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This guy was like "if you lived in a hot place hundreds of years ago you wouldn't know about ice" and then ppl got mad and kinda racist at him twitter.com/bendreyfuss/st

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This is so confusing to me 🥺 I mean how *would* ancient Hawaiians know about ice?

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mountains!

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Ohh duh! I went to look at how tall they get. Turns out, very, with definitely a lot of snow aka ice hehe

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Still the angle of racism is just absurd lol i tried for a while and didn't think of mountains doesn't mean I think less of hawaiians ffs

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Yeah it's a basic mistake about geography and misses the point of "ppl in hot places would be mind blown by ice"

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Because I know someone is going to ask for receipts: This is the issue. It's not that hard to say "Hey, sorry, I was wrong" instead of doing this. There are a lot of ugly assumptions about indigenous people here, and this was after he was corrected.

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