What is the biggest historical lie (or hoax) that society tries to teach as real history?

[Anonymous]

I want to hear your opinions. It doesn't matter what it is. Please tell me what you consider to be the #1. If you are afraid of actually saying it, then you can say things related to it.

[Stoner710]

The idea that the Democrat party in the republican party had a magical switch in the 1960s and 70s and suddenly the racist started voting Republican and the non-racist started voting Democrat this did not happen. What happened was a generational shift of people saying that the Democrat party was a racist piece of shit party and so they started wanting to go against their parents who are racist and would join the republican party the racist state in the democrat party and the Democrat party is still the racist party they are just less obvious about it. A lot of people don’t recognize the soft bigotry of low expectations. Democrats tend to believe that Black people don’t have autonomy over their own actions and so we need to have laws that keep Black people down in order to make sure there equal. This is why BLM can get away with burning half the country but Republicans have 1 riot and there’s a federal investigation and they try to kick people off of there congressional committee assignments.

democrats play stupid games win stupid prizes go ahead kick marjorie Taylor Green off her committee assignments we will do the same thing to Ilhan Omar

[Anonymous]

That Abraham Lincoln was a good president, in reality, he was a dictator. Not debating the merits of what he did, but suggest watching the Documentary "Lincoln" to see how much he lied and how bad he really was. He lied to congress to get the 13th amendment passed, had he been truthful it would not of passed at the time. Had he not been assassinated he may never have stepped down.

Here is just a few things

Declaring martial law, arbitrarily arresting civilians and trying them by military tribunal, and shutting down opposition newspapers.

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States during the American Civil War, exercised extraordinary powers to preserve the Union. Lincoln's dictatorial actions included directly ordering the arrest and detention of dissenters and the suspension of the right to writs of habeas corpus.

Same thing with the Emancipation proclamation, it did not free all the slaves, like history says it did... it only freed them in Area's not under Union control. Border states that were on the Union side still got to keep their slaves and southern area's under Union control, was not freed there either.

That Abolitionists wanted to free the slaves and integrate them into society, but in reality they wanted to send them to Africa.

[Snsl153]

God, there are so many of them.
One of my favourites, and this may have been largely due to the anti-Christian bias of one historian in particular named Edward Gibbon, was that the fall of the Western half of the Roman Empire was largely due to the spread of Christianity. Supposedly it undermined the "masculine" character of the empire, because Christianity was seen by him, among many others, as stressing "feminine virtues" like pacifism (ex. "turn the other cheek").
Strange how the Eastern half (the Byzantine Empire) lasted until 1453, even though it had been Christianised earlier, and more thoroughly, than the West.

[yofuknutz]

That is strange indeed thank you for telling us.

[front2back]

Hellen Keller.

No way she was real in the way they said.
Child goes deaf and blind as a toddler, fails to learn ANY form of communication from multiple tutors, then some random woman comes along and by some miracle makes her figure it out? Despite the fact we've never been able to replicate it in other similar children? Also weird how she somehow managed to write books, all with a weird rather red bias that closely matches her tutor (*wink*), and once her tutor dies suddenly Hellen stops making books again (*wink* *wink*).

These days HK isn't nearly as much of a "hero" like she was taught in my time as a kid but the myth still persists.

[yofuknutz]

The question I have for her is she ever have sex for what I understood that drove her boyfriend away

[docster]

1. That Roman Catholicism is Christian.
2. That Jesus started Roman Catholicism.

When Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in 313 A. D., error started coming into Christianity when people from pagan religions brought their traditions and beliefs with them. This led to the formation of the pseudo-Christian cult we have now called Roman Catholicism.
Everyone, read the bible. Don't be deceived by the RCC and the media.

[BCRanger10]

1 and 2 are entirely true though...

[docster]

@BCRanger10 Well, we disagree. It mainly comes down to how sins are paid for. Christianity says that Jesus payed the FULL price for our sins on the cross almost 2000 years ago. Not through good works, repetitive prayers, penance, Mary, priests, or saints. Only Jesus can intercede between us and God and there's no one between us and Jesus.

