Wow, this thread has an awful lot of various kinds of garbage trolls. The “anti-imperialist that loves RT” pseudo-leftists, the alt-right shitstains, and a heaping helping of “but actually” centrists. What a bloody mess. 

Greenwald is absolute trash, and there’s nothing progressive about that selfish, intellectually dishonest asshole. 

Is it weird? Yes. It is weirder than some of the other stuff “normal” people do around Christmas? No.

Smaller population could actually be a benefit in reducing spread, and I don’t think material culture complexity has any role here. Articles keep saying they’ve been isolated for tens of thousands of years but cultural connections with other nearby indigenous people make that pretty unlikely.

The tribe did have some outside contact back in the ‘60s I think it was, an Indian anthropologist and a small crew. I think the immunity angle has been overplayed in the media, though it’s definitely a concern. 

Lynchings and violence against Muslims are growing more and more common in India, and yes, occasionally Christians get targeted as well, but it’s just disgusting to see that group act like they are the real victims and merit all the attention. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have ties to Islamophobic groups, as many…

I’ve never been a high school history teacher, though I am more qualified than a pretty significant portion of the ones I’ve met, but when did dress-up become part of pedagogy? These are high school students. Even aside from the horrible judgement, the entire premise seems boggling. Bad judgement all the way down. 

When you tape a piece of paper saying “food stamps” on top of monopoly dollars? 

Listen, you could get PhD political scientists on a live-stream and there’s a pretty solid chance they make a few slip ups. The whole formal academic tone thing is a very particularly state of mind that isn’t always on, and everyone makes slips of the tongue. I made one a few weeks ago in the middle of my paper…

I mean...the fact that Egyptian history has large eras known as “Intermediate Periods” where the kingdom absolutely did fall, at least in part. The Second Intermediate Period had multiple dynasties active at the same time, including the non-Egyptian 14th and 15th dynasties (Canaanite/Semitic and Hyksos respectively)…

A “worldwide caliphate” is a particular variation of Islamist ideology, one mostly associated with Salafi-takfiri groups. You clearly do not have the requisite background to discuss this topic. 

Listen, if you don’t know the difference between liberal and illiberal democracies you’re not qualified to be trying to lecture ANYONE here. That comment makes clear you don’t. 

It is debatable how best to describe the Taliban (I personally would go for insurgency with extremist ideology mixed in as they use more conventional military tactics than terrorism tactics) but your categorization is a vast simplification of the role they play in Afghanistan, and they absolutely do commit attacks…

Yeah, they call it “fashwave”, which isn’t particularly clever. You’ll see that sort of imagery in a lot of neo-Nazi and fascist accounts. 

I have a degree in history troll, and experience in the Early Medieval period and in areas with a relatively paucity of sources. Don’t presume you can lecture me. I’m aware of the minority and largely discredited claim that Muhammad didn’t exist. I’m also aware of how little currency that has among scholars, though…

That photo so overwhelmingly screams “angry white privilege” it made my pale Irish ass feel threatened.

False. There’s no a single shred of evidence supporting the existence of Moses. That’s not true of Muhammad. This is just a bullshit talking points pushed regularly by anti-Muslim charlatans. 

Fun historical fact; the entire Exodus narrative is fiction and not backed up by any historical or archaeological evidence. There’s no evidence Moses existed. This is pure Christian revisionism.

“Neo-Nazi” is more accurate because there’s been ideological drift and influx since WWII. People who directly mimic the historical Nazi party and don’t accept any of the later developments in far-right ideology, whether from racist, anti-Semitic, or neo-Nazi movements, are very few. Most show inflow from other sources…

This is an intentional strategy by the filth of the alt-right. They directly try and appeal to stupid teenagers with edgelord tendencies, hoping that some of them will fully enter the ideological cesspit. Even if they only get 10% to stay in their ideology and the rest grow up and look back at this with horror, that…