When it comes to /sci/ence, you can see there are basically two types of posters. Those who know what they're talking about and those who don't. The people who know what they're talking about research a lot into a particular subject and know their shit, they are very well deep into Math and other very hard stuff of their field. Those who don't know their shit make embarrassing posts and get called out as pseudo-science, pop-science, highschoolers, dumb people in general.
I can see this is not the same with /his/tory and humanities, because it requires little technical knowledge to post anything. I could start a thread about the American Revolution and it would be hard to point out if I have little knowledge on the subject. There is no Math to history & humanities, nobody to test if I know all the Linear Algebra theorems, etc. What I am trying to say is that it's easy for anyone to pose as someone well read in History & Humanities, someone might think they know History because they play a lot of EU4 and HoI3, etc, anyone can post here with very little knowledge.
Assuming what I said is true, what do /his/torians think of this? Does it cause any problems to the community of Historians like those in college, or the History community as a whole, that most these communities are visited by people with little technical knowledge of the field? Doesn't it cause /his/ to be a generally low quality board when compared to, say, /sci/? What do you think of this in general?
As a Physicist, I am glad there is no EU4 or AoEII equivalent of Physics.
>>3109396
Actually I want the original source of this. I'm genuinely curious
>>3109396
It means pseuds are rampant and classes at the college level are inundated with frat boys who know Cs get degrees.
You can post with little knowledge, but there's still a very clear line between someone that has a high school understanding of the Revolution and someone that's done in-depth study of the subject. You'll still get called out on here if you act like you know shit when you really don't.
I feel that this board is just more open to people that are just looking to learn. Threads asking broad questions or requesting resources to study are commonplace. It's still very possible to have in-depth discussions, however.
Reminder that white people used black children as alligator bait in Florida during slavery.
>“Alligator Bait” is the term drives [sic] from an activity conducted by white men, mostly in the swamps of Louisiana and Florida throughout the south. These white people were sick beyond belief. These alligator hunters needed to lure the larger bull alligators with human flesh and blood. During the slave era, our ancestors in America were only considered 3/5 of a human being. Which is why these sick hunters had no regard for human life! The alligator hunters kidnapped black infants, skinned them alive, and tied their neck to a string and dropped them into a swamp! Dangling them near the mouths of hungry 700 pound alligators! These black babies were stolen, caged and fed to alligators whole! The activity is retold in various forms in researched documents, many found in the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Michigan.
That doesn't make sense
A baby would be a better bait if it was kept alive, unlike adults it can't escape. If they're dead, why not get adults and slice them into pieces?
Well I guess adults have been properly fed and taught manual labor, it's a pretty big investment for bait.
>>3109386
obviously jewish lies about something that never occured as the white man can do no wrong but also the black deserved it
Why do black people have partially white hands? Is there some evolutionary reason for this?
considering /pol/fest tonight, I expect nothing but another LE NIGGER SSA bullshit
>inb4 five days on front page
>>3109308
TIRED: Blacks are secretly white
WIRED: Asians are secretly white
Everyone has little to no melanin on the palms of their hands, it's just more noticeable for people with darker skin tones.
How did the Haitian Revolution succeed where so many other slave revolutions failed?
>>3109224
bump
there might have been some sort of tribal cohesion left from Africa
The practice in Brazil was to mix the ethnic groups
>>3109224
Without looking to closely at it, I would reckon that Haiti is isolated enough that there wasn't any way to quickly bring in reinforcements to suppress the rebellion. There is also the matter of the comparatively high ratio of slaves versus a smaller number of white people.
This is in contrast to slave rebellions in the US where the army could respond quickly, and there were enough white people around that blacks were always outnumbered no matter where they were.
Do we still live under the shadow cast by World War II? What will it take for us to move on?
>>3109213
>Do we still live under the shadow cast by World War II?
Yes. The cold war and its hysteria is being inflamed today
>What will it take for us to move on?
A real holocaust
>>3109213
>What will it take for us to move on?
Space colonization.
Just like how Europe lived in the shadow of the fall of Rome until the discovery of the Americas and the age of colonialism.
>>3109399
>rome is the same as ww2
Why was it so cool?
>Sir Henry de Bohun (died 23 June 1314) was an English knight, the grandson of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford. He was killed on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn by Robert the Bruce. Riding in the vanguard of heavy cavalry, de Bohun caught sight of the Scottish king who was mounted on a small palfrey (ane gay palfray Li till and joly) armed only with a battle-axe. De Bohun lowered his lance and charged, but Bruce stood his ground. At the last moment Bruce manoeuvred his mount nimbly to one side, stood up in his stirrups and hit de Bohun so hard with his axe that he split his helmet and head in two. Despite the great risk the King had taken, he merely expressed regret that he had broken the shaft of his favourite axe
Have a non lazy bump.
