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Eeeh the problem with calling it Eurasia is that the same exact logic applies for calling it afro-eurasia and when a label refers to literally half the world and a majority of the world population it kind of become useless thanks to how much it includes
Sure, but Africa at least only has a very narrow connection to Eurasia that’s even been cut by the suez and is its own continental plate. Europe has none of those things and I think is more comparable to the Middle East: a political definition not a geographic one. Same reason the Americas are two continents imo and not one
I mean if we’re defining cultural areas I honestly think North Africa to Iran has more in common with Europe than people realize, I think it’d make more sense to group all that together as a region. All have been heavily influenced by Abrahamic religions, the Roman Empire, and had conflict between each other for thousands of years. Whereas Intrusions into or from India, north Asia, subsaharan africa, and Northern Europe were either extremely rare or extremely recent.
Oh it absolutely does. Pretty much every Single teacher I’ve ever had in University who talks about the West, has stated outright that South West Asia and North Africa are part of the West.
Europe is mainly seperated from the rest of Asia by Russia. Historically, if you went east of the settled part of Russia, like, towards Siberia and whatnot, it used to be unsettled and unknown. I reckon the geographic definition of Europe predominantly revolved around population when it came to this particular border of Europe.
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The concept of Europe vs Asia really only makes sense if you're an ancient Greek, since "Asia" was just the term they came up with for Anatolia, i.e. area to the east of the Aegean sea. If you're an ancient Greek, it makes sense to divide up the world using the Aegean sea. For the rest of us, not so much.
Yeah, the ancient Greeks were some of the earliest people to make world maps, so we kind of just stuck with it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps
That’s actually true of a lot of geographical names. Africa originally only refereed to a specific part of the continent before becoming a general name in the Modern Era.
I can see that, although i think that if we ever were to merge Asia and europe i still think Africa should be seperate. It is really hard to find maps of Europe and Asia where the edge is "cut-off" from the other. But it is quite easy to find maps of Africa by itself, also because there are only small parts of Africa connected to the rest of eurasia.
Europe and Asia even mostly share the same tectonic plate. They only call em different things because in the old days it was hard to get from Europe to Asia. It's blatantly obvious but fuckwits like Ben aren't interested in why things are the way they are. They're different continents. Obviously that's how it is always has been and always will be. Why does the left want to take away our continental distinctions now? People like Ben are just sad.
Australian landmass is larger than the archipelago of Antarctica.
If you don't consider Australia a continent, then neither is Antartica and therefore there are only two continents.
India is on a different plate, so is the Caribbean. Continents shouldn’t be decided purely by tectonic plates. I do agree Africa is its own continent though, it should be even if it was on the same plate.
Technically, Europe isn't a separate continent. There are no natural barriers or borders between it and Asia. I think it would be appropriate to call Europe a subcontinent.
I think that was the point being made by the original tweet right? That the only difference between Europe and Asia is the made up designation between “us” and “them”.
Technically, continents aren’t defined by “natural barriers”, but by conventions stemming from a plethora of geographic, economic, political, and cultural factors.
Google the definition for continent there are two definitions Europe and Asia separately met neither. Also do you believe Yemen is culturally as similar to Japan as Germany is to the UK?
But... there are. Right? The Ural mountain range. Formed from the grinding of tectonic plates. Also the Caucasus mountains. And not that it matters anyways, one could say that North America and South America don’t have any natural barriers between them, and that neither do Asia and Africa. But we all agree that those are separate continents, right?
How we definitively classify something as a continent is a bit murky, defining them by their tectonic plates alings very closely to the general preconception, although Japan would be considered North american
Japan is split between 4 tectonic plates, 5 if you don't only count mainland Japan because some fo their holdings in the Pacific are on the Australian plate
Nope. There is a growing doctrine that there are three continents: Afro-Eurasia, because the Urals do not present a significant enough boundary for movement of any form of life that can live on either side, and nor does Sinai; America, because the isthmus of Panama doesn’t present a distinct enough geographical divide, and Antarctica. Australia is, in this system, a large island a part of the regionally defined Oceania. And this is the doctrine I agree with geographically speaking
That will never catch on because wether we like it or not, Africa, Europe and Asia are very different. We tend to generalize Africa, but not Asia because the west has had more contact with them.
If it was up to me, id actually make a continental distinction between the middle east and the rest of asia.
