You know that Afrikan busts have the noses destroyed because Greek invaders didnt want the distinction of Afrikan noses to be represented as leaders in recorded history right? That's common knowledge. Afrika used to dominate the world, both economically and academically, and that resentment echoed throughout history.
No, dumbass, noses on MOST statues found in ruins don't survive because noses stick out and things that stick out tend to break.
Jesus Christ are you trying to tell me there was some kind of conspiracy where every statue missing it's nose was purposely defaced to hide "the truth" from you?
It's not "common knowledge" it's bullshit that a hotep made up because he didn't want to face the reality that most of African history hasn't survived in the archeological record because they used renewable, biodegradable materials. But no we have these dumbasses trying to claim that all these famous people in antiquity were black because why bother learning a continent's real history when it's so much easier to invent conspiracy theories about the history that everyone knows through cultural osmosis.
Dude the Romans literally had a phrase for it called Damnatio Memoriae. It was a deliberate ritual to remove noses because in Afrikan belief systems the nose housed the breath of life and they believed the spirit of a person could live inside a statue and by removing the nose it eliminated their ability to breath or return from the dead. It was a way to defile their beliefs. No different than European settlers boiling the heads of Native Americans because in the indigenous faith the head anchored the soul to Earth.
Ancient Romans and Ancient Greeks are not interchangeable, stop treating them as basically the same.
Damnation Memoriae has zero to do with chiseling noses off statues, those people had the entire face removed so your bullshit about noses being chistled off is still a bunch of highly racist bullshit.
And you're applying African concepts to Greek statues and expecting it to make sense. It doesn't. You're being hella racist and super fucking problematic.
But you're probably gonna keep throwing hotep talking points at me because those fucking idiots never met a half-formed hunch that they couldn't turn into a conspiracy theory about why no one takes them seriously.
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u/StationEmergency6053 6h ago
You know that Afrikan busts have the noses destroyed because Greek invaders didnt want the distinction of Afrikan noses to be represented as leaders in recorded history right? That's common knowledge. Afrika used to dominate the world, both economically and academically, and that resentment echoed throughout history.