Historical Misconceptions That We Hate

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"Napoleon was short" He was five foot seven inches, which was slightly above average for a Frenchman of that time.

"Twinkies are edible for decades or even longer" The average shelf life of Twinkies is 45 days, although it was originally 25 days. But they are normally kept on store shelves for only 7 to 10 days.

"Feeding candy to dogs will give them worms". I used to hear this all the time as a kid. But if we can eat candy and not get worms, then neither can dogs. Giving them food with actual live parasitic worms or their eggs gives them worms, which candy normally does not have.

" The word Xmas was created to be secular and take the Christ out of Christmas by evil Satan-worshiping atheists"
Xmas is really just an abbreviation of Christmas that comes from the Greek word for "Christ".

'Atheists worship Satan (see above)." Atheists don't worship any kind of religious being, including Satan.

"If you don't go to college, then you'll be a loser"

So Twink from Sausage Party isn't actually immortal?



Whoever told you this was obviously trolling. Nobody could be this idiotic.

Right?

in australia, i would say the notion of "the stolen generation" is a misrepresented part of our history.
it happened from the early 1900's to the late 1960's.

the basic story is that aboriginal children were removed from their families forcibly and placed into foster care (by white people).
they want compensation and they are whinging savagely about the injustice of it.

however, unfortunately, white people interbreeding with aboriginal women produced "half castes"
the tribes did not like the half cast children and often killed them.

otherwise they were raped and treated poorly.
alcoholism was also rampant among aborigines (our fault by introducing it).

so half cast kids were routinely in poor condition in their communities and were taken into white custody.
there was an attempt to educate them and care for them.

maybe it was wrong to do, but it did not come from evil intentions.

i think hitler does not deserve fully, his reputation.

it was himmler who came up with the "final solution".

hitler wanted them all evicted from germany (bad) and tried to relocate them, but there was a limit to the intake that each country would accept.
himmler apparently never told hitler about what his solution entailed.
hitler however must have suspected that they were being murdered, but i remember hearing that he told himmler he did not want to hear any details.

hitler also forbade the use of chemical weapons which is curious considering the mythology surrounding his evil nature.

it seems difficult to believe he would have authorised a chemical weapon (zyclon b) to kill jews.

anyway he was certainly a bad person, but maybe not as bad as it is claimed.

"toilets in Australia flush in the opposite direction that they flush in the United States"

"Asexuality doesn't exist. Everyone experiences sexual attraction whether to the opposite or same gender. Those who claim to be asexual are actually sexually attracted to the same gender and don't want to admit it."

"The Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves."

Nope.
https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html

"The word "crap" comes from Thomas Crapper".

"We only use ten percent of our brains." If so, what is the other ninety percent of our brain doing?

While I disagree, I don't want the thread derailed again with an argument.

"All women are secretly bisexual"

I hear this one a lot and I know it's not true.

Overall, I hate it when white nationalists treat the Roman Empire as though it was a "great white empire".

The Roman Empire was a multi-ethic empire ... and they had absolute contempt for the people of Northern Europe.

A lot of people ask me "Why do you even consider white nationalist rhetoric? Why not simply dismiss all racist theories just because they are racist?"

That's not what Socrates would say. I believe that, if something contains substance, but is factually incorrect, it should be debunked.

That's how the modern rise of the far-right will be dismantled. The left needs to listen to me here.

I'm not saying that racists should be allowed on this site. I'm saying that the leftists here should be willing to venture to other sites which allow that sort of nonsense.

Overall, I hate it when white nationalists treat the Roman Empire as though it was a "great white empire".

The Roman Empire was a multi-ethic empire ... and they had absolute contempt for the people of Northern Europe.

A lot of people ask me "Why do you even consider white nationalist rhetoric? Why not simply dismiss all racist theories just because they are racist?"

That's not what Socrates would say. I believe that, if something contains substance, but is factually incorrect, it should be debunked.

That's how the modern rise of the far-right will be dismantled. The left needs to listen to me here.

I'm not saying that racists should be allowed on this site. I'm saying that the leftists here should be willing to venture to other sites which allow that sort of nonsense.

Yes. Better to debunk their claims. Above all we should not silence them because they will use that as evidence of a conspiracy against them.

If we silence them it will seem to them like there's no valid argument against them. If we silence them it will seem to them like they have indisputable evidence which must be supressed rather than debunked.

Probably not all women, but many from my experience.

it's only stuff i gleaned from many documentaries i watched about him.
none of them was dedicated to showing hitler in a positive light.

i know he hated jews and saw them to be genetically inferior, and he wanted his empire free of them, but i think himmler spared him of the gory details.

goebels was the master of propaganda and was also an evil person.

i remember hearing in one documentary, that his personal train pulled up and stopped for clearance beside a train on the way to a death camp. he said after seeing their faces pressed up against the slotted windows "never expose me to that kind of sight again".

i do not know enough to have an argument about it.

The thing is, every Nazi lived to please Hitler, including Himmler. I seriously doubt he'd have carried out mass genocide without Hitler's knowledge. And in fact, Himmler's second-in-command, Reinhard Heydrich, had headed up the Wannsee conference where details of the Holocaust were worked out - - which was all recorded. True, it was Himmler and Heydrich who had worked out the details of gas chambers, but ultimately it was Hitler who bore most responsibility because he was the totalitarian autocrat. Also, one elderly German woman, whose husband was a higher up in the Nazi government, in a recent interview told how she had confronted Hitler with the mass murder in the camps. She recalled Hitler seemed hurt by her accusations as he told her that with the war, he had to maintain the biological balance in Europe with the mass exterminations. So he knew, and he approved, and had doubtlessly given the go ahead.