Interesting fact about Robert the Bruce: when he died his heart was embalmed and kept in a silver box. When Scots went off to war in future his heart was paraded before the troops to inspire them with the courage of the warrior king. The Braveheart so to speak. Braveheart is full of historical innacuracies but the glaring one is the title of the bloody film itself. ( it's as good as an American film, filmed in Ireland, starring an Australian set in medieval Scotland could realistically be.)
So pumped for this new Robert the Bruce film in the works currently. They were casting for Scottish men with beards in my city recently. Assuming your in Scotland it's in Melrose abbey and the box itself is in the national museum in Edinburgh.
>>3109199
>scuckland
>cool
lmao
fucking slave race
>Big Man James' Wacky Fiefdom
Why is direct, deliberate suicide outside of certain cultural contexts considered dishonorable, self centered or cowardly?
Is there a biological or even inherent moral imperative to self preservation?
I'm not trying to be edgy, btw. I'm just trying to understand.
>>3109108
Some circumstances allow for suicide to be the most honorable path.
wtf you mean man?
>All cultures are constant
tropical climates are bad for civilizations
discuss
>>3109071
t. snownigger
>>3109073
>t. most powerful civilizations of all time
lol
>>3109082
Not because it was colder.
So I noticed that this obsession with nordicism and "whiteness" seems to be a bigger thing that goes beyond /pol/ and stormfront. Virtually every anthropology and related forums, blogs, sites, etc have this feature of obsession with nordicism and with giving over 9000 arguments about who is white, who isn't and other nonsense. Like "my granpa had blue eyes, therefore he was germanic and therefore I'm white".
I thought it was /pol/ trolls but it seems that this thing is everywhere.
What's the reason of this? Is it a modern phenomena or is it present since the early days of internet?
Has it a social basis? Or is it just a fashion nowadays?
>>3109035
Varg
It's an american thing
Before WE WUZ it was MUH HERITAGE
>>3109035
clearly aesthetic reasons
it's not like you are gonna see "Arabicism" and people wanting to have hairy brown bodies while being proud of having black pube neckbeards with dark brown eyes
>13 stars
>13 stripes
>13 olives
>13 arrows
>13 letters in e pluribus unum
Jesus fucking Christ we get it there were 13 colonies.
How cute, they get participations stars
To be fair you'd probably be baffled too that you actually managed to get independence from a Great Power.
>>3108968
It's also a nice prime number.
Is there any historical leader that could beat Teddy Roosevelt in a fist fight?
nope
>>3108933
Teddy was the most alpha president.
literally /hisfitlit/
>>3108933
Probably Maximinus Thrax.
Who fell for the history teacher meme? I'm 5 years in and getting pretty disillusioned. My experience has been in affluent white suburban areas in the USA.
What you think it will be...
>do what you love
>help your country
>help kids
>be a positive role model
>summers off
>decent hours
What you get
>shit pay
>female bosses
>micromanaged to death
>asshole parents who foist their spawns off on you
>retarded state/national legislation which makes your job more difficult
>terrible curriculum that basically ensures the kids learn as little as possible
>you need to work in the summer because you don't get paid enough during the year
>grading all the time at home, if you only work 40 hours a week you are really not doing your job at all
There are some moments where you can tell you are really making a difference and the kids really appreciate what you are doing but its by no means an easy job
Is it too much to ask to be paid enough to support a family? Why doesn't this country value education?
Anyone else know the struggle?
>>3108881
I'm not a teacher but I can certainly see how you guys get fucked. Thanks for trying your best I guess.
I remember being in school and taking interest in certain things but not really being able to delve deeper into them with a teacher because they had no time.
>asshole parents who foist their spawn onto you
>hurrf durrf I'm gonna become a teacher even though I hate kids
You deserve all the bullshit that happens to you OP.
>>3108946
>You should like dealing with shitheels with no understanding of consequences
When did you realized modern society drinks everything except water?
> hundreds of soda brands
> hundreds brands of energy drinks
> coffe,macchiato espresso,cappuccino etc..
> blond beer, black beer, vodka/tequilla + beer
> Ice tee, nestea,arizona tea
And my favourite
> flavoured water
But water is in all of things. All of that stuff is still basically water. Thales was right.
>>3108760
most people still drink water, they just have more options for non water drinks
>>3108760
Bottled water is one of the biggest businesses in the entire beverage industry.
>people are taught the statues were always marble-white to perpetrate white supremacy
>btw western civ isn't real
White genocide is real.
>>3108720
Why are americans so fucked up?
>>3108720
>first world problems
How is it that classic fashions look so good compared with those of today?
>>3108678
Your own personal yearning for tradition
>>3108678
Those fucking fabrics must be hellish in hot weather. I'd rather stick to my t-shirt and jeans than stink of sweat 24/7.
>>3108689
nope, purely aesthetics, modern conventions have the majority of people looking like bums