Ephesians 2:8-9 You are saved by a gift of grace you get by faith. You didn't do it. It is God's gift. It isn't because of anything you have done, or you might boast.

Romans 3:23-26 All have sinned and are without God's glory. They become righteous by a gift of His love, by the ransom Christ Jesus paid to free them. God set Him up publicly to pour out His blood before God to take away sins through faith, to show His righteousness even though He had patiently passed by the sins done in the past. Now He wanted to show His righteousness, to be righteous Himself and make righteous anyone who believes in Jesus.

Romans 4: 4-6 If you work, your pay isn't considered a gift but a debt. But if instead of working you believe in Him who makes the ungodly righteous, your faith is counted as righteousness. So David calls the man happy who God counts righteous apart from what he does: Happy are you if your wrongs are forgiven and your sins are covered. Happy are you if the Lord doesn't count sins against you.

[jshm2]

That White people didn't do much killing, slaving or raping to others.

King Leopold II killed more people than Hitler, Mao and Stalin combined - all to enrich himself.

Only the Americans killed more in wiping out the Native Americans.

[Asker]

I have read and heard about Leopold II. He was brutal and terrible. Even worse was many people in Congo who survived had a hand or foot missing because that was punishment. He had it and everything in it considered his own private property. He also had many elephants killed for the ivory. I think every other European nation and his own kingdom when Belgium was a kingdom had to pressure him to turn it over to his government instead of treating it as his personal property. The worst people in history aren't really talked about because they didn't do something that started a geopolitical war.

[Agagagagaga]

Pity how the slave trade would have been impossible without Africans enslaving other Africans.

[Daniela1982]

That the world does not have the technology to give us clean air and water, abundant free energy, and the technology to feed the world.

[BCRanger10]

That Christmas and Easter are copies of pagan holidays.

[jennifer_bloom]

I would say it’s the origin of Christmas and I also read that there is no scientific data to indicate that Daniel in the bible ever existed.

[lofii]

That you should identify as a Democrat because you're poor and that the democratic party is here to help the lower class.

[Dargil]

Socialism. It has failed every time it has been tried. It is failing again.

[MCheetah]

The American Dream and/or Democracy in America.
It's always been run by Oligarchs.

[MCheetah]

I would've said religion; Christianity and Islam, but it's not taught as real history, "Thank God."

[OddBeMe]

1) That the US won WW2.
2) the south rebelled because of states rights.
3) commoners were being overtaxed and pushed around by the British.

[Anonymous]

That White people are responsible for slavery.

[Daniela1982]

You think that all the Slavers were black?

[Opinion Owner]

@Daniela1982 You think all the slavers were White?

If you think a bunch of white people from Europe were capable of marching through unknown territory surrounded by hostile African tribes while getting decimated by malaria snatched up people without the help of Africans capturing and enslaving other Africans, you don’t know history.

[Daniela1982]

They are the ones who owned the ships and crews. To them they were just picking up cargo to be sold in the New World. And yes, to make money men do dangerous things. But surely they were helped by certain blacks.

[Asker]

@Daniela1982 I think Europeans and Jews were Slave Traders but the actual Slavers were Africans. It would have been European Slave Traders would dock at ports they built when they colonized Africa, local African Slavers would bring their African Slaves, and then sell their slaves to the European and Jewish Slave Traders. It would have been impossible and too much of a risk to go around capturing and raiding towns and villages. Unfamiliar territory, risks of the slaves escaping, bugs with diseases, underdevelopment, and it's time consuming. They would have never been able to have a profitable business without local Africans bringing them the African Slaves.

[MrTaboo]

That covid was worste than the flu

[DWornock]

That the war between the states was over slavery.

[yofuknutz]

It was about taxes the Northeast was Heavy with them and the South light as a feather or air

[fireforeffect]

That the Crusades were Christian's fault.

[Razzmatazz09090]

Heliocentrism

[Snsl153]

Heliocentrism is correct. The Earth isn't the centre of the Solar System.