I remember a teacher telling me how Archaeologists would hack off the noses of statues they found in order to remove any indication that it was of a black person or any POC. It hurts me to think of all the art we’ve lost and damaged because of historical revisionism and flat out racism.
I…wasn’t taught this. Only about penises being broken off as censorship.
When I was in primary school (around 8 or 9) I asked why none of the Egyptian statues had noses. They lied to us and said that they broke off because they were a really fragile bit of the statues so when I learnt the real reason (years later) I was so pissed off with teachers for lying to millions of school children around the world. It’s disgusting and needs to be taught properly.
Here we go again, indeed. Every time I come across this I’m just going to append the corrections even if it kills me, because good grief do I hate this particular piece of misinformation.
There was no widespread archaeological effort to hide the Egyptian ethnicity by chiselling off the noses of statues or reliefs.
The noses are missing because of a variety of reasons, including erosion, vandalism (modern or contemporary, but mostly contemporary), accidents or because you were an ancient Egyptian who had beef with your neighbour and said neighbour decided to kill you in the afterlife as well by hacking off your statue or relief’s nose.
unlike a lot of angry folks, i have no real problem with people who have cultivated their assets over a few generations and have a million or two in property and investments. that’s something you can actually do with hard work, time, and enough luck that medical surprises or other misfortune doesn’t take it from you. i know actually quite a few families that could pool that much across three generations or a handful of siblings and cousins. that’s the kind of wealth that gave rise to the story of wealth being the result of hard work and intelligence – because if there are a couple doctors or lawyers in the family, or someone bought IBM stock in the 70′s, some attention and elbow grease can give you seven figure results.
which is NOT to say ‘everyone can do it, if you’re poor you’re just not trying’. there are a lot of factors that go into that, and a lucky start is the biggest one. in america, abled whites get that lucky start a lot more than everyone else, and yadda yadda you know the rest.
but the point is, people with like 1.5 million, or 4 million, can end up there by taking advantage of their luck and applying work to it over decades. if that’s what their priority is, of course. so i don’t look at someone with a lake house and an investment portfolio and instantly think EVIL BAD. i think: i don’t really agree with their priorities and we probably wouldn’t get along socially, but the instinct to grow your family’s prosperity is universal, and i’m not going to condemn them without evidence of wrongdoing.
ok, that said?
the ultra-rich?
the billionaires? the hundreds-of-billions-aires?
monstrous.
you cannot cultivate money like that. you cannot grow it as a family project. it starts with an absurd windfall, and then you grow it through crimes compounding upon crimes. crimes against humanity, if not crimes by the law. you acquire billions by making money your god, and flushing your soul down the toilet.
Okay, I have some personal experience with this and let me just say: Homeless people have trouble getting help from shelters. People who like to abuse people put themselves in positions where they will have power over others. They choose jobs like staffing at a women’s or homeless shelter because the people they come into contact with are already severely disadvantaged. The clothes you donated? The staff at many places will rifle through those IN FRONT of the residents who need clothing. The staff can and will abuse the rights of the residents because they know they’ll get away with it 9/10 times.
Another thing: People do horrible things to the homeless. I have personally witnessed people offer food to people, buy it in front of them, and throw it on them. It is so easy to spit in peoples food, or put any number of disgusting things in them, and people have done and will do that to homeless people for a long, long time. Accepting cash is safer.
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