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What's some really unpopular opinion you have? (lemmings.world)

submitted 1 year ago by rikudou@lemmings.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it's actually pretty popular.

Do you have some that's really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?

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[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of our historical narratives were invented by a few Western elites (nobility, priests, scholars) about 400-450 years ago.

(Basically Fomenko's New chronology.)

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Which reminds me that there seems to be very little content or interest in schools explaining how "western civilization" ended up using arabic numerals, deciding to learn real medicine and who was responsible for keeping copies of the greek philosophers' works during the early days of christianity.