TIL Phrenology (a racist pseudoscience) was used by the Brits to label the Irish “a flawed and degenerate breed” due to our big Irish heads; apparently one of the first applications of Phrenology to justify subjugating people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology#Ireland
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Isn’t that the reason those skills were stolen on inisbofin
Of course you’d say that… you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!
They had a point though. Big Irish head on ye!
At least we can spot each other in a crowd in any part of the world.
So many cool hats, forever just out of my reach.
at the time we were among the tallest people in europe so it makes sense our big irish heads seemed even bigger and irish-er than they are now.
Does the ~~lion~~ blockhead concern himself with the opinion of the ~~sheep~~ pinheads
Didn’t DiCaprios character in Django justify his treatment of slaves with this logic 🤣
Big Irish head is a real thing though, I have never found a hat in a shop off the shelf that wasn’t too small for me.
[*”Your body betrays your degeneracy, Paddy. You should be in the fields, not voting.”*](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/discoelysium_gamepedia_en/images/4/4e/Portrait_measurehead.png)
I read about on it once, written by a French man and his daughter. The basis of it was, if you have certain characteristics you are a bad person, unless you have almost identical characteristics , then you are a good person. It was patently bollocks and obviously so to anyone with half a brain.
I’m glad it’s not just me out here or they’d have been right
The usuals have been doing their utmost to bring a slightly rebranded version of this shit back, btw –
[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/far-right-phrenology-physiognomy-spread-hate-1234808413/](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/far-right-phrenology-physiognomy-spread-hate-1234808413/)
First? Wasn’t that the only application of it?