The Black Death Is Racist.

[webbo3]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67472933

[ToraToraTora]

Perlease!

[Old_Geezer]

Oh is the BBC now using that stupid American term for those rainbow people ? Such a shame. Another woke nail in theirs.

 

I guess there had to be a reason they called it the Death of Colour then.

[barry1010]

35000 people are known to have died because of this plague but this was a study of 145 indivuals.  My maths is not great but this is not a representative, substantial sample.

[andy-hughes]

Stating that people of colour were more likely to die of a disease is not 'racism' - it's a medical fact.

Racism, by definition, has to indicate a belief that people of colour are inferior for a variety of reasons, and there is no evidence of that in your link.

You are looking for trouble where none exists.

[webbo3]

The bbc are looking for or creating trouble where none existed

[youngmafbog]

Its the Biased Broadcasting Corporation saying it AH, first or second para in the link.  Did you read it?

[barry1010]

The BBC is reporting a study by the academics at the Museum of London, other news outlets have reported it, too, including The Guardian.  They have not financed the study.

[bazwillrun]

Ahh, the museum of London...is that the same museum that recently depicted in one of its exhibts a typical London family of i think it was around a thoudsand or so years ago, as having a black female as the mother of the family, that museum ?...

[webbo3]

That will be the one.

[juliecarlstan]

Well, Old_Geezer, i dont know what Stupid American Term your referring to?

I thought Black Death was the Bubonic Pleague? And I'm still American. 

[sp1814]

Bazwillrun

 

Do you have a link?

[sp1814]

webbo3

 

If you re-read the article, it's not suggesting the plague itself was racist.

 

 

[bazwillrun]

^

It was a video by Simon Webb on the History Debunked channel....

[ToraToraTora]

AH: "Stating that people of colour were more likely to die of a disease is not 'racism' - it's a medical fact." - I think the OP is making the slightly satirical observation that the pathogen itself is racist.

[bazwillrun]

hers the link  re museum of london, i was out on the years ...makes no difference though to the jist of it..


 

[sp1814]

bazwillrun

No thanks - not a link to a YouTube video (with the spurious claim that a typical Roman Londoner was a young, black single mother. 

Here's what the museum actually presented:

https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/surprising-diversity-roman-london-docklands

 

[sp1814]

...and it's spelled 'gist'.

 

;-)

[bazwillrun]

oh dear a spelling nastie...predictive text, but you would have guessed that ...you know theyre struggling when they have to pick you up on spelling..i wont waste my breath on you but i knew the YT link would get you going , too much truth on that channel for your liking and links and references to back it all up...

[Peter Pedant]

er written by a member of the cabinet - doesnt understand the stats

145 dead bods is too few to make this sort of conclusion

make a good essay =about the biasses involved

members of one family, area, failed type I error ( difference detected when there isnt one) - selection of the buried

[sp1814]

No bazwillrun - have a look at what was presented.
 

You claim that the museum "depicted in one of its exhibts a typical London family of i think it was around a thoudsand or so years ago, as having a black female as the mother of the family, that museum"

 

id suggest you believe that because you've relied on a faulty narrative. The first thing I would've done after watching that YT clip would've been to go to the museum's website to verify the claim.

 

Did you?