• lime!@feddit.nu
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    45
    ·
    5 days ago

    paracetamol was synthesized in 1877. use a real argument, like the left-handedness graph.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      5 days ago

      Italian immigrants in the 20s were proven feeble minded by US cutting edge science that gave them IQ tests in English.

        • Fuck u/spez@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          13
          ·
          5 days ago

          Someone can refresh my memory, but didn’t they used to force left handed children to write with their right hands because something something satanic forces?

          • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            5 days ago

            Yes, and the graph reflects that. The visible prevalence of left handedness increased when we stopped trying to beat the demons out of left handed children. Teachers would beat kids’ knuckles with a yardstick if they caught them writing with their left hands.

            It’s not that there were suddenly more left handed people; Those people had always existed, but got beat until they used their right hand instead. When we stopped beating them, they became more visible.

          • lime!@feddit.nu
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            5 days ago

            the latin word for right is “dexter”, as in “ambidextrous”. the latin word for left is “sinister”. you do the math numerology.

        • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          5 days ago

          My wife is Gen-X from eastern Europe (cold war era for those not getting the timeline). She was born left handed but that was considered to be such a bad thing that they forced her to use her right hand for everything. So now she has this mishmash where she does things she grew up with like using a fork, writing, etc. with her left hand, new things (teen+ years) like basketball with the left, and others like Tennis with both.

          It isn’t that left handed people didn’t exist, its that they were “corrected”.