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ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 4 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

www.aljazeera.com

ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.world · 4 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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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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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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    Heroin Bobby with the Grandpa Joe aura

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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.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      Something, something …. He must not have learned Arabic numbers in school

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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 Islam ≠ Arab but a lot of key researchers and their peers were Arab)

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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 thought his brain was just so addled that he fucked his speech up. He tried to say the Muslim Brotherhood caused all Muslims to stop contributing to society. He’s mentally ill and racist, basically.

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      Racist for sure. But do not excuse his behavior as ‘mentally Ill’ he knows EXACTLY what he is doing.

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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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    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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    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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    Folks there really is no reason to go all the way back to the Islamic Golden Age to disprove this fool. There are many many Arab scientists and writers alive and kicking at this moment right now.

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      He is recycling the same islamophobic shit that flooded the internet in the two years after 9/11. The arguments are 100% 2001-2003 era.

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    It’s a single internet search…

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    This headline legitimate made me laugh out loud

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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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    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!

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      And let’s not forget Dick Dale’s contributions to music.

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    Yeah, unlike quacks, grifters and con artists who make up their own awards.

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      No Arabic person has ever won the FIFA Peace Prize!

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

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      Gaasp!

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