>The biggest cope on why Europe actually wasn't that great they just got lucky >wonderful sophistry useful for arguing against what is blatant superiority>Jared Diamond>Early li-ACK
>>18244287He has a funny gnome beard.
i don't get why this book is so controversiali read it and its just a basic overview of human geography and anthropological stuffhe never says anything crazy or off the wall, lefties say its racist even though like half the point of his book is literally "race is meaningless"and i guess chuds hate it because it says white people only "got lucky"
>>18244308I think it's because he still glorifies European civilization. If Marx had said the same thing it would have been the greatest peice of Marxist text.
>>18244308>>18244320SJWs hate it because it frames European supremacy as inevitableRightoids hate it because it frames said superiority as not being geneticActual historians and archeologists hate it because it overgeneralizes and cherrypicks shit and makes big and basic errors about some stuff (especially the Spanish conquest of the Aztec/Inca)
>>18244287That book asserts that the africans never domesticated any animals because the zebra is impossible to tame. Obviously Mr. Diamond is retarded.
>>18244423Everyone asserts with absolutely 0 evidence that somehow eurasia got the most adorable tameable creatures and somehow every other continent despite being replete with LITERAL horses and bovines and other ungulates, just got unlucky.
>>18244432seriously in another universe we would just have cute cow-sized bison, but amerindians are literally just too busy flaying the skin off one another to appease the great turtle.
>>18244287oh God, you are so buttfucked by that book that you can not simply forget and let go of it.
>>18244423Putting 4 zebras on a carriage long enough to take a photo of them is not the same as domestication.
>>18244454It shows they have potential of domestication,
>>18244463No, it shows they managed to get them to stay still long enough to take a photo of them.
>>18244287If there was any truth to geographic determinism, modern logistics should've equalized the playing field long time agoSouth African history alone disproves this garbage
>>18244471Yep all this set up for a photo op. Harnessing them to a carriage; setting up a camera the size of a Jeep, putting some evidently affluent passengers on a cart, all to risk their lives for a photo op just to troll future chuds into thinking they've tamed zebra. God browns/nonwhites cannot wrap their heads around their inferiority LMFAOOOOOOOO :DDDDDD :DDDDDD
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>>18244485>trvkeseriously THE ONLY reason I'm glad I am white is because I do not need to deal with this fucking ridiculous cognitive dissonance, wherein I pretend I'm equal to whites in a world where I am surrounded by endless evidence to the contrary. It HAS to feel bad.
>>18244485lol
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>>18244497>but riding an animal once as a show means you can ride them as a primary means of transportationCool, when will white people start riding bears and dogs on the way to work?
>>18244485>suggest whites aren't the mast race descended down from Thule to rule the earth>Timmy has a fucking meltdownYou're crying over a posed photo my guy.
>>18244506>posed photolol
>>18244308There are a lot of specific problems but the main issue is that it just oversimplifies history to such a degree that it's not even helpful
>>18244512>posts another posed photo
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>>18244308>i don't get why this book is so controversialBecause it's based on very sloppy understanding of literally every topic it touches.Just some examples.> his explanation of collapse of GreenlandHe literally uses absence of evidence (no fishbones in trash heaps) as evidence of absence (that the Norse didn't fish and thus starved). Meanwhile there are tons of alternative explanations. For example boiling fishbones for some practical uses (food or glue production).> muh zebras can't be domesticatedHe weaponizes his complete misunderstanding how genetics and domestication work to claim that African species somehow aren't domesticable like their Eurasian cousins. > muh geographyCompletely ignores how in parts of Africa and other continents climactic conditions are completely conduitive to civilization. Heck, parts of Subsaharan Africa (like of the Horn of Africa and the Zanj coast) had access to Eurasian civilization since Antiquity and had similar climactic conditions.> muh is down to luckCompletely ignores the institutional framework, how social and cultural institutions make some societies more adaptable, enterprenual and conductive to technological progress than others. This is where Diamond absolutely fails.
>>18244308Lefties dont say its racist, its pushed on academic universities all the time with the specific angle that OP mentioned
>>18244308Thats the thing, it isn't meaningless and "people" like him and Boas push a false narrative.
>>18244497This is CGI from the latest Avatar movie or something. You simply cannot tame the Zebra.
