “dihydrogen monoxide”, among other things, presumably because they likely added it to the list after failing to identify a satire website, and it went viral, mostly in right-wing circles that hate anything that protects the environment.
It never got past the proposal stage, and the “dihydrogen monoxide” part wasn’t even the reason why. They never actually banned water and had to walk that back, a Republican lied to you to make you think that.
I think my high school chemistry teacher told us that as a reason why it’s important to know the periodic table or something, idk what their political motivations were.
But I guess even before AI stories were getting twisted and changed to fit narratives or serve personal purposes. Thanks for the info tho, always good to know more info.
It’s not even a fancy name, it’s very literally the scientific name of it…the shit you learn in high school science classes
Nice of you to assume that magats went to school.
But I really like zero.
Ave, true to Caesar!
And to better sell this idea of Arabs not producing science or literature, let us ban algebra and algorithms so people don’t think of those things ever.
And also …capitalism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_economics
(I do know Muslim ≠ Arab but a lot of key researchers and their peers were Arab)
Came to say this lol!!! What a racist, stupid man!!
Al-khwarizmi was not Arab tho.
Arab ≠ Islamic Not always.
Many non-Arab peoples also adopted Islam.
Be sure to read the fine print when reading about history…
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And America should go back to the Good Old Roman numerals, as God intended! None of this Arabic numbers crap. /s
Arabs invented science.
at the very least some numerals
They literally saved Greek science and mathematics from extinction during the dark ages. Sure, Arabic mathematics had its mini dark age when they decided everything should be human words only to make it easier to understand for humans, then they realized that wasn’t the way to go.
Most glassware you see in a modern chemistry lab. Oh and not to mention the stills used to make hard liquor.
Being a white supremacist typically entails having a poor grasp of recorded history.
You could even say ignorance is a prerequisite.
I mean Abdul Alhazred wrote the Necronomicon, which I consider to be both science and literature.
Praise be to Yog Sothoth!
And let’s not forget Dick Dale’s contributions to music.
Motherfucker the Arabs invented algebra.
Math is woke.
The poindexter mathematicians tell me 2+2=4, but that sounds elitist to me. I’m going to pray on it and see what Jesus says it is.
Some Christians are dangerously approaching Abecederianism.
Bro, nothing riles me up like fake math!
As if x and y can be a number !
Al-gebra sounds scary
/s
Try an Algae Bra
Sounds itchy
Too bad Algebra doesn’t have that much of a use, except, it complicates matters. Why do we even need it when basic mathematics cover about 90% of the things we need to calculate things by?
Edit of shame: Fuck, I fed the trolls.
You’re an embarrassment of a user. Algebra has little to no use, period. Deal with it.
I heard The Dems were trying to get kids in school to use Arabic numerals
Gaasp!
Robert F. Kennedy admits he is an ignorant fool when it comes to discussing science and literature.
FtFY
he doesnt either. he parrots conspiracies that have been scientifically proven false
i object to your use of the word “either”. that gives him too much credibility.
Even if this total lie were somehow true, that there was something about Arab culture or Semitic people that magically made them unable to “produce culture” uhhh they’re still people?? Like they deserve exactly as much dignity and respect as any other people.
But it’s also obviously a stupid racist lie.
I don’t see Robert F Kennedy Junior producing science or literature either.
Something, something …. He must not have learned Arabic numbers in school
My brother tried telling me about how all great advancements came from Europe and European descendants.
I brought up the Islamic Golden Age of Science and he immediately questioned if it was real…
Mostly on Mathematics and Material Science.
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and literature. and philosophy. and medicine. and geography. and astronomy.
at least a third of the stars you see at night have names that come from Arabic! (Betelgeuse, Aldebaran, Rasalhague, Altair, Deneb, etc.)
Economics and sociology too: Abu Yusuf for supply and demand, Ibn Khaldun for asabiyyah, works on taxation, and many more things, and many more scholars.
And education: Natham almulk for scholarship and university campus
Controversial opinion: What RFK jr said here is what every Western person is taught in school. The West has systemically erased any non-European achievement from its literature. Going as far as to rename prominent Muslim scholars such as Ibn Sinna and Ibn Rushd and give them names like Avicenna or Averroes.
This is a way to indoctrinate studente of science by giving them the idea that all of modern science has originated from the West since all they see is Western names.
What RFK jr says here is not a failure of his own education. It is what he has been indoctrinated with by the Western education system.
The West has systemically erased any non-European achievement from its literature. Going as far as to rename prominent Muslim scholars such as Ibn Sinna and Ibn Rushd and give them names like Avicenna or Averroes.
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Be me.
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Middle ages monk.
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Translating arabic works
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Arabic omitted short vowels, so it was written e.g. BN.