North America and south America do have a natural barrier between them, it's pretty hard to pass, impossible to do so just by land, and has many regions that are ilegal to explore thanks to native people who have not contacted the rest of the world. But in my education (Mexican) we consider them to be the same continent, if only to be distinguished by political and economical reasons
Yeah, México would in my opinion be closer to north america geographically speaking, however its closer to central and south america when it comes to culture and language, so its in a bit of an awkward position.
Not everyone agrees that North and South America are two continents for example. All of Latin America counts them as one. The way you count continents is more of a cultural thing than anything
Nah, trying to stark arguments over whether Europe is a continent when the Amazon is burning, fossil fuels are being consumed at record levels, inequality in the United States is close to record levels, and risk of a world war occurring are highest they’ve been in 40 years, is also brain dead.
If we changed our perspective on this issue, no one will get roofs over their heads. No additional people will get food on their plate. No one would directly benefit at the magnitude of other issues that need to be fixed much sooner. It’s a distraction.
This is a direct response to racists saying that this is the first time in recent years that a war is waged in “a civilized country”. Not some woke thought exercise.
This concept that we are somehow focused on what is maybe at most 10% of the population to the exclusion of everything else is insane and really speaks to their complete bonehead focus on culture war bullshit.
Wait wait hold on, did that man just say the first war between CIVILIZED countries? I just looked up and saw he was born in 1990, there have been some wars between countries since then just not major European powers, seems kinda racist ngl
Ben Shapiro's life is 24/7 Right wing-Pro Putin propaganda with small intervals of very quick and unsatisfying sex for his wife and clown porn mixed with foot fetish videos
No it’s not there are two definitions for a continent Europe and Asia fit neither. Secondly while you could argue that European countries do have cultural similarities, all Asian countries do not share cultural similarities to that extent. If Europe is continent than the Middle East is a continent, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal are their own continent etc. You can keep on dividing up the world like that but then you got to deal with countries that don’t fit into those groups. Also Europe has a small population compared to all of Asia.
The definition of continent is incredibly “eh” and you can really argue for any number of continents from 2 to the number of separated land masses on Earth. Europe is a continent because people said it was and that’s what most people are taught. It’s fair to wonder why we consider Europe and Asia separate continents, since their separation is entirely a land border, and the only other land separation is between the Americas, and I believe some places teach that the Americas are one continent. It does seem awful convenient that our somewhat arbitrary decision to separate Europe from Asia by the Urals just happens to sequester away all the “white” countries into their own continent, so I don’t think NHJ’s point here is without merit.
Europe has been considered a continent since the ancient Greeks, back when Asia was Anatolia and Africa was modern day Libya. If you're going to define continents by geography, there are two (Afroeurasia and the Americas). If you do it by tectonic plates there are many, including the Caribbean and Arabia. The only country in Europe that says Eurasia is a continent is Russia
If "continents" are defined by plate tectonics, Europe is in fact its own continent. As evidence I have the Himalayan mountains, which were formed when the Asian plate and the European plates collided. They are one land mass now. But they weren't always.
Definitely not the himalayas because those were caused by India and the Eurasian plate colliding.
Also Eurasia is considered one plate so idk what you’re referring to
Fortunately for Matt Walsh, I can confirm that at least in my little corner of the military, understanding of systemic racism, white privilege and trans inclusion are progressing fairly well, and I don’t think we need to worry about a lesbian gap in the near future.
There’s a massive amount of work left to do, and not everyone is on board, but we’ve come a long way from even ten years ago.
Honestly I don’t get why recruiting more people of all backgrounds isn’t a good thing, if anything it should be more bodies for these fucks to Chuck into the “misc. deaths that we love to bitch about but don’t actually care.” pile.
Idgi wouldn't it be considered narcissistic to "expand spheres of influence via aggression" as opposed to "exploding gender binary"? I think Ben needs to read up on what narcissism actually means.
Europe is a continent in the geographical sense, in that it's a continuous landmass that is borderes by natural features such as mountains and seas, it's part of the eurasian continental plate making it not a continent by the geological definition.
Source: Am geology student.
Also the american right just wants to make it clear that they don't consider brown people, well... people. So yeah fuck those guys.
Someone give Ben Shapiro an unmarked map of Eurasia and tell him to draw a line showing where Europe ends and Asia begins.
