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_tapirrider
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A good read for bofmgeograpy

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Hey bofmgeography, your mound builder preaching is racist.
http://ampersand.wustl.edu/archaeologic ... and-hoaxes
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tapirrider wrote:Hey bofmgeography, your mound builder preaching is racist.
http://ampersand.wustl.edu/archaeologic ... and-hoaxes


GREAT article, tapirrider!
Fritz says, “Until the 1890s, most Americans, including members of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences and learned people across the world, believed that there had been a non-Native-American mound-builder race. And that was inherently a racist notion that the Native Americans were too savage, too barbaric, and too lazy to have built the Mississippian mounds and all the other spectacular mounds in eastern North America. You can get quotes from all over the place that the Native Americans were incapable. There was even a state geologist of Illinois who wrote that the mounds were natural glacial features and that they had nothing to do with Native Americans. So that’s a very solid example of racism.”


I think it's unfortunate that bofmgeography probably likes that his theories are racist. I think he has a belief that Native Americans were just not smart enough to accomplish the things that they obviously did accomplish.

Irrespective of undeniable evidence, he likes to believe that someone else did the work. "I don't care if it's true, it's what I believe."
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Quasimodo wrote:GREAT article, tapirrider!

Agreed. Gail Fritz provided some very useful observations, such as:
Gayle Fritz wrote: I’m of the view that you don’t get to wisdom very easily,--
and,
Gayle Fritz wrote:-- just getting to knowledge from information is very difficult, actually. It requires a certain discipline of mind, ---.

And to get from knowledge to wisdom requires judgement - a reasoned weighing of the relevant objective evidence.

These skills would seem to be in short supply among folks like bomgeo, as reflected in their unfounded beliefs - beliefs maintained against overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
David Hume: "---Mistakes in philosophy are merely ridiculous, those in religion are dangerous."

DrW: "Mistakes in science are learning opportunities and are eventually corrected."
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On another thread we are seeing people designating themselves the "alt-right" using Book of Mormon-based racism to justify their white supremacist Mormon ideas. Polygamy, racism, cultic countercultures. What wonderful fruits. :sad:
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Maksutov wrote:On another thread we are seeing people designating themselves the "alt-right" using Book of Mormon-based racism to justify their white supremacist Mormon ideas. Polygamy, racism, cultic countercultures. What wonderful fruits. :sad:

and - don't forget - amway
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