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creativedragonbaby
· 2 years ago
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The people who were apparently living in Antarctica: Huh?
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dr_richard_ew
· 2 years ago
The penguins who were living in Antarctica: hjonk
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bethorien
· 2 years ago
words have meaning, this is just twisting the meaning of the word discover. Nothing about the word discover means no one else ever knew the information before. If it did the term "first discovered" would be redundant and yet it's very widely used in historical contexts, specifically for referencing which culture or inventor or scientist was the first to know a thing. This is also basically the only context you'll ever seen anyone being confidently incorrect with pedantry over this specific word, if someone said "recently i discovered that my husband was cheating on me" no one is going to look at that and say "well you used discover incorrectly because both the husband and the mistress already knew the information that he was cheating so you can't have discovered that."
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funkmasterrex
· 2 years ago
People always living on lands colonized? No. It took migrations for people to show up parts of Africa, Europe, the Americas, Indo-Pacific and Australia. This is just dumb.
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guest_
· 2 years ago
That could be just more semantics or poor word choice by the original writer. “Always” is one of those words that when taken in absolute- like most absolutes, is seldom ever correct. There’s also a limit to what we can say in rebuttal- when discussing early human and pre modern human migration and habitation- we have shreds of ancient evidence and we can say what we THINK explains the evidence we have and the genetic distributions we see etc- but so much is lost to history that we don’t have a super clear picture that isn’t one we’ve mostly drawn using “connect the dots.” It’s possible the person is using hyperbole and primarily referring to more recent history such as European colonization and events pertaining especially to the Americas and pacific islands etc. although… the hash tag “migration is propaganda” could actually mean this person believes that people just appeared out of nowhere simultaneously everywhere humans currently inhabit… so perhaps it isn’t hyperbole….
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