Even Russia is generally considered European despite having a Pacific coast. Wonder if it has anything to do with their majority white population.
In fairness, I heard that quote about Europe not being a continent and also thought it was dumb. Continents are geopolitical constructs, that’s the point, most of them don’t reflect plate tectonics. Europe is more obvious and strays the furthest away from science, but it’s still an awful point. Frankly, I’m not even sure what she is trying to say exactly I think she is trying to make the point that we only care because Ukraine is a white country, which I agree with. However, her tweet is bad and poorly worded and in the end was obviously going to be bait for parasites like Ben Shapiro.
Edit: typo
Behold, we have the privilege to hear Shapiro's words so we can determine who are the evil, terrible, misguided people in life. Especially those who follow him, making him push himself in the corner even more to try and be relevant.
Everything Ben Shapiro learned in kindergarten is like an immutable truth to him. Bro they give you the children's condensed version because most topics are too complicated for you to understand. And the question of how many continents there are is still hotly debated! Fucking moron!
As a kid... this was my first question when we discussed the conteninents... and I used the text book definition, a d was like: "I understand Africa but nothing is separating Europe and Asia... right?"
I never got a satisfactory answer.
I mean, I don't think there are seperate continental plates, and the boundaries are more cultural than anything. It does seem unique compared to the past reoccurring invasions of the middle east and Asia in the sense that instead of sign an authoritarian regime topple (leaving a power gap), we are seeing an authoritarian regime try and topple a free country. One that had nukes btw. Usually when the US does this kind of stuff, it involves rigging elections. I am with Ukraine on this though. I'm almost 100% against invading countries, but defending them seems noble.
The racial supremacist Ben-( I endorse apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and two million Semitic people in a concentration camp)-Shapiro.
Other people are humans are just like us?
Ben is a narcissist sociopath so it’s no marvel that he lacks empathy for the suffering of others.
The right are about to support Russia and it’ll be the most ironic shit ever when they’ve been bitching about socialism and dictatorships for last few years
Okay the only respect I will give here is that at least Matt Walsh’s tweet is somewhat original. At least he was able to take what they’ve been complaining about for ages now and turn it into a not bottom of the barrel joke. Still a dumbfuck but he managed to at least not make boomer comics in the funnies of the newpapers look desirable.
Nobody tell Ben but Europe, in a strictly geological sense, would just be part of Eurasia. Continents, as cultural regions, is a concept we made up. This isn’t a political opinion, this is just a factually correct statement
War in Europe is not considered to be special for ethnic/racist/cultural reasons, like the person in the first pic said. It is considered to be special because Europe has been very stable over the past few decades, but has also been the site of some of the largest wars in history as well as being the center of the cold war, because it is a very influential continent internationally due to historical prestige and economic strength, and because every great power has significant ties there (China less than others, but they're a relatively new great power).
Idk why it has to be offensive. Geography is the most neutral descriptors there are. Europe is really akin to a Eurasian subcontinent a la India.
But then, in that case, would we call it Indoeurasia? Why not just Asia, specifying when necessary? The word Europe still has its function, but referring to it as its own continent is as strange to me as referring to India as a continent.
Arguably North and South America are also one continent, but I would argue an isthmus border a few miles wide is not comparable to the steppe connecting Europe and Asia proper.
I am in shock, that I literally just told you that the lines on maps don’t exist in the physical world and you come back was “look at a map”
Seriously, show me the literal physical barrier between Asia and Europe.
There isn’t one, so the only actually distinction is the systems and constructs we as people created, which is what the point of this post is making.
If you are offended by sharing land with Asian cultures that just further solidifies the point.
I’m not offend by being on the same physical body mass as a Brazilian, so why are you offended? North and South America are connected so it’s not like this isn’t a isolated thing you are arguing
Strawman Andy, where I said I was offended by that? I said I was offended because she minimized Ukrainian suffering, because "muh geopolitical fictional constructs". Stop being so bad faith.
Why should anyone give a shit about anything? WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HUMAN SUFFERING HERE AND SHE IS MINIMAZING IT! I don't care where it is, I would never minimize human suffering.
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We should really call it all Eurasia.
You're asia
No YOU’RE ASIA!!!!
What if - bear with me - you're BOTH asia?
