Popular Post Harte Posted June 7, 2020 Popular Post #1 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Quote Historians, archaeologists, and skeptics of all stripes quickly condemned the History Channel for using the language of racial inclusivity, diversity, and justice while simultaneously airing programming that sends exactly the opposite message. The History Channel is the current home of Ancient Aliens, a program that has spent ten years asserting that the world’s native and indigenous people were unable to construct monuments or develop cultures of their own without extraterrestrial help. While the series occasionally mentions alien help for Europeans, it is in terms of partnership or white appropriation of alien technology, while non-whites are described as overwhelmed by and submissive to alien overlords. Read it all here. Harte 10 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted June 7, 2020 #2 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Facepalm. Do some think ancient theories have to be OK'ed by the political correctness rules of the year 2020? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Phantom_Stranger Posted June 7, 2020 #3 Share Posted June 7, 2020 I've watched the 3 hour special of Ancient Aliens. If you mute the sound it is actually pretty good. They go around the world showing ancient relics. Everything that the narrator and guests say is obviously a joke though. 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jodie.Lynne Posted June 7, 2020 Popular Post #4 Share Posted June 7, 2020 10 minutes ago, papageorge1 said: Facepalm. Do some think ancient theories have to be OK'ed by the political correctness rules of the year 2020? Soooo you are 100% OK with stating that any non-white civilization, could only have prospered with outside assistance? The Britons could construct Stonehenge, but the Mayans couldn't construct pyramids? 10 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Piney Posted June 7, 2020 Popular Post #5 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Quote The History Channel has aired many programs, including America Unearthed and Search for the Lost Giants, that alleged Native Americans were the hybrid descendants of a lost white race, the latter show asserting that this lost race was physically superior. Its highest-rated show, The Curse of Oak Island, claimed that Native peoples worshiped white Europeans as living gods. The History Channel has aired many programs, including Ancient Aliens, In Search Of, and many one-off specials, alleging that global indigenous cultures originated on Atlantis, a Greek-style lost civilization occupied by a lost white race. Such stories were based on Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, and Edgar Cayce who specifically identified Atlantis’s people as white and the "Red Race" as their servants 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Harte Posted June 7, 2020 Author Popular Post #6 Share Posted June 7, 2020 17 minutes ago, papageorge1 said: Facepalm. Do some think ancient theories have to be OK'ed by the political correctness rules of the year 2020? Being racist is not the same as being politically incorrect. In order to keep your worldview sparkly, you are forced to now defend racism, apparently. Harte 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post +susieice Posted June 7, 2020 Popular Post #7 Share Posted June 7, 2020 It isn't easy being green, or grey, or blue. 1 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted June 7, 2020 #8 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Southern Poverty Law Center article on ancient aliens theories. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/01/02/close-encounters-racist-kind More on the subject https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/ 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted June 7, 2020 #9 Share Posted June 7, 2020 32 minutes ago, Jodie.Lynne said: Soooo you are 100% OK with stating that any non-white civilization, could only have prospered with outside assistance? The Britons could construct Stonehenge, but the Mayans couldn't construct pyramids? I have never heard anyone make claims quite like that but actually if that was a serious theory of history supported by evidence (controversial of course) then I am OK with it. You can't make history turn out the way you want it to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted June 7, 2020 #10 Share Posted June 7, 2020 29 minutes ago, Harte said: Being racist is not the same as being politically incorrect. In order to keep your worldview sparkly, you are forced to now defend racism, apparently. Harte Double facepalm. Even if true history would be judged racist by modern standards I personally prefer the truth. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post XenoFish Posted June 7, 2020 Popular Post #11 Share Posted June 7, 2020 As the resident Xeno, we did not build anything on this planet. Because if we did, we'd do it better. 3 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodie.Lynne Posted June 7, 2020 #12 Share Posted June 7, 2020 26 minutes ago, papageorge1 said: I have never heard anyone make claims quite like that but actually if that was a serious theory of history supported by evidence (controversial of course) then I am OK with it. You can't make history turn out the way you want it to. Then by all means, please show us the historical evidence (not fanciful imaginings ) that indicate that Southern American, Egyptian, Indian, African, and Chinese societies were aided by ET's or Atlanteans, or Lemurians. You can't make history turn out the way you want it to. - papageorge1 Nor can you pull BS theories out of your bunghole, to fit your fantasy. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Noteverythingisaconspiracy Posted June 7, 2020 #13 Share Posted June 7, 2020 2 hours ago, papageorge1 said: Facepalm. Do some think ancient theories have to be OK'ed by the political correctness rules of the year 2020? If being against racism mean you are politically correct, you can count me in as politically correct. The more interesting question to me is why aren't you ? 1 hour ago, papageorge1 said: Double facepalm. Even if true history would be judged racist by modern standards I personally prefer the truth. Your posting here through the years clearly shows that this is what Churchill called a terminological inexactitude. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted June 7, 2020 #14 Share Posted June 7, 2020 I just can not understand why, if aliens traveled all the way here to help build pyramids, why did they not put some electricity in them, or at least give the workers a battery torch? 