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Oct. 5, 2015 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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Armoured Skeptic - EXPOSED!!1!
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We had new insight into YouTuber's Sargon of Akkad.
Apparently, he is such a misogynist anti-feminist that he named himself intentionally after the man who single-handedly destroyed women's rights.
That's right back in 4000 BC.
Women in Sumer had every right that men had.
They could own property, they could represent themselves in court, and then the Akkadian Sargon came along and decided that women should be subservant.
So clearly, this is why Sargon named himself after this emperor.
Now, I'm not going to show you the clip, even though it's fair use, BBC, they're kind of sticklers, and I don't want to get into a fight with them.
So I'll just show you a review of the series where BBC actually talks about this.
In the current debate about the new feminism and daily assaults on equality, I do not recall anyone stepping very far back from the contemporary world of pay gaps and thigh gaps to ask the most basic question.
Why is this a thing?
Okay, what?
Where do the roots of sexism lead?
Okay, this isn't proving what I wanted to prove.
Anyways, point is, I gotcha, you son of a bitch.
I gotcha.
You're the reason the wage gap exists.
Son of a bitch!
That's it, time to trawl through everything he's ever recorded to find-
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