Historical Misconceptions That We Hate

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I also hate it when cowboys are portrayed as "uniquely American".

Cowboys aren't uniquely American. Many other countries have, historically, had people who were exactly like cowboys in everything but their name. In old Australia, there were stockmen. They were exactly like cowboys, but Australian. Similarly, Mexico had vaqueros, Argentina had gauchos, and Chile had Huasos.

Herding cattle while riding a horse and wearing a big hat isn't a uniquely American thing.

"up until modern times, women have had it worse than men historically"

Complete and utter nonsense.

Stop it with the personal attacks, or you'll be taking a 30-day vacation.

Agreed

In the 70’s I attended the Calgery Stampede. They still run that every year.

It's often written about how the continental pagan Saxons were deliberately and without cause attacked by the fanatical Christian Franks who imposed Christianity on them.

While Frankish actions in the Saxon wars often involved indefensible atrocities, the fact remains that the Saxons had been attacking Frankish lands nonstop, raiding, and committing mass robbery and murder. Having enough, the Franks under Charlemagne launched their own wars on the Saxons with the intention of converting them. The Franks understood that the Saxon pagan religion was inspiring this nonstop raiding, as the Franks in Pre-Christian times had practised the same warlike religion.

The children's game "Ring around the Rosy" is about catching and dying of the plague.

It isn't really, but so many people believe it we might as pretend that it is.

The beaver (my country's national animal) bites its own testicles off.

Yet another myth that refuses to die. One of Aesop's fables tells a comical tale of a Eurasian beaver doing this to keep from being hunted since beaver testicles were commonly used as medicine. Since they are *inside* the beaver's body, this would be just a tiny bit difficult.

This is a very good one.

It was Charles Darwin who realized that evolution was driven by natural selection and sexual selection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought

Protip For People Who Like to Argue With Creationists: Many of the common criticisms of evolution that creationists bring up do not apply to pre-Darwinian types of evolution. Perhaps people who reject the Darwinian model should consider other forms of evolution, instead of rejecting the fossil record entirety.

I also hate it when Native American culture is portrayed as super-special ... as though Native Americans belong to a different species or something.

It is true that Native Americans lived in harmony with nature and took the time to recognize nature's beauty ... but they did not invent that lifestyle. During prehistory, all people saw the world that way.

Also, Native Americans only used herbal medicine because modern, science-based medicine was not available to them.

"The Magna Carta was an early call for democracy!"

Nope. The Magna Carta only gave rights to the nobles.

Also, some parts of the Magna Carta are anti-Semitic.

I also hate it when people in the autistic community try to diagnose every single historical figure with autism.

Harsh Advice Time: Diagnosing historical figures with autism isn't productive. If you think that people with autism are intelligent (and we usually are) then you should demonstrate this by doing something smart yourself. Don't latch onto the achievements of others.

Yeah ... Einstein discovered relativity ... but have you discovered anything? Better get to work.

I also hate this. Einstein was very NT.

This video dispels a lot of myths regarding Columbus.

Hmmm, I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a, seemingly, emotional response to a post like mine----usually, a Mod will just step-in and say, something like: “Attacking someone is against the rules”, and that’s that.

I was just wondering if DarthMetaKnight has ever been publicly chided / thusly-threatened for any of HIS posts, cuz…..

Aghogday

"Stop using your autism as a crutch like a loser."

…and, in the same post: "you are deliberately trying to waste space and piss us off with your trollish posting style. In other words, you are officially worse than the people who use autism as a crutch to get out of work.

Attack my humanity? Boo hoo. Cry me a goddamn river. You sound like an SJW Tumblrette when you whine like that. Have you no dignity? If you are 57 then perhaps you should start acting like a goddamn adult."

https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 5#p7871855

Daniel89

- "Once again, you are spewing pseudo-intellectual nonsense."
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 3#p7843433

"Stop being an idiot. You're acting like a drooling idiot at this point. I thought this site was supposed to be for people who are intelligent but socially awkward. ...if you use your brain and stop being a moron ...Stop being dumb on purpose."
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 0#p7869060

"more BS"
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 8#p7869088

"This tsunami of political diarrhea never ends. "
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 0#p7869150

"Take your neo-Malthusian attitude and shove it."
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 4#p7869294

Darmok

"Absolutely pathetic"
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 0#p7638380

EzraS

"If you're going to spew pure wind, you might as well say nothing at all."
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Kokopelli

"You suck at this. You're just embarrassing yourself."
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 4#p7867754

Pepe

"Don't be so damn smug."
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 9#p7821259

Raptor

"intellectually lazy"
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 7#p7844147

Insinuates that Raptor is someone who thinks reading is for faģģots
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 6#p7881046

"adolescent, nihilistic comedian"
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 8#p7788868

Sly279

"misanthropic grouch"
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 1#p7835271

"Simple ignorance is no longer an excuse. You are being deliberately deceitful at this point. Stop repeating this lie that I have refuted countless times."
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 7#p7867387

"When you have infinite free time, there is no excuse for intellectual laziness.", "Do you ever proofread your posts before clicking submit? ...I get annoyed when English is bastardized this frequently."
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And it has been going-on, seemingly unchecked, for as long as he's been here:

Hanotaux 12 Oct 2010, 2:16 pm

"Quit being a moron."
https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 9#p3110189

…..Enquiring minds want to know! (Note: This is a very, VERY short / incomplete list!)

Charlemagne was French.

No, Charlemagne was a Frank. While it's true the Franks were the ancestors of many French, they were also the forebears of modern day Germans, Belgians, and Dutch. Charlemagne himself had been born and raised in the German speaking area of modern day Belgium, and ruled from the German city of Aachen, and the language he spoke was a dialect of the middle Franconian dialect of German. In his native language, he was called Karl der Grosse.

Ma'am, I've visited in Oregon, and there are still Native American tribes living there still today.