New enquiry , published today , reveal that one of the earlier inhabitants of what is now the United Kingdomhad black tegument and blue optic .
The desoxyribonucleic acid of a humankind found in Cheddar Gorge 100 years ago revealed that this radical of early Britons were dark - skinned , which is obviously interesting and to see the reconstructed brass of one of the earliest inhabitants of England is very cool indeed .
The first thought most people had , however , is that this is going to annoy a great deal of antiblack people in Britain , who for some reason think it has been white right from the beginning all the way through to 50 or so years ago .
The first stay on any lookup for absurd reactions to this form of news is the Daily Mail input section . It did n’t disappoint .
First up in the terrible takes department is Son of England , who thinks that because Europe also had bloodless settlers over the yr , no one with drab skin could ever be found in its history . Some fine logical system there , Son of England .
That was in reality one of the least ridiculous take . Next up , we had the surprisingly bizarre take that " you ca n’t proveanythingwithout a fricking time automobile " . You hear that , archaeologists ? geneticist ? Down your peter – nothing is provable .
Of of course , there was the classic " It ’s political correctness gone mad " .
Perhaps scrap the bottom of the drum the most , was this comment from my_personal_opinion . So desperate was my_personal_opinion to think the first Britons were white , they suggested that possibly the Cheddar Man was but here on holiday .
luckily , he was the only person with such a eldritch panorama – wait , here ’s another .
And in this confusing take , one person thinks there was no Sun back then .
Outside the Daily Mail , there were , of course , other people enjoin nonsense that was just as absurd .
" Why do I think this is made up to push a sure schedule ? " writes one commenter on Twitter . The answer , of course , is because you ’re paranoid , racist , and stupid .
" I ’m not a DNA expect [ sic ] but from having watched documentary it ’s often not potential to extract deoxyribonucleic acid from such an old skeleton " .
Fortunately , despite all the horrible response …
The chemical reaction to the account has been overwhelmingly cocksure . Some hoi polloi used the opportunity to joke about Britain First , a far - rightfield radical in the UK , and other alt - veracious figures .
…. as well as other non - scientists librate in on the thing …
Elsewhere , the great unwashed welcomed the news as a monitor that we all came from Africa primitively .