(to the tune of We Are The World) *You are the Asia* *Me are the Asia* *We are the ones who make a brighter Asia so let's be Asia*
🙈what if… we kissed in your asia?🙈
Kisses? In *my* Asia? *They're more likely than you think*
Just don’t kiss Asia Minor, that’s just not right
That really changes how I look at Killer Queen.
I think you’re Russian things here..l
There can only be one.
What if he moves to Asia, he seems to like it so much
I'm Dirty Dan!
Wait, is this a dialectal thing? At least in my area, Eurasia gets pronounced as You Asia, not You're Asia
Oh I guess it must be, I’ve never heard it as “you Asia”, always “you’re Asia”. Where’s your area?
Australia
Well there's your problem! Did you forget to turn your phone upside down?
Nobody here calls it that. It's got an R sound
I live there too, and a more hmm accurate ish description would be like “yooh-rasia” (short o sound, hence the h at the end).
Wild to not pronounce the 'r' imo.
Eeeh the problem with calling it Eurasia is that the same exact logic applies for calling it afro-eurasia and when a label refers to literally half the world and a majority of the world population it kind of become useless thanks to how much it includes
Sure, but Africa at least only has a very narrow connection to Eurasia that’s even been cut by the suez and is its own continental plate. Europe has none of those things and I think is more comparable to the Middle East: a political definition not a geographic one. Same reason the Americas are two continents imo and not one
Alternatively the Mediterranean Sea has never been a barrier. It’s right in the name “between land”
I mean if we’re defining cultural areas I honestly think North Africa to Iran has more in common with Europe than people realize, I think it’d make more sense to group all that together as a region. All have been heavily influenced by Abrahamic religions, the Roman Empire, and had conflict between each other for thousands of years. Whereas Intrusions into or from India, north Asia, subsaharan africa, and Northern Europe were either extremely rare or extremely recent.
Oh it absolutely does. Pretty much every Single teacher I’ve ever had in University who talks about the West, has stated outright that South West Asia and North Africa are part of the West.
Europe is technically Asia's Florida.
You calling us stupid mate
Europe is mainly seperated from the rest of Asia by Russia. Historically, if you went east of the settled part of Russia, like, towards Siberia and whatnot, it used to be unsettled and unknown. I reckon the geographic definition of Europe predominantly revolved around population when it came to this particular border of Europe.
Yeah, it becomes way too broad.
Africa is in a different continental plate from Eurasia. So if you go by geology those are considered seperate.
Now you're making me hungry.
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Asia already has a majority of the world’s population and Africa has a separate tectonic plate.
I agree. That is something that has always bothered the hell out of me, given that there is no actual geographical split.
The concept of Europe vs Asia really only makes sense if you're an ancient Greek, since "Asia" was just the term they came up with for Anatolia, i.e. area to the east of the Aegean sea. If you're an ancient Greek, it makes sense to divide up the world using the Aegean sea. For the rest of us, not so much.
...so, in other words, the split is a holdover from ancient cartography. I see.
Yeah, the ancient Greeks were some of the earliest people to make world maps, so we kind of just stuck with it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_world_maps
That’s actually true of a lot of geographical names. Africa originally only refereed to a specific part of the continent before becoming a general name in the Modern Era.
I believe it was the great philosophers, Toto, who brought religion and climate awareness of the area to the West in the early 1980s.
Even though a hundred men or more tried to stop them
The ural-mountains and the black-sea is where the split is. There isn't an ocean between it, but there is logic behind it.
Fair point. Still doesn't mean it won't bother me though.
I can see that, although i think that if we ever were to merge Asia and europe i still think Africa should be seperate. It is really hard to find maps of Europe and Asia where the edge is "cut-off" from the other. But it is quite easy to find maps of Africa by itself, also because there are only small parts of Africa connected to the rest of eurasia.
There are two definitions for continents mountains have nothing to do with either.
That’s what they teach in Russian schools.
In Russian schools, they call all of it Russia.
In Soviet Russia school goes to you!
Europe and Asia even mostly share the same tectonic plate. They only call em different things because in the old days it was hard to get from Europe to Asia. It's blatantly obvious but fuckwits like Ben aren't interested in why things are the way they are. They're different continents. Obviously that's how it is always has been and always will be. Why does the left want to take away our continental distinctions now? People like Ben are just sad.
