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Howdy r/badhistory! It's time for another edition of Modmail Madness. Every time the sub is mentioned or a thread from the sub is linked elsewhere on Reddit, we get a notification. We compile the best of those notifications for your enjoyment here. This compilation is a combination of notifications from November and December 2022. Let's get to it!
First up, a good breakdown of some common claims about the Franco-Flemish War, and one of the rare notifications that debunks bad history, instead of perpetuating it.
The French and Indian War was a part of the 7 Years' War and was always really about Britain and France, both of which had Indigenous allies, but according to this comment it was actually an Indigenous revolt.
This comment is a good breakdown of why the kinds of arguments people like Hancock make should have no bearing on history.
An "archaeologist" claims that the concerns of other actual archaeologists about Netflix's "Ancient Apocalypse" are totally not a problem, actually.
Inglorious Bastards isn't particularly historical to begin with, but you might have missed this particular inaccuracy if you aren't already a big baseball fan.
One man took it upon himself to explain to r/OrthodoxChristianity that they're all worshipping Saturn by mistake, which was maybe not as strong a claim as he thought it was.
Why would the Inca do something like build a site that is pretty cool and impressive? Because humans like cool and impressive things? Nope, obviously there's some proto-civilization or aliens or something going on.
And finally, you probably saw this one in the latest free for all thread, but if you missed it, we're a "gaggle of sanctimonious losers" because we keep telling people the Nazis were not, in fact, socialists.
Over the last two months, our most mentioned thread was, you guessed it, the one about Mother Teresa. She was linked to 30 unique threads (each thread mention counts only as one, regardless of how many times the same link is posted, or she would have 100 ). In second, a very seasonally appropriate Tis the Season for Bad History was linked to 16 unique threads. And finally, with 4 mentions, It's Just Another 12-Sided Brick in the Wall rounds out the top three. Altogether, 47 r/badhistory posts were linked in 89 unique conversations across Reddit.
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