Yeah, I'll forever be puzzled as to why some sjws insist on ignoring actual black historical figures and civilizations in favor of trying to peddle nutty historical revisionist nonsense about how a non-black person/group was totally black and evil white oppressors just hid the truth.
Especially when its with ancient Egyptians. Dear god what is with that particular fixation.
The debate around what colour the egyptians were is one of the most frustrating examples of politics (specifically race politics) interfereing with academia.
I'm not going to sperg off into detailed debunking and discussion of the studies since the 1970's, i'll just point out that the opinion that ancient egypt was black is rejected by the vast majority of egyptologists- citing sculpture, art,period literature, language and the preserved bodies of the actual fucking egyptians. The bodies have caucasian facial features and hair with north african skeletal proportians. The obvious conclusion is that the egyptians, being north africans, looked like north africans. With the corresponding range of skin tones, darker in the south and lighter in the north. Revolutionary i know. There was a bit of a fuss kicked up in 2007 when American afrocentrics really began pushing for recognition that the the ancient egyptians were black but every dna study since has returned results showing the mix of middle eastern, african and south European dna one would expect in northern africa, with most scholars agreeing that the modern population is 90% the same as the ancient one.
i only bring this up because the Afrocentrism side of academia shares so much with the SJW world:
There is hypocrisy as they cling to concepts of race no longer considered valid by the rest of the world. The definitions of race look more like something from jim crow america or apartheid sa than a scholarly lable for a specific social group. Why they think it would matter is a question they tend to shy away from.
Deliberately putting their own bias into their work to 'balance' the historical bias, when modern scholarship actively tries to stay objective. This is common in certain rad fem circles as well- doing something widely considered wrong or bad practice now to balance out a perceived historical wrong.
They accuse anyone who provides evidence that disagrees with them as 'deliberately confusing the public' a thinly veiled academic euphemism for an accusation of racism. If you argue with them without an established academic pedigree they will outright accuse you of racism.
They've created separate echo chambers 'african studies' 'african american studies' this essentially retards the peer review process by limiting their peers to those they agree with rather than historians generally. As i mentioned in past posts (either on this thread or the definitions one, i forget which) SJW's do this too with 'womens studies'.
They are found almost exclusively in the rich liberal parts of the US. I don't know enough about this to explain its relevance but i doubt its a coincidence that sjw's and afrocents are found in the same environment.
They dishonestly misrepresent data- a strand of african dna proves a pharoh was black despite the majority of his dna being from the middle east. Taking mislabled victorian diagrams of egyptian depictions of races and refusing to correct them as this would be whitewashing- despite the fact that the erroneous depictions they are relying on were mistranslated and mis compiled by white men. Insisting europeans are insulting modern egypt by removing its blackness-when egypt's senior egyptologists replied that in their view ancient egypt was not black he was accused of racism.
Afrocentricts also spend a huge amount of time attacking 'eurocentrism' and using it as a scapegoat the same as sjw's use 'patriarchy'.
Its pathetic as there are loads of legitimately under studied and poorly understood african civilizations that should be being explored on their own merits rather than wasting time trying to claim egypt was black. Its horribly racist as it implies the rest of africa is somehow inferior. They don't need egypt to prove sophistication as 1. No serious academic thinks black people are inferior 2. There are plenty other examples of sophisticated black societies.
I can't quite put my finger on it but there is a fundamental link between sjw's and afrocents. I suspect it has something to do with both a massive inferiority complex, victum complex and an fanatical opposition to anything that contradicts their world view to the point that they are willing to censer and pervert data if it disagrees with them.
As i said i cant quite get it but there is a common thread.
This was typed on my phone so apologies for the horrendous grammar and spelling- my phone is sonygender droidsexual and hates white cis males like me!