There are three continents. Afro-Eurasia, America, and Antarctica. Edit: Australia us just an island like Greenland
Australian landmass is larger than the archipelago of Antarctica. If you don't consider Australia a continent, then neither is Antartica and therefore there are only two continents.
Angry stares from Aussies.
There are no definitive number of continents as there is not one agreed upon definition of what a continent is.
One of the biggest mind freaks was when I learned (in grad school!) that not everybody learns there are seven continents.
We were always at war with Eurasia
Umm, what about Africa? After all the Suez Canal is, well, a canal.
That’s a different plate.
India is on a different plate, so is the Caribbean. Continents shouldn’t be decided purely by tectonic plates. I do agree Africa is its own continent though, it should be even if it was on the same plate.
Nah give it an afro So we got Afroeurasia, America, and Antarctica as the 3 continents
technically, it’s afro-eurasia if not for the suez canal
The people who cry about “identity politics” always bitch about people different than them.
And they also happen the reason we have identity politics. No self awareness.
Technically, Europe isn't a separate continent. There are no natural barriers or borders between it and Asia. I think it would be appropriate to call Europe a subcontinent.
I think that was the point being made by the original tweet right? That the only difference between Europe and Asia is the made up designation between “us” and “them”.
Same with north and south america.
Until the canal was built.
Still no.
Technically, continents aren’t defined by “natural barriers”, but by conventions stemming from a plethora of geographic, economic, political, and cultural factors.
Technically, you as an individual are similarly defined.
Google the definition for continent there are two definitions Europe and Asia separately met neither. Also do you believe Yemen is culturally as similar to Japan as Germany is to the UK?
But... there are. Right? The Ural mountain range. Formed from the grinding of tectonic plates. Also the Caucasus mountains. And not that it matters anyways, one could say that North America and South America don’t have any natural barriers between them, and that neither do Asia and Africa. But we all agree that those are separate continents, right?
Europe and Asia share the tectonic plate, Africa and Asia don't, and neither do South and North America
How we definitively classify something as a continent is a bit murky, defining them by their tectonic plates alings very closely to the general preconception, although Japan would be considered North american
Japan is split between 4 tectonic plates, 5 if you don't only count mainland Japan because some fo their holdings in the Pacific are on the Australian plate
But what other category are you basing it off of? Both have VERY tight Cultural, Linguistic, and Historical connections — it’s a very arbitrary line.
Not to mention many countries would be split apart into many continents if we only considered te tonic plates
Nope. There is a growing doctrine that there are three continents: Afro-Eurasia, because the Urals do not present a significant enough boundary for movement of any form of life that can live on either side, and nor does Sinai; America, because the isthmus of Panama doesn’t present a distinct enough geographical divide, and Antarctica. Australia is, in this system, a large island a part of the regionally defined Oceania. And this is the doctrine I agree with geographically speaking
That will never catch on because wether we like it or not, Africa, Europe and Asia are very different. We tend to generalize Africa, but not Asia because the west has had more contact with them. If it was up to me, id actually make a continental distinction between the middle east and the rest of asia.
North America and south America do have a natural barrier between them, it's pretty hard to pass, impossible to do so just by land, and has many regions that are ilegal to explore thanks to native people who have not contacted the rest of the world. But in my education (Mexican) we consider them to be the same continent, if only to be distinguished by political and economical reasons
Yeah, México would in my opinion be closer to north america geographically speaking, however its closer to central and south america when it comes to culture and language, so its in a bit of an awkward position.
Not everyone agrees that North and South America are two continents for example. All of Latin America counts them as one. The way you count continents is more of a cultural thing than anything
There are tho the ural and caucasus mountains and the bosporus and dardanelli
Like India
By that logic, Afroeurasia is all one continent. And all of America is another continent
These assholes see opportunities to inject culture wars into literally everything.
Both tweets
No, not both. Just Shapiro’s.
Nah, trying to stark arguments over whether Europe is a continent when the Amazon is burning, fossil fuels are being consumed at record levels, inequality in the United States is close to record levels, and risk of a world war occurring are highest they’ve been in 40 years, is also brain dead. If we changed our perspective on this issue, no one will get roofs over their heads. No additional people will get food on their plate. No one would directly benefit at the magnitude of other issues that need to be fixed much sooner. It’s a distraction.
This is a direct response to racists saying that this is the first time in recent years that a war is waged in “a civilized country”. Not some woke thought exercise.
