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Did I just red pill a BLM supporter /pol/?
>be in my math study group
>one girl in the group is a typical BLM activist. black, dreads, always manages to bring up race
>annoying as fuck, but otherwise nice
>group is talking about their majors
>i mention how i'm a history major and how much i love what i'm studying
>BLM girl gives me a look
>"i hate history. its depressing to me because i'm black. did you know right now is the best time to be black in history? and it still sucks"
>usually i ignore her but she's so far off here i can't contain myself
>tell her that thats complete bullshit. tell her in the 16th century the west african kingdoms weren't so bad off. bring up ethiopia and axum
>"yeah but europeans still came and fucked them. europeans were always racist"
>explain to her that racism is basically a bi-product of the slave trade and europeans and africans had an equal trading relationship before the slave trade exploded.
>"well i get what you're talking about. egypt was in africa so they were advanced"
>i actually lol'd. tell her the egyptians weren't black
>she's shocked
>she literally thought cleopatra was black
>tell her they're pre-arab mediterranean people. contact with sub-saharan africa but not actually "black" cleopatra was greek anyway
>she's actually interested. starts talking about she didn't know any of this stuff
>asks me more and more questions about actual history and not the bullshit memes she's read
>i recommend some decent academic books about slavery.
>she actually thanks me for helping her understand history
>mfw
Anyway, red pilling stories thread
>be in my math study group
>one girl in the group is a typical BLM activist. black, dreads, always manages to bring up race
>annoying as fuck, but otherwise nice
>group is talking about their majors
>i mention how i'm a history major and how much i love what i'm studying
>BLM girl gives me a look
>"i hate history. its depressing to me because i'm black. did you know right now is the best time to be black in history? and it still sucks"
>usually i ignore her but she's so far off here i can't contain myself
>tell her that thats complete bullshit. tell her in the 16th century the west african kingdoms weren't so bad off. bring up ethiopia and axum
>"yeah but europeans still came and fucked them. europeans were always racist"
>explain to her that racism is basically a bi-product of the slave trade and europeans and africans had an equal trading relationship before the slave trade exploded.
>"well i get what you're talking about. egypt was in africa so they were advanced"
>i actually lol'd. tell her the egyptians weren't black
>she's shocked
>she literally thought cleopatra was black
>tell her they're pre-arab mediterranean people. contact with sub-saharan africa but not actually "black" cleopatra was greek anyway
>she's actually interested. starts talking about she didn't know any of this stuff
>asks me more and more questions about actual history and not the bullshit memes she's read
>i recommend some decent academic books about slavery.
>she actually thanks me for helping her understand history
>mfw
Anyway, red pilling stories thread
