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Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect
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RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect
It's a term for collective unreliable memories or things thought to be collective unreliable memories.  A popular one is that Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, was black.  

He wasn't.  In this case it's based on a subtle pre-internet, pre "fake news media BIAS!" conflation, appearing in textbooks going back to the 80's.   Whitney was unlikely to have invented the apparatus himself..it's simply that those who would have understood the task well enough to tool it, by and large, were not able to hold patents, as they were slaves.  The historical acknowledgement that slave IP is likely to be the origin of the cottin gins apparatus, and the cotton gins proximity to the narrative of slavery further reenforces the misapprehension. 

We have good reason to be mistaken here, because it's what we were taught...sort of.
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Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by Grandizer - January 16, 2018 at 8:30 am
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by brewer - January 16, 2018 at 8:44 am
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by polymath257 - January 16, 2018 at 9:56 am
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by Cyberman - January 16, 2018 at 11:02 am
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by The Grand Nudger - January 16, 2018 at 11:21 am
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by Aegon - January 16, 2018 at 2:24 pm
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by vulcanlogician - January 25, 2018 at 8:43 am
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by Grandizer - January 30, 2018 at 9:55 pm
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by vulcanlogician - January 30, 2018 at 10:00 pm
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by Grandizer - January 30, 2018 at 10:05 pm
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by Haipule - February 2, 2018 at 12:13 am
RE: Explain This #2: The Mandela Effect - by Cyberman - February 2, 2018 at 11:29 pm

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