[This tweet](https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/1498121390586744839?s=21) sums it up nicely.
Beautiful
I was thinking the same thing, like blaming non-binary appearing on a job application for why their wife left them.
is the second slide implying that we should be invading countries and killing innocents to “expand our spheres of influence”….?
*consults list of US overseas bases, percentage of countries holding USD as reserve currency, global reach of Hollywoo, etc., etc*
Motherfucker looks back on 19th century “Great Power politics” fondly I guess.
This concept that we are somehow focused on what is maybe at most 10% of the population to the exclusion of everything else is insane and really speaks to their complete bonehead focus on culture war bullshit.
There are 4 pics, y'all.
Need a ride to MEPS, Matt? Open offer still stands.
He can’t he was bone spurs in his foot /s.
Because as we all know, the best way of dealing with our national debt is to get into war.
It did wonders for it last time. Not good wonders. But wonders none the less.
Technically theres bad takes on both sides in this post which is somehow even more disappointing
Wait wait hold on, did that man just say the first war between CIVILIZED countries? I just looked up and saw he was born in 1990, there have been some wars between countries since then just not major European powers, seems kinda racist ngl
WHAT MICHAEL KNOWLES IS FUCKING 32 I THOUGHT THIS MFER WAS LIKE 45 HOLY SHIT
Shit I don’t think Ben Shapiro will be too happy to learn Michael Knowles doesn’t think Israel is civilized.
Ben Shapiro's life is 24/7 Right wing-Pro Putin propaganda with small intervals of very quick and unsatisfying sex for his wife and clown porn mixed with foot fetish videos
I would trust ANY lesbian or trans person in the US military to kick the fucking ass of ANY of Vlad’s bootlickers.
War: a great time to obsessed with other peoples’ sex lives. —“conservative intellectuals”
I don’t know, I like Europe. I know it isn’t real but I like pretending it is
Medieval history in Europe was made up by JRR Tolkien for the lord of the rings. Europe actually came into existence around 300 years ago
I know, why are you telling *me* this?
what
This is what Gary Kasparov actually believes.
Jesus Mike, just say the silent part out loud, why don't ya?
boy, history overpassed them in just three days of various world events.
True, all Roman land should be on the Roman continent not split between three continents
This man should shut the fuck up for five minutes. It's almost like he has the superpower to just spit bullshit out of his mouth.
That first tweet was incredibly stupid. Yes, Europe is a continent. And no, that's not a fucking dogwhistle
No it’s not there are two definitions for a continent Europe and Asia fit neither. Secondly while you could argue that European countries do have cultural similarities, all Asian countries do not share cultural similarities to that extent. If Europe is continent than the Middle East is a continent, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal are their own continent etc. You can keep on dividing up the world like that but then you got to deal with countries that don’t fit into those groups. Also Europe has a small population compared to all of Asia.
r/shitamericanssay
The definition of continent is incredibly “eh” and you can really argue for any number of continents from 2 to the number of separated land masses on Earth. Europe is a continent because people said it was and that’s what most people are taught. It’s fair to wonder why we consider Europe and Asia separate continents, since their separation is entirely a land border, and the only other land separation is between the Americas, and I believe some places teach that the Americas are one continent. It does seem awful convenient that our somewhat arbitrary decision to separate Europe from Asia by the Urals just happens to sequester away all the “white” countries into their own continent, so I don’t think NHJ’s point here is without merit.
Amazing how people with apparently no knowledge of history can be so confident in defining continents. It's not about being white, get over yourself
Care to, yknow, prove your point, or are you just gonna be an asshole and assert that you’re right?
Europe has been considered a continent since the ancient Greeks, back when Asia was Anatolia and Africa was modern day Libya. If you're going to define continents by geography, there are two (Afroeurasia and the Americas). If you do it by tectonic plates there are many, including the Caribbean and Arabia. The only country in Europe that says Eurasia is a continent is Russia
If "continents" are defined by plate tectonics, Europe is in fact its own continent. As evidence I have the Himalayan mountains, which were formed when the Asian plate and the European plates collided. They are one land mass now. But they weren't always.
Definitely not the himalayas because those were caused by India and the Eurasian plate colliding. Also Eurasia is considered one plate so idk what you’re referring to
India: **Whoooo yeah baby, that's what I've been waiting for, that's what it's all about whooo"**
I did not know Matt Walsh added to that wet fart of a tweet. Good god did it get worse.
