Systems of education and its discontents

I was replying to a pair of comments, which were complaining (on a space history video), that Egyptology was a completely unscientific “vendetta.”

I explained that I am not an Egyptologist, but it seems scientific to me. Of course, it’s dealing with human beings, across thousands of years, so no one person can be an expert on the whole field.

I think discussed Champollion’s interpretation of Egyptian hieroglyphics, and how that’s been tested every time Egyptologists use this to translate texts, and then various chronological theories, and how these are tested by comparing them with the inscriptions, and with matching pottery types elsewhere, and with C14 dating.

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Wait… how is it a “vendetta”?! People are WEIRD!

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They didn’t explain.

I assume it’s because Egyptologists won’t support ancient aliens bullterpretations of Egyptian origins.

(As we know from Futurama, most of the influence went the other way.)

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Ugh… that old bit of racism… “brown and Black people couldn’t possibly build such a long-standing and successful civilization! It must be ALIENS!!!”

Notice how no one every says that about Europe.

Also…

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Just like the US spent the latter half of the 20th century offshoring the most dangerous, damaging, horrible jobs to the rest of the world, and our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that.

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I knew there was a reason I dropped my membership with AHA… they remain a garbage organization that does jack all to help historians.

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Sometimes people’s indifference shocks me.

Hey Kids! No more Barney for you!

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PragerU needs to die in a fire. They are not educational, they are propaganda bullshit, period, full stop. Young Earth creationism, “slavery was actually pretty cool,” white supremacy, and so on. I don’t know that they have done any pro-pedophile work, but it would not surprise me.

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The youtuber Zoe Bee writes on education a good bit and has done several indepth videos on PragerU…

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By Jove, I think he’s right!

(Or maybe left…)

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