this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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[–] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I was mocking the attitude that something can't be discovered by one group of people if a different group of people already knew about it.

Columbus discovering the Americas is commonly called a "euro-centric definition of discovery". While conveniently ignoring that literally nobody in Europe knew the Americas existed.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

That's fair, that can annoy me too occasionally.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)