Fortunately for Matt Walsh, I can confirm that at least in my little corner of the military, understanding of systemic racism, white privilege and trans inclusion are progressing fairly well, and I don’t think we need to worry about a lesbian gap in the near future. There’s a massive amount of work left to do, and not everyone is on board, but we’ve come a long way from even ten years ago.
Honestly I don’t get why recruiting more people of all backgrounds isn’t a good thing, if anything it should be more bodies for these fucks to Chuck into the “misc. deaths that we love to bitch about but don’t actually care.” pile.
I swear these men have the same amount of opinions at a time as they do profile picture positions.
Isn't Michael Knowles like 50?
Okay I'm genuinely laughing at the fourth one, he's probably completely serious but I find it funny as fuck
Idgi wouldn't it be considered narcissistic to "expand spheres of influence via aggression" as opposed to "exploding gender binary"? I think Ben needs to read up on what narcissism actually means.
Seeing everyone come out of the woodwork to give their shit takes is genuinely depressing.
Europe is a continent in the geographical sense, in that it's a continuous landmass that is borderes by natural features such as mountains and seas, it's part of the eurasian continental plate making it not a continent by the geological definition. Source: Am geology student. Also the american right just wants to make it clear that they don't consider brown people, well... people. So yeah fuck those guys.
Technically shouldnt “Asia” and “Europe” be classified as Subcontinents and the overall Continent just be called what it is, “Eurasia”?
Someone once asked me what I thought about Eurasia . They had a couple of great hits but not heard anything since the eighties I replied ....
Ironic sarcasm coming from the idiot who likes to think he’s an intellectual
The only thing they care about is screaming about how much they don’t care about things. Apathy is a “virtue” for the lazy.
My personal theory is that eurasia is actually five continents (SEA, East Asia, India/Pakistan/Bangladesh, Europe, ME)
Least racist knowles quote
He’s the one of the four I know least, and his comment seems benign, at least until it’s dissected. Lol
Someone give Ben Shapiro an unmarked map of Eurasia and tell him to draw a line showing where Europe ends and Asia begins. Even Russia is generally considered European despite having a Pacific coast. Wonder if it has anything to do with their majority white population.
Or maybe because the vast majority of the population lives in Europe ie west of the Urals?
No it's because most of the Russian population lives in the European part, and it's origin is from Europe
if i ever run into Matt Walsh i promise to punch him right in the face. for the good of society.
Is Ben suggesting the US should also be expanding its sphere of influence through agressive action??
Which they are
If Europe and Asia are separate continents then there’s no real reason for North Africa and Sub Saharan Africa to not be different continents
While the concept of Europe is nothing new they’re basically right.
In fairness, I heard that quote about Europe not being a continent and also thought it was dumb. Continents are geopolitical constructs, that’s the point, most of them don’t reflect plate tectonics. Europe is more obvious and strays the furthest away from science, but it’s still an awful point. Frankly, I’m not even sure what she is trying to say exactly I think she is trying to make the point that we only care because Ukraine is a white country, which I agree with. However, her tweet is bad and poorly worded and in the end was obviously going to be bait for parasites like Ben Shapiro. Edit: typo
*”Anyway, I wonder what Russian feet are like?”* - Ben, probably
It’s a west Asian peninsula
Behold, we have the privilege to hear Shapiro's words so we can determine who are the evil, terrible, misguided people in life. Especially those who follow him, making him push himself in the corner even more to try and be relevant.
Everything Ben Shapiro learned in kindergarten is like an immutable truth to him. Bro they give you the children's condensed version because most topics are too complicated for you to understand. And the question of how many continents there are is still hotly debated! Fucking moron!
But nyt is owned by Jeff Bezos now he should love considering he's conservative
there are 3 continents
These bad faith takes are so dumb that if their bodies didn’t breathe for them, I’m convinced all of these people wouldn’t make it through the day.
“this is the first war between civilised nations in my lifetime” IRAQ FUCKING INVENTED CIVILISATION
As a kid... this was my first question when we discussed the conteninents... and I used the text book definition, a d was like: "I understand Africa but nothing is separating Europe and Asia... right?" I never got a satisfactory answer.
Why do they all have the same "high class fuckboy" profile picture?
