What's the funniest/worst examples of normie historical ignorance you've encountered? Here's mine from today.
>be me >talking to some normies >a girl is trying to explain her ideas about justice and moral relativity or something >"Yeah, it's like when Constantine ordered the crusades, they wanted to genocide all of the Muslims, that was their goal." >Ask what the heck she's talking about >Another girl says "You know, it's like in the 20's and 30's, when they were burning all those witches." >First girl says "You know that the reason for the witch burnings was that everyone was basically on drugs and hallucinating all the time." >"But yeah, basically, nobody thinks that what Hitler did was good, and the crusades were like world war two. The crusaders wanted to wipe out an entire race of people." >Guy says "Actually, the reason for the crusades was that the Catholic Church wanted to get rid of all the extra people running around in Europe."
Not as hardcore but basically right now I'm studying in England and so far this is the worst shit I've ever heard: >I've never heard of the Battle of Verdun before, only know about the Somme. >Did France do anything during WW1 anyway?
The guy at the end was surface level correct tho. The Pope was trying to unite western Catholics under a common cause and stop the constant state of feuding at the time, the hope was that the nobility would stop murdering each other and one anothers peasants and calm down a bit.
A better question is why didn't you correct them OP?
Aiden Thomas
>Did the French do anything during WW1 anyway? >I mean, did they? (Besides dying)
Brayden Brown
Last night when my grandparents were explaining the plot of the imitation game and thought it was a documentary. They didn't understand any of the logic behind anything but they kept pointing out all the drama plots in the film as if the film was an actual real video of events.
Oliver Butler
>A better question is why didn't you correct them OP? Because it's very easy to come off as an Autismo Maximus.
I was talking with this cute red head and she was spouting the typical liberal "Muh poor native" shit and I devils advocated her and brought up the fact the Iroquois genocides dozens of tribes and were eventually stopped by the French. Then she started talking about the slave trade and I brought up the fact it was African kingdoms who sold Europeans their slaves and taught her about the kingdoms of Benin and Ife. Not only did she come around but I could tell she was swooning too. You just gotta do it subtly and intelligently dude. Have class.
Zachary Kelly
>I'm sorry guys but as I friend I need to tell you that you're all wrong and should at least read Wikipedia before talking about these things so openly because right now you're only flaunting your lack of knowledge. If you want I can explain things better or recommend some good books to read.
Its like knowing a friend smells like shit or has bad breath and never telling them because you don't want to hurt their feelings. You're only hurting them long term. Tell them they need to use deodorant and brush their teeth.
Michael Reyes
I asked a kid when was the war of 1812. Couldn’t give me an answer.
John Butler
>'Teaching' people through literal whataboutisms Fair enough, i suppose.
