In can’t tell if this is a Measurehead parody done in poor taste, or an actual phrenologist. I’m leaning heavily to the former, not even Nazis are that blatant anymore.

[–] alternative_factor@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I feel like it's probably an actual phrenologist because he implies dutch white people were created by Yakub which is really down the black supremacist rabbit hole.

Edit: youtube video on the subject
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxf_6A7IT9E

[–] bermuda 14 points 1 year ago

I had to read some actual phrenologist papers from the late 1800s/early 1900s for a college class I took on racism and wow it is some WILD shit. Like the base level is the skull measurements but a lot of those crackpots tried to rope in literally every academic and religious subject they could.

Also fun fact the guy who my university department was originally named after believed that black people weren't just unintelligent but that melanin made your skull a different shape which also made you less intelligent. It was only found out after some of his diaries were sold at auction. School was named after him for like 70 years.

[–] HerrPapAbstrich@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

What's the saying? A broken click is right twice a day?

[–] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

I've been rewatching a lot of Futurama lately so I read that last response in Dr. Zoidberg's voice and now I can't get over how well it fits.

[–] outer_spec@lemmy.studio 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

briish this, frnch that. it’s time for the d*tch to enter the spotlight

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

[–] ShaggyDemiurge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm hoping to get an asylum in Netherlands later this year, and a lot of memes about it fill me with dread

[–] ashley@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to be honest I think the Netherlands is an amazing country, and I would love to visit one day! it's just that their language is so strange and odd imo

[–] ShaggyDemiurge@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Learning it in Duolingo right now - I'll have to know it at some level to get citizenship later - and it really is weird

[–] Ejh3k@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

It really is an ugly language. English, French and German, all smashed together with all sorts of extra vowels.

[–] boo_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

It was genuinely funny until he brought up Yakub, but that's honestly really cringe at least