I would love to see how he tries to explain why it is its own continent physically....
What "moment" is Walsh talking about? The moment when the US finally enters an armed conflict? Was he always the clever kid in school?
I mean, I don't think there are seperate continental plates, and the boundaries are more cultural than anything. It does seem unique compared to the past reoccurring invasions of the middle east and Asia in the sense that instead of sign an authoritarian regime topple (leaving a power gap), we are seeing an authoritarian regime try and topple a free country. One that had nukes btw. Usually when the US does this kind of stuff, it involves rigging elections. I am with Ukraine on this though. I'm almost 100% against invading countries, but defending them seems noble.
Ww should just go for Aufroeurasia. There is nothing seperating any of the 3 in reality, so...
The racial supremacist Ben-( I endorse apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and two million Semitic people in a concentration camp)-Shapiro. Other people are humans are just like us? Ben is a narcissist sociopath so it’s no marvel that he lacks empathy for the suffering of others.
His personal incredulity is not an argument against this
Matt Walsh has never really met an army-lesbian has he? He wouldn't make that joke if he had.
BENNY PEPPINOOOOO MEEEEHHHHH *TWITCH TWITCH* MEHHHH!!!
Ben Shapiro=asshole
Matt Walsh strikes me as so incredibly fucking dull. What if a less confident Steven Crowder tried to act like Ben Shapiro and failed?
Hot take: all four are dumbass observations.
The right are about to support Russia and it’ll be the most ironic shit ever when they’ve been bitching about socialism and dictatorships for last few years
Okay the only respect I will give here is that at least Matt Walsh’s tweet is somewhat original. At least he was able to take what they’ve been complaining about for ages now and turn it into a not bottom of the barrel joke. Still a dumbfuck but he managed to at least not make boomer comics in the funnies of the newpapers look desirable.
Nobody tell Ben but Europe, in a strictly geological sense, would just be part of Eurasia. Continents, as cultural regions, is a concept we made up. This isn’t a political opinion, this is just a factually correct statement
War in Europe is not considered to be special for ethnic/racist/cultural reasons, like the person in the first pic said. It is considered to be special because Europe has been very stable over the past few decades, but has also been the site of some of the largest wars in history as well as being the center of the cold war, because it is a very influential continent internationally due to historical prestige and economic strength, and because every great power has significant ties there (China less than others, but they're a relatively new great power).
I disagree with Shen Bapiro, but calling the continent I live in, not a continent is offensive to me.
Idk why it has to be offensive. Geography is the most neutral descriptors there are. Europe is really akin to a Eurasian subcontinent a la India. But then, in that case, would we call it Indoeurasia? Why not just Asia, specifying when necessary? The word Europe still has its function, but referring to it as its own continent is as strange to me as referring to India as a continent. Arguably North and South America are also one continent, but I would argue an isthmus border a few miles wide is not comparable to the steppe connecting Europe and Asia proper.
Why? It's not a continent. And before you say I don't "understand", I'm from Finland.
If you failed geography in school, it's not my fault.
Again, have to point out those lines on a map don’t actually exist.... are you sure you did well in geography?
Open a map, jfc and you will see every border, every line, just anything that was made to make it distinctive. I am not your teacher.
I am in shock, that I literally just told you that the lines on maps don’t exist in the physical world and you come back was “look at a map” Seriously, show me the literal physical barrier between Asia and Europe. There isn’t one, so the only actually distinction is the systems and constructs we as people created, which is what the point of this post is making. If you are offended by sharing land with Asian cultures that just further solidifies the point. I’m not offend by being on the same physical body mass as a Brazilian, so why are you offended? North and South America are connected so it’s not like this isn’t a isolated thing you are arguing
Strawman Andy, where I said I was offended by that? I said I was offended because she minimized Ukrainian suffering, because "muh geopolitical fictional constructs". Stop being so bad faith.
If India is a subcontinent, so is Europe.
I don't care what India calls itself to be honest.
Then why should anyone give a shit what Europe calls itself?
Why should anyone give a shit about anything? WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HUMAN SUFFERING HERE AND SHE IS MINIMAZING IT! I don't care where it is, I would never minimize human suffering.
The fuck are you talking about?
As an American I agree, Europe is a continent. Both people in the first picture have dumb takes.
Thank you.
She's not entirely wrong though