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nobody thinks Einstein was beneath us because he didn't have an iPhone

if something "shouldn't exist" in a time period it has nothing to do with judging those people as inferiors, its simply the timeline of the development of technology (or our misconception thereof)



For those of us who study culture, this is absolutely a thing. Its called pseudoarchaeology and it has always been very popular with White Supremacists.

https://entangledstates.org/2021/10/05/the-connection-betwee...

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pseudoarchaeology-racism...

https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-r...

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.364.6436.110

Also, Even today white supremacists think Einstein was a fraud:

https://christiansfortruth.com/albert-einstein-plagiarist-an...

But that is harder to believe than "Dumb Egyptians couldn't make pyramids, so aliens did it..."


Einstein is a bad example cause he was very recent also.




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