re: Darryl Cooper, "America's most honest historian," returning to Tucker Carlson...

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Cooper claimed that the Nazis were "unprepared" to handle millions of prisoners of war and political dissidents, suggesting their brutality was a result of poor planning.

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Oh, yeah. I forgot about that part. Dude is hella stupid. It was official policy by the Wehrmacht to be as brutal toward their Red Army POWs as it was possible to be. All political officers they captured were ordered to be immediately executed, no trial or anything. For Nazi Germany Operation Barbarossa wasn't just a war of ideology, it was a race war. Hitler's thugs regarded Slavs as sub-human. They wanted to kill as many of them as possible, using the survivors as slave labor.

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I was always a big fan of Tucker but he really is wrong for giving this Cooper guy a platform for his insane theories.

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Bringing things to the light is how you find out the truth. If he says false things, it's a good time to debunk them and educate them.

If you just attack the messenger and never do that, then you validate them.

I've never listened to the guy, I think I'll give this episode a listen though. I like hearing alternative perspectives on events even when I don't agree with them.

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He's an entertainer, and a podcaster.

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Which is of course also true of Dan Carlin. And Joe Rogan himself.

Now, Mark Bowden and Annie Jacobsen are journalists by training, but they end up doing "history" in a journalistic style. Nobody is better than they are at what they do.

Likewise, Rush Limbaugh was a shock jock who flipped the political switch and set the world on fire.

"Credentialism" needs to go away, in all seriousness.

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This guy isn’t presenting “alternative perspectives” on the Second World War. He’s actually presenting ahistorical information and pretending it’s legitimate. If you enjoy fairytales about the Third Reich, then you’ll love his podcast.

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I already said I would listen to it, you don't have to sell me on it.

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"Credentialism" needs to go away, in all seriousness.

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Do you feel the same about doctors?
Lawyers?

To note, Journalists can write great popular history books.

Modern history is documented by journalists.

To paraphrase Durant, it's not history if it's too recent.
His works only go up to 1815, or 70 years before his own birth, anything more recent he considered as the realm of journalism.

This was because recent history has not settled, there are too many adherents and advocates.

Bowden is very much a good author in this sense.

I'm unfamiliar with Jacobsen's work.

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People may have their problem with him, but nobody else is doing 15 hour escapades on Jim Jones.

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That's because no one else really cares enough to do that.

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Darryl Cooper

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did they ever find the money after he jumped out of the plane?

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Bringing things to the light is how you find out the truth. If he says false things, it's a good time to debunk them and educate them.

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Tucker calls him the most honest historian, so it's being peddled as the truth. Tucker doesn't push back.

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I like hearing alternative perspectives on events even when I don't agree with them.

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Victor Davis Hansen (and others) outlined blatant lies told by Cooper during the last Tucker podcast. So, it's not simply an "alternative perspective"; it's lies. Do you like when someone is lying to your face? Because that's what Cooper and Tucker are doing.

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I was more against rewarding academics because they stay in school, don't rock the boat and publish.

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What makes a historian is a dedication to rigorous and well documented work.

That's why they have a deep bibliography, foot notes, appendix sections etc...

A work should stand by itself inclusive of its supporting documents.

Hansen is a classicist, he learned the rigor in his classics courses.

He's brilliant because hes a dedicated classicist.
He wasn't just born able to write military history.

That's the whole point of education, to learn the lessons of those who came before.

Its the far left that eschews training.
The woke lunatics reject the wisdom of those who came before, they violate the rules of their profession, no different than a doctor who does "gender affirming care".

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wasn’t down with Bolsheviks implementing LGBTQ and usury on his people/nation state.

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True. People dont know who the bolsheviks were and why they were hated. For one, they assassinated the czar.

Modern culture likes to believe the entire country was just racist against Slavs. That is dumb. Even to this day, people will act like the biggest assholes on the planet and use the excuse "you dont like me bc you are racist." That is an old bolshevik move.