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ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 8 days ago

Robert F Kennedy Jr. says Arabs don’t produce science or literature

www.aljazeera.com

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Robert F Kennedy Jr. says Arabs don’t produce science or literature

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ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 8 days ago
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US Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr. has said that Arabs don’t produce science, literature, or win Nobel prizes.
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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    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.

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      And also …capitalism?

      Early forms of capitalism are thought to have been developed in the Islamic Golden Age starting from the 9th century, and later became dominant in European Muslim territories like Al-Andalus and the Emirate of Sicily. The Islamic economic concepts taken and applied by the gunpowder empires and various Islamic kingdoms and sultanates led to systemic changes in their economy, particularly in the Mughal Empire. Bengal, a major trading nation of the medieval world, signaled the period of proto-industrialization making direct contribution to the world's first Industrial Revolution after the British conquests.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_economics

      (I do know Muslim ≠ Arab but a lot of key researchers and their peers were Arab)

    • Khwarezm@lemmy.world
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      Came to say this lol!!! What a racist, stupid man!!

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      Al-khwarizmi was not Arab tho.

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        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

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    I mean Abdul Alhazred wrote the Necronomicon, which I consider to be both science and literature.

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      Praise be to Yog Sothoth!

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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      And let’s not forget Dick Dale’s contributions to music.

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    Being a white supremacist typically entails having a poor grasp of recorded history.

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      You could even say ignorance is a prerequisite.

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    I heard The Dems were trying to get kids in school to use Arabic numerals

    • Sgarcnl@lemmy.world
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      Gaasp!

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    Robert F. Kennedy admits he is an ignorant fool when it comes to discussing science and literature.

    FtFY

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    he doesnt either. he parrots conspiracies that have been scientifically proven false

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      i object to your use of the word “either”. that gives him too much credibility.

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    Firstly that’s super fucking racist. Secondly, the Islamic golden age famously involved a hell of a lot of science and literature being produced bt Arabs. Thirdly, in recent history there was one famous Arab guy who was so committed to producing literature he was writing books while working an extremely high stress job.

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      TIL. I don’t think I will read them but I’ll remember they exist.

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      Hitler wrote a book while in prison

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        Yeah but it was more of an unhinged manifesto/screed. Hussain wrote novels, at least one of which was a romance, which is far more impressive

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          Soft hearted guy \s

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    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.

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      I don’t see Robert F Kennedy Junior producing science or literature either.

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      Something, something …. He must not have learned Arabic numbers in school

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    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.

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      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.

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        Then he should add that Iranians never made any literature for good measure.

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      Nothing worse than a confident fool.

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        Besides a confident fool in a powerful position.

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      Removed by mod

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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.

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            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.

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    Heroin Bobby with the Grandpa Joe aura

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    What kind of numbers will we use if we want to express in writing a number of how many times this asshole has been wrong. Beware the number is probably not gonna be high enough.

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    It’s a single internet search…

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      Most of their arguments for years could be debunked with a 5 minute search. Problem is, RFK Jr. And the like do not care. They will say that shit all the same no matter how gars you debunk them. If anything, having you spend time debunking is the whole point.

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    Yes because A Thousand and One Nights and the works of the Arab alchemists that were critical to the foundation of modern chemistry is all fake. /s

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      Your point still stands, but this is probably a bad example. Many of the stories from A Thousand and One Nights were written by European authors to keep up the sales when they ran out of the originals. Many of the ones we know today were not written outside of europe.

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      Or like half the anti-colonial literature in 19th and 20th centuries… /s

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    The fact the average conservative can see and even hear this and say its not racist shows how silly the average centrist is for trying to meet them in the middle.

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      “Arab is not a race!!”

      As if there’s such a thing as race.

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    ALgebra? ALgorithm?

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      ALcohol.

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