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ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 1 day ago

Robert F Kennedy Jr. says Arabs don’t produce science or literature

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Robert F Kennedy Jr. says Arabs don’t produce science or literature

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ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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US Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr. has said that Arabs don’t produce science, literature, or win Nobel prizes.
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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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    Unsurprisingly, he doesn’t know algebra

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      You have to learn Arabic numerals fist.

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        That’s exactly what Barack Hussein Obama would want you to do!

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        I will only learn the american ones.

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          …so I told that dumbass (most people don’t know there’s a B in dumb) kindergarten teacher: “I don’t need to learn no alphabet. The only letters I need to know are U, S, and A!”

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      Unsurprisingly, he doesn’t know shit.

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      You mean Al-jabr

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    From: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-health-chief-rfk-jr-faces-widespread-rebuke-over-his-anti-arab-remarks-2026-10-27/

    “There’s 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don’t produce science, they don’t win the Nobel Prize, they don’t win the Fields prize, they don’t win ⁠the Wolf Prize, they don’t produce literature,” the US health chief said.

    Arabs have won all those prizes. Peter Hotez, who is a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and specializes in vaccine development and tropical medicine, said his late colleague, Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zewail, who was Arab and died in 2016, “would disagree” with the US health chief’s comments.

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      Oh so he’s just racist

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        Worse, he’s a Nazi racist, complete with eugenics obsession.

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        Give him some credit. He’s a fucking moron, too

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      2025 Chemistry Nobel Winner was from Jordan.

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      Since 2015 we don’t hide our racism anymore! I mean of course we say we aren’t racist, but every other thing is okay to say.

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        I might use a hard R, but at least I’m not racist …

        /s cause satire isn’t real anymore.

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      Bold of him to being up the Nobel Prize. When his boss hears that term he instantly throws a full-on toddler hissy fit.

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      they don’t win ⁠the Wolf Prize

      Almost sure it’s true

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        What the hell is the wolf prize? I never heard of it.

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          Israeli Noble prize

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            That tracks

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    GET THE ARABIC NUMERALS OUT OF OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM

    -Some of them. Actually.

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      Along with the pronouns

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      “It’s time to go back to runes!”

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        The funny thing about runes is they’re based on the Roman alphabet.

        Those shit eating barbarians didn’t discover writing until it was forced on them by Mediterranean cultures~

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          IT WAS A ROMAN SALUTE 🫡

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        Based on the ultima runes! By Richard Garriott.

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    It’s almost like conservatives are dumb as fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

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    Uh what? lol.

    Apparently, this satirical news: Mamdani to introduce rules requiring schools to teach ‘Arabic numerals’ pissed a bunch of people off.

    It’s ridiculous, obviously, but some people are far more racist than rational.

    Where the absolute blue fuck do these people think mathematics came from? I’ll wait.

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      Blue-eyed, blond-haired American Jesus.

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        Obviously.

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      I heard Trump talked about wanting to change “Arabic Numerals” to “American Numerals.”

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        Ffs don’t say that out loud.

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      Caucasia?

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        Definitely not describing people who originated in the Caucasus. /s

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    So… algebra, alchemy, algorithms, all that cool stuff that kind of formed the building blocks of modern science and math are just… what, fantasy concepts?

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    Jesus fucking christ he’s embarrassing.

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    He really is up there with some of the dumbest people ever

    Mesopotamia is known as the “cradle of civilization” and made significant contributions to science and technology, including the invention of writing, mathematics, and advanced irrigation systems. They also developed early astronomy and created the first calendar based on lunar cycles.

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    If someone wants to show how wrong he is about Arabs not winning Nobel prizes it’s better to name modern day Arab Nobel prize laureates like Ahmed Hassan Zewail, Naguib Mahfouz or Omar Mwannes Yaghi than to talk about Arabic numerals or algebra. Just saying.

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    Its really surprising to hear him say that, considering how deep his boss is in the pockets of the Saudi Royal family…

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    Also, we need to stop teaching Arabic numbers in school! /s

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    Love when the cult of the antivaxxed hold this guy up as their best and brightest, just the dumb leading the dumber.

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      Ow! I stabbed out both my eyes for god! Follow me to the truth!

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    Brainworm asshole spouts more lies.

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    Fuck you. I can easily name Al-Battani who’s work contributed to the development of science in the 10th century.

    EDIT: Yes, I can only name them thanks to Star Trek, but the point stands!

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      Careful, they have labeled Al-gebra a terrorist organization.

      The concept of zero is a woke mind virus.

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        IRL lol

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    I thought this was the onion. This is real? What’s the opposite of eating the onion? Crying?

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      Reverse Poe’s Law

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