• deHaga@feddit.uk
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    6 days ago

    And? The Beakers wiped out 90% of the Neolithic people. The Irish are the purist Beaker people, and they committed the worst genocide in European history.

    Imperialism is enlightened in comparison.

      • deHaga@feddit.uk
        12·
        6 days ago

        It’s historic fact. If I have to account for my dead ancestors, then so do they

        • Raven8628@lemmy.zip
          11·
          6 days ago

          Except it isnt an historic fact because the Beakers didnt “wipe them out”. They were absorbed into Beaker culture over hundreds of years due to migration.

          And Beaker is a cultural phenomenon, not a race of people. Those Beaker people on the island of Ireland were not necessarily genetically related to those on the continent.

          And even if they did wipe them out, the Beakers were not a single unified people under one flag and one leader like the Brits. Why would people living far off on an island off the west coast of Europe have anything to do with the actions of people on the continent just because they make similiar pottery?

          Your comparison is ridiculous.

              • deHaga@feddit.uk
                11·
                6 days ago

                No, the beakers wiped out the Neolithic people. Largest European genocide in history.

                The Irish are the purest genetic descendants of the Beakers.

                • Raven8628@lemmy.zip
                  1·
                  6 days ago

                  Largest European genocide in history.

                  Then provide a source that shows that the genocide you made up by the Beaker Empire you made up was larger than the holocaust.

                  • deHaga@feddit.uk
                    1·
                    6 days ago

                    We document this phenomenon most clearly in Britain, where the spread of the Beaker complex introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry and was associated with the replacement of approximately 90% of Britain’s gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the east-to-west expansion that had brought steppe-related ancestry into central and northern Europe over the previous centuries.

                    https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/129642