Are we going to halt this Bronze Age collapse or what, Minoans?
Is there a word for something that’s not racist but feels racist?
Normalize it!
Submitted 5 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Stop being such a Peleset.
manucode@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Brigands and thief (both from around 1400) stand out from this list as a little too modern
Eczpurt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not your friend… you brigand.
That one’s going to sting.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What if I call you Shekelesh?
Eczpurt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re going to get the populace riled up talking like that.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Never go against a Shekelesh when life is on the line.
MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This image just screams “AI-generated”.
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Oh no, the meme half covered in white text is generated by AI. Anyways.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 months ago
I am shocked and appalled that the maker didn’t use a real selfie from Minoa
ReCursing@kbin.social 5 months ago
If your reasons for hating an ai genned image are anything other than it not being very good, you are wrong
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Is that a Roman soldier in Egypt?
snooggums@midwest.social 5 months ago
Yeah, why would that be strange?
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Idk, the look of it all feels off. Like the AI got the eras mixed up
Hegar@kbin.social 5 months ago
It looks like it's supposed to be more greek, since the romans weren't known for fighting naked, whereas we think 'greek' and we think shirtless. Also romans weren't involved in egypt in any serious way till much later. Whereas the 'sea peoples' seem to come from roughly the sphere of mycenean influence, even if they don't all seem 'greek'.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I’m loving the mutated statues in the background
Hegar@kbin.social 5 months ago
The Mycenian Greeks probably wrestled control of Crete from the Minoans ~300 before the late bronze age collapse of greek and hittite power.
Cultural elements and settlements of these "Eteocretans" remained, I don't think the Minoans were in any place to halt anything at that point. During the period we call collapse they seem to have been doing a lot of fleeing into the mountains.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Man how fucking wild would it be if we suddenly just found a super isolated village of Minoans like those Cappadocian greeks that only recently re-established contact with society because of how remote they were
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They prefer to be called seamen
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The Chinese word for foreigner is Sea Person
Blackout@kbin.run 5 months ago
Don't forget jormash, likituki, didibutuki, weewam and splughhhr.
stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I want ne’er-do-well to make a comeback.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
I recognize the Sea Peoples. I have an article open on my phone with new research on them that I need to go back and read. I’m really good at opening links to things I want to read later and then letting them accumulate.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Dafuq is a weshwesh supposed to be
Skua@kbin.social 5 months ago
Weshesh, one of the groups Ramesses III said he defeated when the Sea Peoples attacked Egypt. As far as I know, though, they're one of the groups that we have basically no other mentions or evidence of, so we have no idea who they were
ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 months ago
Maybe the earliest example of, "You should see the other guy!"
ailepet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
There’s one meaning I know of “weshwesh” and it’s definitively pretty racist source: am French and also Arab