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Frexulfe t1_ja889m2 wrote

Reply to comment by Perpetual_Doubt in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus

I think you are wrong (read it like a person to person comment, not a horrible furious scream in the internet).

AFAIK, there has been a real propagandistic push agains Spain and Catholics from UK and others. The theory is mostly accepted, only aspects of the theory are debated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_(Spain)

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kimthealan101 t1_ja87i1n wrote

Reply to comment by ChrisARippel in TIL John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was arrested and tried for merely teaching the theory of evolution in 1925. by JesusLikesHisCheezIt

Eugenics is how you say 'racist' in intellectual society. It is still present in intellectual society. It is easy to subconsciously project your values onto the things you study. Much of what we think about eqyptian mummies and pyramids is based on 18th and 19th century ideas about death in European society.

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turkeysandwich1982 t1_ja86uoh wrote

Reply to TIL John Scopes, a high school teacher in Tennessee, was arrested and tried for merely teaching the theory of evolution in 1925. by JesusLikesHisCheezIt

I remember reading the book about it, Summer of the Gods, several years ago, great book by the way, and I remember thinking it was funny that during the trial there were souvenir stands that sprung up around the courthouse with people trying to sell stuffed monkeys and other tat.

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