{"id":1190,"date":"2017-02-06T09:17:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:21:41","slug":"eli-whitney-and-the-mandela-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/02\/eli-whitney-and-the-mandela-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Eli Whitney and the “Mandela Effect”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen: I, too, am one of those dumbasses who got it into his head that Eli Whitney was black<\/a> (although, my hand to God, I swear I saw this on a sign in the African-American History Museum in Detroit when I was a grade schooler–although that itself seems problematic, as it’s highly likely that the time period I’m remembering was when the museum was closed for construction <\/a>)–and had also dwelled on the irony that the cotton gin (which I believed he invented to ease the labors of enslaved persons) single-handedly invigorated the slave trade by making it massively more profitable.\u00a0 <\/span>I’m chagrined to admit that I may have even taught<\/i> this “fact” at some point.<\/p>\n

But that’s all trivia; read all the way through this article and meditate on the Mandela Effect<\/a>, extraordinary popular delusions, and the madness of crowds\u2014because apparently there was never any Sinbad movie titled Shazaam<\/i>! <\/b><\/p>\n

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FUCK<\/i><\/b>\u203d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n