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“replying to Dennster Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire If you knew anything about history, you’d know the world’s leading thinkers have all believed the earth is round since Pythagoras in the 6th century BC. Plato said the earth was a globe. So did Euclid. So did Archimedes and Aristotle 1/... RT 8 L 90 Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire The Greek mathematician Eratosthenes used geometry to calculate the earth’s circumference in about 250BC and got it nearly right. The Romans believed the earth was round. So did St Augustine, the Venerable Bede and Thomas Aquinas 2/... RT 7 L 84 Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire You can disagree with all those learned historical figures if you want, but don’t tell me everyone was a flat-earther before Columbus. That’s a downright lie 3/3 RT 5 L 79 Dennster @true_earth_matters Sorry, Terg, but you don’t know what you’re talking about RT 8 L 118 Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire Actually I have a doctorate in the history of science. What’s your qualification? RT 6 L 89 Dennster blocked Trent Meyer Sally Jenkinson @saljenk07342 STFU Terg RT 0 L 57”
― Simon Edge, The End of the World is Flat

“Globy Dick @GlobyDick OK flat-earther RT 0 L 5 Dennster @true_earth_matters Read a book RT 0 L 43 Globy Dick @GlobyDick After you, mate. Maybe you should start with Copernicus RT 0 L4 Sally Jenkinson @saljenk07342 STFU Terg RT 0 L 21 Sadie @sadie93ozumvjfs Hahahahaha! Copernicus was another white guy RT 0 L 32 Globy Dick @GlobyDick Out of interest, are you black or white yourself? RT 0 L8 Sadie blocked Globy Dick replying to Dennster Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire What makes you think ‘globularism’ is an imperialist project? That’s ahistorical bull RT 1 L 23 Dennster @true_earth_matters Are you serious? Have you ever heard of Christopher Columbus? RT 2 L 54 Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire What does Columbus have to do with anything? RT 0 L 6 Dennster @true_earth_matters Do you Tergs know nothing? He only invented the idea that the earth was round”
― Simon Edge, The End of the World is Flat

“Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire No he didn’t. Don’t be ridiculous. Nobody has seriously believed the earth is flat for the last 2,500 years. Not until you lot started drinking the Kool-Aid RT 3 L 41 Dennster @true_earth_matters Please. It’s a documented fact that Columbus had to try and persuade the Council of Salamanca that the earth was round, but they didn’t buy it. And none of his sailors wanted to go on the voyage because they thought he was a globularist nutter RT 9 L 124 Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire It’s not documented fact. It’s pure fiction. It was made up by the writer Washington Irving in the 1820s to create an origin story for the United States. The Council of Salamanca was never even a thing RT 1 L 27 Dennster @true_earth_matters Washington Irving? Right. Another white guy RT 3 L 46 Mekell King @pointymekell I’m black. It doesn’t upset me if anyone says the earth is round. I’m comfortable with basic facts RT 5 L 64 Dennster @true_earth_matters Have you ever heard of internalised racism? RT 0 L 14 Mekell King @pointymekell Seriously? You’re going there? You, a white dude, are actually calling me, a black woman, racist?? RT 7 L 89 Dennster @true_earth_matters How do you know I’m white? RT 0 L 65 Mekell King @pointymekell You are, though, aren’t you? RT 1 L 75 Dennster blocked Mekell King”
― Simon Edge, The End of the World is Flat

“HolbyFan @holbyfanhatestergs I hate Tergs. They’re no better than Nazis and they turn my stomach. If I see one today I’m going to punch them RT 57L 787 Jeremy Pennington @jeremy_pennington_74 What’s a Terg? RT 0 L 2 HolbyFan @holbyfanhatestergs Vermin in human form. The lowest of the low RT 29 L 238 Dennster @true_earth_matters Not sure they’re even human RT 13 L 250 Jeremy Pennington @jeremy_pennington_74 It was a serious question. What is a Terg? I keep seeing the word but I don’t know what it means RT 0 L 2”
― Simon Edge, The End of the World is Flat

“Globy Dick @GlobyDick Maybe I can help. Terg is a term of abuse which is short for ‘True Earth Rejecting Globularist’. It’s a way of censoring people who don’t believe in medieval superstition and who believe the earth is round, even if that (allegedly) offends people from the southern hemisphere RT 14 L 68 Sally Jenkinson @saljenk07342 STFU Terg RT 4 L 95 Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire I’m from the southern hemisphere and it doesn’t upset me RT 1 L 15 Sadie @sadie93ozumvjfs You’re white though, aren’t you? RT 0 L 62 Trent Meyer @meyer_the_fire Yes. What difference does that make? RT 0 L 8 Sadie @sadie93ozumvjfs [rolling eyes emoji] None at all mate [laugher emoji] RT 0 L 64 Dennster @true_earth_matters The whole point of globularism was to demean the indigenous people of the countries in the so-called southern hemisphere. If you’re white, you arrived there through imperialism so you’re part of the problem RT 17 L 194 Globy Dick @GlobyDick What the hell are you on about? Can you even hear yourself? The whole point of ‘globularism’, as you call it, was to describe the shape of the earth RT 2 L 16 Dennster @true_earth_matters OK Terg RT 0 L 83”
― Simon Edge, The End of the World is Flat

“Biology, then. There are some basic truths there. You could make your flat-earthers argue that biological sex is a false concept imposed on the world by racist imperialists. Or is that too far-fetched?”
― Simon Edge, The End of the World is Flat