Based? This is cringe pozzed shit from beginning to end.
Misconception: Africa is one big thing
Nobody who knows anything at all thinks Egypt is the same as Kenya is the same as South Africa. This is a misconception of only the most uninitiated dullards.
Everyone agrees that European societies are diverse
Dude has clearly never listened to a leftist.
Before anyone asks if Egypt counts as African
Oh, so now he know that people are fully aware that Africa is not 'one big thing'. Ok.
Basic Geography would indicate yes
Basic Geography indicates Europe doesn't exist and is the westernmost corner of Asia, but here we are. I'm sure he knows that in this case, people are simply pointing out that the Egyptians are genetically disctinct from the the subsaharan africans, as one would expect from the IMPASSIBILITY OF THE SAHARA that he mentioned mere minutes ago. He even directly compared it to an OCEAN. There is functionally an OCEAN between North Africa and the savannah.
Misconception: African villages and groups all had chiefs
I have... never heard this one.
Africans had slaves
Oh my god. First he tells us how he's not here to run PR for historical cultures, and then in very next fucking breath, he's sugarcoating and downplaying slavery in Africa. He even somehow brings himself to say Africa didn't have trans-atlantic slave trade! Uh... buddy! It takes two to tango! They were the ready, willing, and able suppliers! He then holds up a slave who who wrote a book about his enslavement on both sides of the atlantic for the sole purpose of telling us that the guy had a worse time in America, as if the experiences of individual slaves aren't going to MASSIVELY differ based on who their individual master is.
Africa is poor... No, no, COWS!
Amazing. How many cows for a gunboat? He even tries to cast Gold as 'European' and not 'The rest of the fucking word'. He even has to ignore every nation in Africa that developed beyond subsistence farming in order to do this - after mentioning several of them.
The British discovered gold
Yeah, that had sat there for millennia without the locals every figuring out its value to the rest of the world. ...Except, y'know. Not in those places he mentioned earlier, again.
Africa poor because colonization!
I'm reminded of a certain video of a Chinese guy laying it to some african guy straight about how much of a tech/infrastructure head start they had on China in the wake of colonization, how they squandered and destroyed it all, and are now owned by the Chinese.
borders
At least he admits people who don't see eye to eye shouldn't share a country. ...I wonder how he feels about the border of first world countries today?
medical innovation!
Yes, you can make rapid medical advancements when you have no qualms with human experimentation. Thank the war crimes of Unit 731 should you ever need treatment for frostbite.
These societies are the way they are because of geography and climate, and subsistence farming isn't worse than living in a city, i-i-it's just l-less c-comfortable!
C O P E
But thanks for indirectly explaining to us why our fertile lands must be defended, and what is left for those cast out into infertile lands.
Thanks to Britain we have centuries of evidence that dropping your culture ontop of another one expecting it all to work out leads to catastrophe for everyone involved
YES IT DOES. The most BASED statement in the whole video.
And we are about to learn the same lesson in reverse!
The colonial powers genuinely thought they were doing the world a favor, bringing civilization to it.
Today, those same powers again think they are doing the world a favor, letting the 3rd world into our civilization.
It's utter fucking suicide born of foolish, pathological altruism.
I'm reminded of a certain video of a Chinese guy laying it to some african guy straight about how much of a tech/infrastructure head start they had on China in the wake of colonization, how they squandered and destroyed it all, and are now owned by the Chinese.
Empire of Dust is the documentary you're thinking of, and this is probably the clip in question.
Based? This is cringe pozzed shit from beginning to end.
Nobody who knows anything at all thinks Egypt is the same as Kenya is the same as South Africa. This is a misconception of only the most uninitiated dullards.
Dude has clearly never listened to a leftist.
Oh, so now he know that people are fully aware that Africa is not 'one big thing'. Ok.
Basic Geography indicates Europe doesn't exist and is the westernmost corner of Asia, but here we are. I'm sure he knows that in this case, people are simply pointing out that the Egyptians are genetically disctinct from the the subsaharan africans, as one would expect from the IMPASSIBILITY OF THE SAHARA that he mentioned mere minutes ago. He even directly compared it to an OCEAN. There is functionally an OCEAN between North Africa and the savannah.
I have... never heard this one.
Oh my god. First he tells us how he's not here to run PR for historical cultures, and then in very next fucking breath, he's sugarcoating and downplaying slavery in Africa. He even somehow brings himself to say Africa didn't have trans-atlantic slave trade! Uh... buddy! It takes two to tango! They were the ready, willing, and able suppliers! He then holds up a slave who who wrote a book about his enslavement on both sides of the atlantic for the sole purpose of telling us that the guy had a worse time in America, as if the experiences of individual slaves aren't going to MASSIVELY differ based on who their individual master is.
Amazing. How many cows for a gunboat? He even tries to cast Gold as 'European' and not 'The rest of the fucking word'. He even has to ignore every nation in Africa that developed beyond subsistence farming in order to do this - after mentioning several of them.
Yeah, that had sat there for millennia without the locals every figuring out its value to the rest of the world. ...Except, y'know. Not in those places he mentioned earlier, again.
I'm reminded of a certain video of a Chinese guy laying it to some african guy straight about how much of a tech/infrastructure head start they had on China in the wake of colonization, how they squandered and destroyed it all, and are now owned by the Chinese.
At least he admits people who don't see eye to eye shouldn't share a country. ...I wonder how he feels about the border of first world countries today?
Yes, you can make rapid medical advancements when you have no qualms with human experimentation. Thank the war crimes of Unit 731 should you ever need treatment for frostbite.
C O P E
But thanks for indirectly explaining to us why our fertile lands must be defended, and what is left for those cast out into infertile lands.
YES IT DOES. The most BASED statement in the whole video. And we are about to learn the same lesson in reverse!
The colonial powers genuinely thought they were doing the world a favor, bringing civilization to it.
Today, those same powers again think they are doing the world a favor, letting the 3rd world into our civilization.
It's utter fucking suicide born of foolish, pathological altruism.
Empire of Dust is the documentary you're thinking of, and this is probably the clip in question.
Yep, that's the one.