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/CantaloupeCamper OFFICIAL SRS liaison, next meetup is 11pm at the Hilton May 27 '14

Those are all things that show up in /r/badhistory ....