exercises in omgwtfbbq TV

[lanning]

When I was home sick a couple days ago, I stumbled across a mini-marathon of a show called America Unearthed, so I stared at it for a while. The host explores the remains of various ancient (pre-colonization) stone structures scattered throughout North America, and endeavors to determine which white people built them

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[lamardeuse]

Yeah, J loves that stuff, and after he'd seen a couple of episodes of it, he was like, "this is absolute crap archaeology" and didn't want to watch any more.

[lanning]

It is totally crap archaeology. The History channel is full of crap history and crap archaeology -- but this is probably the most egregiously racist crap archaeology I've seen so far.

[capnzebbie]

I've watched every one of those, and I spend the entire episode disagreeing with my tv. Like, "No it doesn't." "Well, that's just wrong." "There are other explanations." "Your reasoning is--not reasoning." "You're a fucking idiot." (I think that last argument is the most persuasive)

[lanning]

It is. There is no reasoning involved -- it's all wish-fulfillment, blithe white supremacist shenanigans and conspiracy theories. There's precious little history on the History Channel these days.

[capnzebbie]

I call H2 "the weird shit channel," because all it has is weird shit. And yet, I watch it all LOL! I love Ancient Aliens with it's blanket explanation for everything being, "Aliens did it."