What are the worst most inaccurate things you have heard someone say about history that wasn't a joke?
I've heard this one yesterday.
"Americans attacked japs with incest gas during ww2 so jap soldiers started having sex with each other and did lost the war"
>>1062197
And this happened in a class in a law school.
>>1062197
"The Holy roman Empire is neither Holy Roman or an Empire"
>>1062197
Mate I think this guy was fucking with everyone
>>1062237
No he was totally serious.
>>1062189
>le-ghazali caused the end of Muslims doing science XD
Neil Degrasse Tyson should not be allowed to talk about anything other than pop science.
>>1062252
You sure he wasn't just being ironic?
>>1062272
You have no idea about amount of historical revisionism in muslim countries.
>>1062189
Thrusting/Stabbing was not used to kill a man in plate armour. The proof is modern Battle of the Nations fighters not thrusting to win a fight.
Said right here at few months ago.
Heard this gem in Native American History class from a group presentation:
The colonial elites brainwashed the commoners to hate the Indians.
Even my border line Marxist teacher had to face palm that.
>>1062197
would explain a lot actually
Marx's prediction that nationalism would have fizzled out by the end of the 20th century and all national differences would be erased.
>>1062189
>If Hitler hadn't made [MISTAKE X] Germany would have won the war!
Double points for when the suggested alternative is impossible or idiotic.
Be on trip to Society for Military History convention in Tenn.
Stop for cigarettes at a gas station in Nashville. To get cigs have to give my birth date (12/10).
Kid behind the counter -- college age -- clearly trying to impress his girl co-worker, says, "Wasn't that the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?"
After some soul searching (I didn't want to make him feel bad) I corrected him. The girl says, "At least he got the year right."
>>1062275
which country?
>>1062379
What autist would think knowing such a trivial fact would impress anyone?
>>1062392
Turkey. That guy was a Kurd but it doesn't matter a Kurd or a Turk when it comes to historical revisionism.
>>1062236
>what was ww1 about?
>idk, it involved napoleon though so it must've been a 150 years ago.
>>1062396
The poster you're replying to explained that he is a member of a organization made up of autists interested in trivial facts
>>1062197
You do realize America weaponized faggotry right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
>>1062456
>Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon—the so-called 'gay bomb' / 'poof bomb' — that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other."[12]
>won the Nobel Peace Prize
>>1062474
Ig Nobel prize. It's satirical
"Asians, whites and australians stole black culture and history and left Africans with nothing." -Student in my freshman english class at a UC
>>1063350
Partly true, Africa has been shat on for centuries by whites and arabs
>>1063350
>and australians
What, like aboriginals? If not, having said white makes that redundant.
Should've turned to the camera and asked "what did she mean by this?"
>>1063382
Africa has been shat on by Africans mostly
