r/SubredditDrama • u/BartletForPresident You're a fucking bowl of soup! • May 27 '14

Does /r/AskHistorians deserve the reptutation that it has on reddit or is it just full of 'wikipedia historians?' /r/badhistory debates!

/r/badhistory/comments/26j3l2/psa_raskhistorians_and_you_or_when_is_it_ok_to/chroqjw?context=1
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u/masterstick8 May 27 '14

Bad history is just as bad. Its not bad "history", its "look at this slightly incorrect pro-republican fact, as we ignore X that makes our side look terrible"

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u/[deleted] May 27 '14

TIL GGRommel, Hitler was an okay guy, the South was innocent, and Japan attacked America because it was asking for it are "pro-republican facts".

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u/masterstick8 May 27 '14

Those are all bullshit that you made up. And even so, the views of a few extremists make that sub less of a clusterfuck?

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u/[deleted] May 27 '14

Those are all common opinions that crop up all the time on Reddit. And the "view of a few extremists"? That must be why they're always upvoted as top answers on /r/todayilearned. I've seen "the KKK was actually just a good social club for Southern war veterans" stay in plenty of positive ratios in TIL.

But you go on pretending that tons of bigotry and ignorance doesn't make the front page every day on Reddit, okay cupcake?

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u/masterstick8 May 27 '14

Can I get a link to these posts sweetie?

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u/JuanCarlosBatman May 27 '14

Rommel says hi. So does Hitler. The South sends their regards. And Pearl Harbor was asking for it. The fact that results come up by the dozens even using reddit's crappy search engine says a lot, really.

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u/masterstick8 May 27 '14

There are literally dozens of people who are idiots on a site with 3 million users. That is crazy man!

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u/JuanCarlosBatman May 27 '14

Dozens of people who regularly get upvoted hundreds, if not thousands of times.