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Exterminate All The Brutes-HBO
Anyone else watching this series?
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No, but it looks incredible!
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The first episode is good. Loaded with history which is my kinda show.
Issue with the heart of the premise, at least from what the narrator says, is that white Europeans were the only ones to subjugate another people to a lower level of human and enslave and/or exterminate them which is not true.
Humans with power throughout history, albeit on a smaller scale in terms of populations, have been brutal to each other.
Issue with the heart of the premise, at least from what the narrator says, is that white Europeans were the only ones to subjugate another people to a lower level of human and enslave and/or exterminate them which is not true.
Humans with power throughout history, albeit on a smaller scale in terms of populations, have been brutal to each other.
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Yeah, i am assuming that the series will delve deeper into other areas of this. History is full of them.pdub wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:01 am The first episode is good. Loaded with history which is my kinda show.
Issue with the heart of the premise, at least from what the narrator says, is that white Europeans were the only ones to subjugate another people to a lower level of human and enslave and/or exterminate them which is not true.
Humans with power throughout history, albeit on a smaller scale in terms of populations, have been brutal to each other.
However, europeans definitely perfected the art.
"The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn’t gold.” Tolstoy
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You mean Genghis Khan wasn't a saint?pdub wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:01 am The first episode is good. Loaded with history which is my kinda show.
Issue with the heart of the premise, at least from what the narrator says, is that white Europeans were the only ones to subjugate another people to a lower level of human and enslave and/or exterminate them which is not true.
Humans with power throughout history, albeit on a smaller scale in terms of populations, have been brutal to each other.
On another note, the Dan Carlin podcast (hardcore history i think?) Does a 5 or 6 part series on Genghis Khan. Fucking fantastic. Its like 18 or 20 hours of podcast though.
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There was a lot of mass murder in Asia before the Europeans even were a thing.
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and then someOverlander wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:32 amYeah, i am assuming that the series will delve deeper into other areas of this. History is full of them.pdub wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:01 am The first episode is good. Loaded with history which is my kinda show.
Issue with the heart of the premise, at least from what the narrator says, is that white Europeans were the only ones to subjugate another people to a lower level of human and enslave and/or exterminate them which is not true.
Humans with power throughout history, albeit on a smaller scale in terms of populations, have been brutal to each other.
However, europeans definitely perfected the art.
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The Egyptians were pretty good at it.
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i just googled “worst genocides in history”
nazis have #1 and 2
but yes, that doesn’t take slavery into account, which the pharaohs were quite adept at
maybe as many as 9 million died during the crusades
around 9 million during nazi reign (Jews + Poles)
an estimated 2 million slaves died just on the voyages from Africa to N. America
nazis have #1 and 2
but yes, that doesn’t take slavery into account, which the pharaohs were quite adept at
maybe as many as 9 million died during the crusades
around 9 million during nazi reign (Jews + Poles)
an estimated 2 million slaves died just on the voyages from Africa to N. America
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Genghis khans forces killed an estimated 40 million
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Could very well have been more.
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So if its HALF that historical estimate than its still more than double the highest number you provided. Youre right, no way of knowing but he wiped out entire cities and populations as he conqueredTraditionKU wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:39 amand much like the Pharoahs, that estimate is really a shot in the dark
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it could be as many as 60 million. i wasn’t trying to downplay the number, just pointing out how unreliable it isTDub wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:41 amSo if its HALF that historical estimate than its still more than double the highest number you provided. Youre right, no way of knowing but he wiped out entire cities and populations as he conqueredTraditionKU wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:39 amand much like the Pharoahs, that estimate is really a shot in the dark
and, if you’re citing that, then you’d have to put WWII atop all numbers, with 60-120 million
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Thats a little different. Not a single force/regime conqueror
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Well, in this particular case, or pertaining to the show, nor are 'the Europeans'.
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This series is specifically based around a book based on another book.
Exterminate the Brutes > Heart of Darkness.
So I don't think it will explore anything more beyond white colonialism, which still has so much info/history that can't fit into a four hour mini-series, but from the original episode, the narration that this behavior was unique to white Europeans is very misleading.
All said, it is their documentary so they can present it however they want.
Exterminate the Brutes > Heart of Darkness.
So I don't think it will explore anything more beyond white colonialism, which still has so much info/history that can't fit into a four hour mini-series, but from the original episode, the narration that this behavior was unique to white Europeans is very misleading.
All said, it is their documentary so they can present it however they want.
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kinda ceases to be a legit documentary then, right?pdub wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:55 am This series is specifically based around a book based on another book.
Exterminate the Brutes > Heart of Darkness.
So I don't think it will explore anything more beyond white colonialism, which still has so much info/history that can't fit into a four hour mini-series, but from the original episode, the narration that this behavior was unique to white Europeans is very misleading.
All said, it is their documentary so they can present it however they want.
more akin to historical fiction?