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The term Viking describes a profession (pirating/raiding) than an ethnicity. Now every robber (pirate) needs a fence, and going to the people that were pillage

by yyyk 1y ago

The term Viking describes a profession (pirating/raiding) than an ethnicity. Now every robber (pirate) needs a fence, and going to the people that were pillaged is obviously suboptimal. Much better to go to others who are not well-disposed to the victims.

throw844949 1y ago
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  - vbezhenar 1y ago
    Neanderthals were native to Europe. Get back to Africa, you pesky Cro-Magnons.
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- mr_toad 1y ago
  > Modern "britain" was colonized and natives were almost wiped out! Yeah, but not by Vikings. Saxons, and before them Celts did a lot of ethnic cleansing. By contrast the people who we think of as conquerors (Romans, Vikings, Normans) subjugated, rather than replaced the native population.
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    - 0xEF 1y ago
      More ! should get your point across. It takes some pretty impressive mental gymastics to rationalize holding people today accountable for something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago, as though the people today were somehow responsible. Wouldn't working together to share the space be a much more reasonable and sustainable solution? But no, let's tell people who had nothing to do with historical events to get out and create more conflict. Sure.
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        wizzwizz4 1y ago
        Somewhere, underneath this, you have the beginnings of a valid point. I suggest some time to reflect, get your thoughts in order, and think about the analogy you're drawing, and the extent to which it's valid. Reactionary flaming helps nobody. "Do bad things to bad people! The label of 'bad people' is inconsistently-applied and hard to justify! Do bad things to them anyway!!!!!" is not insightful, and it's not satire. It is, however, wildly off-topic for this thread. What do you want to accomplish? If it's "draw attention to injustice": the comments you're making are so unspecific that they're only intelligible to people who already know about the problem. If it's "motivate people to act": being irritating isn't effective at that. If it's "change people's minds"… well, I'll quote Friedrich Nietzsche: > The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. If you care about the plight of Palestinians, work a summer job for an hour and send the money to Spark Space (https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza), or something.
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by yyyk 1y ago

throw844949 1y ago

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- vbezhenar 1y ago
  Neanderthals were native to Europe. Get back to Africa, you pesky Cro-Magnons.
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mr_toad 1y ago
> Modern "britain" was colonized and natives were almost wiped out! Yeah, but not by Vikings. Saxons, and before them Celts did a lot of ethnic cleansing. By contrast the people who we think of as conquerors (Romans, Vikings, Normans) subjugated, rather than replaced the native population.
- throw844949 1y ago
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  - 0xEF 1y ago
    More ! should get your point across. It takes some pretty impressive mental gymastics to rationalize holding people today accountable for something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago, as though the people today were somehow responsible. Wouldn't working together to share the space be a much more reasonable and sustainable solution? But no, let's tell people who had nothing to do with historical events to get out and create more conflict. Sure.
    - throw844949 1y ago
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      - wizzwizz4 1y ago
        Somewhere, underneath this, you have the beginnings of a valid point. I suggest some time to reflect, get your thoughts in order, and think about the analogy you're drawing, and the extent to which it's valid. Reactionary flaming helps nobody. "Do bad things to bad people! The label of 'bad people' is inconsistently-applied and hard to justify! Do bad things to them anyway!!!!!" is not insightful, and it's not satire. It is, however, wildly off-topic for this thread. What do you want to accomplish? If it's "draw attention to injustice": the comments you're making are so unspecific that they're only intelligible to people who already know about the problem. If it's "motivate people to act": being irritating isn't effective at that. If it's "change people's minds"… well, I'll quote Friedrich Nietzsche: > The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. If you care about the plight of Palestinians, work a summer job for an hour and send the money to Spark Space (https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza), or something.
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