We need a total and complete shutdown of all Ivy League anthropology departments until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/1764725547827859605
Interesting that Viking battle-axes used to rape and pillage defenceless seaside villages are fetishised by some Scandanavians/Europeans/Americans today as “rad” and “totally awesome as fuck” – that’s truly sick.
And, it is probably part of the broader psychological denial of the gruesome history of bloody violence, on which modern Western capitalist hegemony is founded. 
How can you be an anthropology and Asian studies professor, see these frilly edges and the ornamentation and the fact that it is made from fucking jade and think “yeah, the ancestors of the evil Chinese CeeCeePee absolutely used these to behead people”?
Tapping the sign again…
One of my fav communism quotes ✨
it’s actually oxidized bronze, not that that supports a beheading usecase, it’d still suck for that.
looking up the viability of jade weaponry was kind of interesting though, they’ve found some axes & knifes, it’s supposed to be a very hard rock—so you probably could make an execution tool out of it.
actually exactly what i was thinking lmao
Jade was valued for its malleability, similar to gold in that way. There were all sorts of ceremonial weapons made out of jade, for instance a jade saber would be awarded to distinguished scholars.
I’ve seen many historic jade clubs that were used by Maori in the museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_(weapon)
Beheading the locals with a butter knife
How can anyone look at any ornamental weapon and assume it’s used for anything other than looking nice? The only ceremonial weapons that I know about that were used as killing implements were sometimes frou-frou fancy boys would have elaborately engraved flintlock pistols.
Nick Cage used the fuck out of his gold-plated pistols in Face/Off, checkmate anthropologists
why bother working or caring about intellectual honesty when you can just parrot the latest state department line and fail upwards? Nation of grifters and thieves
If you’re an anthropologist and you want to get a job that pays out of college your options are becoming a mercenary for empire or bank robbery. There’s a lot of scum in the profession.
Because it has probably been literal decades since they did any actual research outside of stewing themselves in newspaper articles.
Fuck being a professor, how can you have even the most superficial idea of how an axe works and think this thing was actually used to chop things?
You mean professional blood libeler.