The WORST 'History' Channel on Youtube and the 'History Reclaimed' Movement

Let's look at the right-wing history channel WhatifAltHist, and the broader trends in historical studies that it represents.

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[Gapil]

"bullshit idea of free speech" lol

[francescotangredi]

I remember when he said that women were less "intellectually oriented" than men and showed as an example that the overwhelming majority of his viewers were male

[donalddude]

His map of these countries shouldn't exist was that the country is a product of colonialism and if the native tribes were allowed they would have formed an entirely different country. He said the same about Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh which exist because of British imperialism. There was nothing racist about it.

[iodopovidona]

Even most of WhatIfAltHitler's viewers considers him a joker. I will always laugh at how he bragged about dropping out of college and how that was as bold a decision as his ancestors crossing the atlantic.

[reddawn]

"spends all day making racist maps" lmao

[dragon_ninja_]

Other than his very bad takes on history, I have another problem with him. Still calls himself Whatifalthist even though he doesn’t do alternate history anymore which I originally watched him for.

[dophhead]

his channel is 80% right-wing cope pseudo-science and 20% high school presentation level maps

[bob-lket]

TIK is deeply ideological when it comes to anything related too the social sciences (duh hes a lolbertarian) but his military analysis of the eastern front if pretty good considering how loonytoon levels of ridiculous he could've been prone too considering his social beliefs
Finnishbolshivik has an entire series addressing TIK

[richardcrosby]

His content hasn't just been getting progressively worse over time, it's been spiraling rapidly down all sorts of extreme-right rabbit holes. These days he sounds like a confused, frustrated, and edgy incel kid who can't decide whether he wants to be a fascist, a conservative, a theocrat, a colonialist, or a libertarian. Like he's just aimlessly bouncing up and down all over the far right and hoping that he sticks onto something. It's really sad and pathetic to see. His content has become so negative. It's awful.

[AceXINFAMY]

“History reclaimed” aka “history rewritten”

[sugarfatpie]

Wish you had taken a deeper dive into this. Hard to debunk superficial history with superficial criticism

[TRD]

Comrade his Opinion on Communism "As a failed religion". Has no base and he makes up generalization after Generalization which is ridiculous and plain deaf and dumb. His whole channel he makes up generalizations and racist comments about things in History like in the Colonial era. Says a lot about him as an intellectual YouTuber and a person as a whole. He never sites his sources either.

[nebojsag.]

TIK is an ancap lunatic to end all ancap lunatics, but his narrowly military-history oriented videos are some of the best online history content, period.

[georgekostaras]

I really used to love alternate history and history channels. Then I realized that so many of them were either frauds or reactionaries.

[LjubicaServaas]

Kings and Generals is a CIA front. They have their scripts written by Turgut Gambar, a guy who works for the NED.

[hnder]

This guy's videos are as much History as Ancient Aliens.

[Eltipoquevisteayer]

He is just so little self aware for his own good

[poil]

ironic a bunch whinging about other people waging cultural wars while busy openly waging cultural war's themsleves.

[Taczy]

I do not agree with the notion that "because I do not like what those people say or think it should not be allowed" "do not tolerate the intolerable". What makes it better that one side who objectively think they are right, should disallow the oppositions viewpoints purely because they think it is a objectively dangerous notion. Its not hiding the facets under the guise of free speech, even discussing about the removal of it is a dangerous notion. To say as such should be regarded as alarming.

[Iceclipsrlul]

History Reclaimed: Ah yes, let's debias history by whitewashing it