I've mentioned before that I have a rule of thumb when watching or reading anything to not watch anything made after 2014 without a trusted recommendation. I'm wondering if anyone has a similar kind of cutoff when reading about history? If so what is yours?
With the whole diversity obsession in entertainment it has thoroughly ruined period pieces and what is even more annoying is that the media shills will find some historian to claim that Victorian England was always very racially diverse, Vikings were multicultural, or we get the moronic stuff like League of Their Own/that GREASE prequel with lgbt stuff all over along with interracial relationships.
Funny thing is that I've never heard the argument about Victorian England or the Vikings until these shows started pushing this nonsense. It's as if they have some quack historian on retainer or they say something like "well the British Empire included parts of Africa so it makes sense for them to be in a show about upper crust Brits in the 1800s".
I had to stop reading modern science magazines a while back because I foolishly thought they surely wouldn't go along with the nonsense about transgenderism. I also looked up some information on the African slave trade and the essay grudgingly admitted that slavery existed in Africa but not as bad as American slavery. In America you had slaves that were treated very poorly and very well so I would assume that would be true across the world when slavery was commonplace.
So, sorry for the essay, but any rule of thumb y'all could recommend?
It's gotten so bad that at this point I have my doubts that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. I would assume that any history book written in at least the last 50 years is suspect.
Is it so bad that we doubt George Washington Carver invented peanut butter?
The aztecs beat him by a few hundred years.
I’ve seen footage from the 30s on him. I’d be suspicious if it was made today considering the times we live in
I never heard he invented peanut butter.
From what I remember reading, he invented a buttload of products from peanuts to help encourage crop rotation for optimal soil quality. I think people look at that and assume Peanut Butter was one of them.
Peanut Butter was already invented - he just patented it (sure he wasn't a jew ? lol)
That’s what I thought
I dunno, but I recall a retaliatory meme about "ending cultural appropriation," where the black character was left naked in a straw hut with a jar of peanut butter.