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My local Andalusian Arab neighbour pronounces that as Aven, Abven, Avin, and س Sin (s in sinna) was pronounced Ts.
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So I write Avicenna.
And now some shmuck comes 1k years later and calls it malicious systemic erasure.
Is this the excuse they came up with?
So change it back they know what it sounds like. It is fully Latinized for a much different reason.
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Literally starts with his name, and mention that he is known as Avicenna in the West.
Go to English Wikipedia and reverse the redirect to go to Ibn Sina from Avicenna, if that is the core of your problem. Wikipedia is famously free to edit.
Then google more to see all the damn example of using Ibn Sina (Avicenna).
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Controversial opinions are supposed to be opinions, not claims of fact. And what you said isn’t true. RFK’s idiotic opinions don’t represent the country as a whole
The controversial part of my claim is that he does represent the country as a whole. This is what the education system teaches people in the West.
When you look up anything about scientific achievements on the internet it will all be about 1500s to 1700s Europe, completely disregarding the 900s to 1200s Islamic golden age in Iraq, where Europe kick started most of its scientific knowledge from. Famous European scholars such as Fibonacci studied math in Algeria under Arabic teachers. Who got most of their material from the house of knowledge in Baghdad Iraq, the worldwide center of science at the time. Now only known for fake WMDs and oil.
It is an insidious type of censorship where people are selectively informed when seeking information on science. They are only told about Western achievements. Thus they start thinking what RFK said because that is their logical conclusion.
Try looking up when science kicked off or about the biggest scientific achievements and it will talk about either ancient Greece in 500bc or about the 1500s and later unless you specifically start looking for it. Always Europe.
When you look up anything about scientific achievements on the internet it will all be about 1500s to 1700s Europe, completely disregarding the 900s to 1200s Islamic golden age in Iraq,
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You literally must be looking into wrong places. No idea where and what.
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The golden age in the Abbasid Caliphate, not in the Iraq. Be precise here.
Golden age of Iraq was mid 20th century when poverty was minimalised, education flourished, literacy skyrocketed, and arts boomed. Just after WW2 and during oil boom.
- It wasn’t just Baghdad (currently in Iraq), it was Cairo, Damascus, Fez, Samarkand, etc.
most of its scientific knowledge from. Famous European scholars such as Fibonacci studied math in Algeria under Arabic teachers. Who got most of their material from the house of knowledge in Baghdad Iraq, the worldwide center of science at the time
This is such a nationalistic take. Bayt al-Hikma started with translating all other existing knowledge there was to obtain. Including Greek. Including Hindu. Took them about 200 years of doing that before they added on top of it. And now you, who claim this to be forgotten ancestor, that should’ve get credited (“Fibonacci taught by Algerians, but they should be crediting Baghdad Iraq instead”), are doing the same. Baghdad Iraq and Arabic Numerals? Please, according to your logic here, its Hindu numerals in Arabic Gobar font.
Sure thing RFK jr
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You’re just more proof. Thanks.
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Did you have social studies growing up? I did, and I remember learning a slew of names that I didn’t have any idea how to pronounce.
We learned about discoveries that stemmed from various parts of the globe.
I can’t remember very much of it, because I preffered science and math classes in Junior high. This was in a small town in Texas too, in the 00s.
OMG, he’s so stupid, none of us can breathe.
Whats really striking about these conservatives is how confident they are even when they are completely and factually wrong.
Because their goal is not to be right. Sure, some of them genuinely do believe some of the things they say; but in general the point behind what they say is significantly more important and why they’re actually saying it.
In this case, this is a mix of Israeli racism and normal white people racism to further justify endless war in the middle east to fuel the doomsday cult.
Then he should add that Iranians never made any literature for good measure.
Nothing worse than a confident fool.
Besides a confident fool in a powerful position.
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It’s strange to see such a clear example of antisemitism in an era where it’s usually just Israel and their proponents gaslighting any criticism about itself.
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Yes yes, I didn’t need any more of a confirmation, thank you.
The whole ethnic is pretty tenuous. Judaism is pretty heterogeneous. They share a few core beliefs and customs, but the bulk is vastly different among groups.
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Nazi rhetoric.
What science or literature has Brainworms produced?
All I see this asshat doing is trying to sabotage proven medicine we already have, set American research back decades, and generally carry on with the conservative project of trying to roll back the Enlightenment as whole.
He can go fuck himself. It’s fine if he’s not producing science himself, but at the very least, he should get the fuck out of the way of those that can. Certainly, he should shut the fuck up about what others produce when he beclowns himself on the regular when he talks about science.
how to convince people to do heroin most likely.
Heroin Bobby with the Grandpa Joe aura