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micahc Posted June 7, 2020 #15 Share Posted June 7, 2020 First the History Channel stopped being the History Channel years ago. Shows like Ancient Aliens, Oak Island belong on the Cartoon Channel. They are not serious shows, but just produced to feed the simple minded that think parking wars is real. Having said that, I never thought about the racist point of view of pyramids couldn't be made by brown humans and had to have help as a white biased. Maybe it is. I thought it more of a way to attract very dumb viewers who already think aliens did everything and then left. It is an interesting thought. I have seen several shows on big foot that is basically a bunch of people running around in the dark screaming like school children. I don't think the pyramids look like they were built or designed by some advanced civilization that has achieved faster than light speed. To me it looks like something built by humans in the ancient world. So is the History channel racist or just dumb? 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaylemurph Posted June 7, 2020 #16 Share Posted June 7, 2020 2 hours ago, papageorge1 said: Facepalm. Do some think ancient theories have to be OK'ed by the political correctness rules of the year 2020? No, but the theories do have to pass the “not so grossly ignorant as to be derided by a slow fifth grader” rule. —Jaylemurph 4 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted June 7, 2020 #17 Share Posted June 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Jodie.Lynne said: Then by all means, please show us the historical evidence (not fanciful imaginings ) that indicate that Southern American, Egyptian, Indian, African, and Chinese societies were aided by ET's or Atlanteans, or Lemurians. You can't make history turn out the way you want it to. - papageorge1 Nor can you pull BS theories out of your bunghole, to fit your fantasy. Calm yourself Jodie, did I not say if the evidence suggested things that were considered racist by modern standards, then that would be OK with me. History is history. Now an endless discussion of the evidence here is not the subject of this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted June 7, 2020 #18 Share Posted June 7, 2020 40 minutes ago, Noteverythingisaconspiracy said: If being against racism mean you are politically correct, you can count me in as politically correct. The more interesting question to me is why aren't you ? Well would you go so far as to replace true history if it could be twisted into being racist with your own politically correct version? I hope you answer 'no' and that was all I was saying in this thread. If there was alien involvement then there was alien involvement. Sounds like simple sense to me. And not everything is a conspiracy theory. Ancient alien theory is not a conspiracy to support racism. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papageorge1 Posted June 7, 2020 #19 Share Posted June 7, 2020 15 minutes ago, jaylemurph said: No, but the theories do have to pass the “not so grossly ignorant as to be derided by a slow fifth grader” rule. —Jaylemurph Another discussion topic there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Noteverythingisaconspiracy Posted June 7, 2020 #20 Share Posted June 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, papageorge1 said: Well would you go so far as to replace true history if it could be twisted into being racist with your own politically correct version? I hope you answer 'no' and that was all I was saying in this thread. If there was alien involvement then there was alien involvement. Sounds like simple sense to me. And not everything is a conspiracy theory. Ancient alien theory is not a conspiracy to support racism. The Ancient Aliens is fiction trying to masquerade as history. Apart from being wrong, which should be bad enough, it is also demeaning to our ancestors to say that they weren't smart enough to build the things that they made and had to have outside help. How would you fell if you had made something and then I came along and said it was surely aliens who did it because you weren't smart enough to do so ? 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodie.Lynne Posted June 7, 2020 #21 Share Posted June 7, 2020 3 hours ago, papageorge1 said: Do some think ancient theories have to be OK'ed by the political correctness rules of the year 2020? Theories, cupcake, need to have at least a semblance of evidentiary support. You, however, have consistently demonstrated that you fully embrace every fairy dust & moonshine idea out there. The fact is that the History Channel, is looking for ratings. Didn't they, a few years back, air a show about the existence of mermaids? Your casual dismissal of the efforts and accomplishments of primitive non-Caucasian peoples in ancient days, says a lot about your thoughts and general outlook on life. Imagine, for a moment, that the idea that the "Romans couldn't possibly have constructed the Colosseum without help from an advanced species!" Or that, in order to construct the Hoover Dam, aliens from another world were required. Would you feel a sense of indignation, that the achievements of our forebears was denigrated? If so, why? 6 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted June 7, 2020 #22 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Here's another of the History Channel's 'Greatest Racist Hits' when they recognized a fake Cherokee "tribe" that's on the CNO ( Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)'s fraud list to help back the Mormon "theory?" of our origin. https://bookofmormonevidence.org/cherokee-dna-from-history-channel-documentary/ 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodie.Lynne Posted June 7, 2020 #23 Share Posted June 7, 2020 17 minutes ago, papageorge1 said: Well would you go so far as to replace true history "True history"? Oh, this oughta be good. But I suppose you will duck behind the cover of "a discussion not for this thread", and slink off into the shadows. If you are insinuating that there is some eons old, world wide plot to hide the "twue history" of the world, then may I suggest that you move up to the next size in tinfoil hats? Your current one appears to be cutting off the flow of blood to your cranium. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harte Posted June 7, 2020 Author #24 Share Posted June 7, 2020 2 hours ago, papageorge1 said: Double facepalm. Even if true history would be judged racist by modern standards I personally prefer the truth. "History" can't be racist, but there is a history of racism and it IS called racism by historians. The idea is that only aliens could have built these things, and certainly not the ignorant, savage, brown indigenous populations. That idea is inherently racist and that is what you're defending. Harte 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaylemurph Posted June 7, 2020 #25 Share Posted June 7, 2020 There is no such thing as “true history.” History is, by definition, interpretive and therefore subjective. Respectable historians explicitly acknowledge this and are transparent about their sources, methodologies and influences. Suggesting there’s true history is tantamount to admitting you just don’t know what your talking about /and/ that you’re willing to drag the entire field of history into disrepute because you’re too simple to understand the complexities of historiography. —Jaylemurph 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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