Exterminate All The Brutes-HBO

[pdub]

It's still very legit.
Just imagine it's more focused.
I don't think they are making up any of the stories presented at all - they just aren't commenting on all human terror/mass murder/enslavement.

A few sentences in the early narration would have cleared up/legitimized what they are trying to present in the series.

In KUBB terms, it'd be like a documentary called the Golden Age and it was a four part series about Bill Self at KU but didn't mention any prior coaches or seasons.

[jhawks99]

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.

You mean Genghis Khan wasn't a saint?


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.

Hardcore History rules. WWI is probably the best of his series. 5 or 6 episodes of about 3 hours each but well worth it. Fall of the Roman Republic was excellent as well.

[Deleted User 89]

tangentially related...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/estimated-death ... 1441118361

[pdub]

Yes, I was going to mention the Rwandan genocide of not that long ago.

[TDub]

tangentially related...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/estimated-death ... 1441118361

Wonder where Vesuvius/pompeii fall on that scale.

[Deleted User 89]

the other figure for which we’ll never really have an accurate number for, is the number of American Indians wiped out (directly and indirectly) due to the colonizing if the new world

[Deleted User 89]

tangentially related...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/estimated-death ... 1441118361

Wonder where Vesuvius/pompeii fall on that scale.

it’s in there...16K in a day

[TDub]

the other figure for which we’ll never really have an accurate number for, is the number of American Indians wiped out (directly and indirectly) due to the colonizing if the new world

Obviously smaller scale but the natives did a pretty good job of obliterating each others tribes/factions too, and taking slaves and wives etc. Historically we are a brutal species

[TDub]

tangentially related...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/estimated-death ... 1441118361

Wonder where Vesuvius/pompeii fall on that scale.

it’s in there...16K in a day

Ahh there it is....i cant read.

[Overlander]

The Heart of Darkness/Apacolypse Now relationship has always amazed me.

[Deleted User 89]

the other figure for which we’ll never really have an accurate number for, is the number of American Indians wiped out (directly and indirectly) due to the colonizing if the new world

Obviously smaller scale but the natives did a pretty good job of obliterating each others tribes/factions too, and taking slaves and wives etc. Historically we are a brutal species

relatively speaking, though, those numbers would be insignificant

[TDub]

the other figure for which we’ll never really have an accurate number for, is the number of American Indians wiped out (directly and indirectly) due to the colonizing if the new world

Obviously smaller scale but the natives did a pretty good job of obliterating each others tribes/factions too, and taking slaves and wives etc. Historically we are a brutal species

relatively speaking, though, those numbers would be insignificant

Not insignificant to those peoples at that time. But yes.

[pdub]

I read the book The Autumn of the Black Snake a bit ago detailing early British/French Indian wars and the transition to the early US government and establishment of an army to handle Native American uprisings/attacks.

Lot of holyshit violence in there including beheading children/infant colonists and putting their heads on spikes, all pointing west.

[PhDhawk]

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

I thought Mao and Stalin actually took the #1 and #2 spot?

Maybe those were just mass murders and not specifically genocides?

[jfish26]

This is a very odd thread, even for here and even for April.

[Deleted User 89]

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

I thought Mao and Stalin actually took the #1 and #2 spot?

Maybe those were just mass murders and not specifically genocides?

i was citing wikipedia, so...

[CrimsonNBlue]

This is a very odd thread, even for here and even for April.

I’d say par for the course lately.

[Deleted User 89]

it’s pdub’s fault

[pdub]

Sorry that it doesn't work for the both of you and doesn't speak to exactly what you wish a thread could be.

We'll try harder to be exactly what you want and discuss only things that don't bother you.

[Deleted User 89]

personally, i think this is a great thread

it prompted me to do some research, so i learned some new things

i still blame you though, pdub