Comments by "AQuietNight" (@AQuietNight) on "Dan Carlin" channel.

Ask Max if his father will ever do History Of The World Part 2. No on can do history like Mel Brooks does. The detail, the depth, the deep research Mel did is impressive. Even Dan could learn something.
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He went very easy on the people who brought in the product to the docks to be loaded on the ship. You would expect a people who had no connection to the product buying the product up and shipping them off to other lands. The suppliers took neighbors and even friends, rounded them up and sent them to the docks. And off they went counting their money. And that horror is never discussed.
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The problem with these types of histories is they usually center on the Atlantic slave trade but none of the others. The Ottomans only get an occasional mention in passing.
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John Rabe fell on very hard times after the war ended. When citizens of Nanking found out about it, they raised money and sent food to help him along. The movie John Rabe is worth viewing.
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Most of these people just see a new episode and comment before listening to it.
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Separating out the transatlantic slave trade from the history of slavery in general will create a political view. It is like discussing the war in Ukraine right now. Many people have said Ukraine is at fault unaware of the wars and incidents that proceeded the current conflict.
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I was amused that Dan seemed shocked blacks owned black slaves. Why wouldn't they?
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It is pointless to blame the South anymore, you now have from the enlightened types of the Left/Progressive movement trying to create new caste systems in the United States including new racial quotas. These people are active in the north, the west coast, Democrat run cities, etc., not so much just in the south any longer. It is all a continuation of the things you have spoken about from ancient times, people really do not like each other. The people who think we can just talk it out are usually comfortable middle class types who have read about conflict but actually never dealt with it.
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@cobchob You are benefitting from exploited labor too. You are free to give all that up and go find some undeveloped piece of woodlands and live like a primitive. One benefit of exploited labor is it gives you the luxury of parading around empathy instead spending your years scratching a living from a piece of land not willing to give you anything and being surrounded by people who may have had no problem stealing what little you had. You know, the fantasyland people like you think existed in the past.
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Theodore Roosevelt drank up to 4 pots of coffee a day.
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A million histories on war and that hasn't stopped war. Histories in many societies only creates centuries old grudges. Sometimes history needs to be forgotten.
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It was White Supremacists that ran riot through many parts of the country burning down buildings a few summers ago. None were wearing MAGA hats and were pretty friendly to Progressive causes.
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Burnt out stone buildings create a greater visual effect than a burnt out flat land?
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You have negation taking place by limiting the subject to just one time period and location. We still have war so your theory on learning from history has been negated as well. Keep in mind learning from history has kept many groups carrying on conflict for decades if not centuries.
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@CPLRedmond "but you’re on the right step of developing the understand of what might be next" I do not think that is happening either. My prime point was the slave trade discussion is usually limited to the Atlantic when it was a worldwide thing done for thousands of years. The only new thing the Europeans added was the ability to do it on a production line basis over a sustained period. Slavery was always brutal and so bad in the Old Testament God pronounced laws to protect slaves from abusive behavior.
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@Dimitris_Half Slavery has been discussed. And discussed. And discussed. It is not some well hidden secret. The constant discussion of slavery hasn't helped Blacks but conditions them to be seen as some sort of cosmic losers. Every failure is because of 400 years of slavery, not lack of other qualities that insure success. We are down to the point you can not even expect them to master grammar, no doubt a by product of slavery. The obsession with slavery insures the success of failure.
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@aarontpassmore If you are into that sort of stuff, just read the news and save the $18.00. It's fresh and it's real.
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@aarontpassmore The news is about as good as a lot of history. As for questions, the only time I'll probably ever quote RT America: "Question more" :)
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@aarontpassmore He left out everything about slavery outside of the Atlantic trade. The Atlantic trade hasn't been hidden but has been discussed widely. The rest, not so much. The impression left is that slavery only occurred there and no where else. Combine that with a romanticizing tribal, people start thinking only Europeans were doing horrible stuff. In many ways, Europeans adapted and changed to events around them. They eventually learned (to quote Mel Brooks) it is good to be the king. There are historians that feel Colombus got a bad rap. Much of the history about him is quoted from his enemies and they had no intentions of saying anything nice. It would be fair to say he was a better navigator than a administrator. Good at finding places that may make for great empires, he was the last man you wanted to run it. I have to appreciate the very people who claim they are oppressed today are the same people claiming they didn't get their share of the Colombus loot :)
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Rosa Parks wasn't an innocent, she was a plant. Based on the same model as John T. Scopes used in the Scopes Money Trial.
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I agree with you.
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@kratospwns241 The first slave owner in America was Black. He told other plantation owners you'd all be fools not to use them. The twists of history.
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Many wars and societal disruption are because of history being told and retold. Telling the stories of past wars hasn't stopped wars has it? I enjoy history and have done so for decades because sometimes history shouldn't be told, but forgotten.
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His World War1 series was quite good and at times you feel you were listening about a medieval war.
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Some country would have developed an atomic weapon at some point in time and no doubt would have used it. The two bombs actually used in war were both small and less powerful but at least we know what they can do. While it is an easy argument to use the affects of the bombs on trapped little girls in the two cities bombed, many through out Asian had virtually the same done to their children. It doesn't require an atomic bomb to start a firestorm in a city. The fiery death of a little girl caused by an atomic bomb is no more worse than the fiery death of a little girl caused by a conventional bomb dropped from the sky. As to occasional argument over the use of the atomic bombs and the moral dilemmas posed by their use, I pretty much sum up as it is regretful World War 2 ever occurred.
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It just isn't good history unless there are a few chapters on plagues.
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No mack in donia
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@mrnarason The Japanese had a soft spot for the British. Their love of things Chinese was so yesterday. Countries like Germany was today. When they decided to tour China in the 1930's , it was in part because they felt rejected by the west and they intended to show they were not the small change of civilization currency.
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His World War 1 series was pretty grim but did have a little less death in it. It would have been an ideal one to leave up free as an introduction to what Carlin does plus it keeps alive the history of an important but forgotten war.
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@dustinbrown6483 My father served in the Pacific. He could never bring himself to talk about his experiences. It was very clear he didn't enjoy himself. I did find out from someone else he ended his military service in the occupation forces. I asked him about his time in occupation service and how did he find the Japanese (I was expecting a "war" story). He responded with: They were very nice people and they treated him very well. I admit at the time I was a bit disappointed. No John Wayne there but his expression seemed to be one of surprise, as though he was still dealing with his two strongly contrasting experiences with the Japanese. I remember the look on his face when I asked about the battle lines, clearly it was an awful time. Carlin may not have been as gratuitous as you may think.
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Chandra Bose was a scum bag.
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