IgnoranceI once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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I was just enjoying a few drinks, propping up the bar.The girl serving seemed to take a shine to me for some reason, and once her shift finished, came and joined me.
Told me that black people invented everything. Maths, science, music, art - everything.
She told me it the whites stole it from them.
I asked her about Mozart (thief), Einstein (Jewish, so technically black), Hawking (thief), Turing (duh!), Botticelli (Italian, Mediterranean, thus originally black), Brunel (*spit*) ...
Which was nice.
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 15:11,
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and so you confirmed her analysisSo it seems that she was alluding to the cradle of humanity being in what is now Africa so that she was probably correct in her rather bold statement and the people you lovingly categorise who appear several millenia later and are not of African origin (in the modern sense of the word) merely confirm that some white people have done rather well at something started by black people. In the same way that lots of non-white people have also done something very well too. Not sure yours is the killer argument.
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Hmm.Where does that leave the "multiple Eves" theory?
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Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 16:15,
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Isn't that sort of reductive reasoning going to lead to a collective agreement that amoeba invented everything?
If she was drawing a distinction (by using 'black' as a class) then it does actually have to be distinct ie. if she meant black and all those of probable black origin rather than black as opposed to white etc. The former is not really an argument so doesn't need stating, the latter is and is also fairly easily refutable, n'est ce pas?
Bear in mind she claimed that 'whites stole it'.
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number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 31 Aug 2012, 8:52,
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did you shag her then?
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