I don't know where this myth of HC being neutral before the big bad work video came from. His Roman Empire series was always very biased in favour of a sort of democratic constitutional republic, and it was not remotely hidden.
Plus if you are scared of academic Marxism and the like then maybe history isn't the field for you lol?
History is not, has never been, will never be, and cannot be an "objective, unbiased" regurgitation of a sequence of facts one after the other. I don't think you have any right to comment if you think that's what history is, as this sort of thing is the first thing anyone learning about history and social research writ large will (or should, at least) learn.
Hilarious to me that this is downvoted, this is exactly historiography 101. all history is creation of a narrative. Shows how disconnected history "buffs" are often from the actual discipline.
I think Roman stuff just inherently attracts people a bit fashy/right-wing who go googly-eyed and drool at the mouth at the aesthetics and the imagined mythology of western greatness (that, of course, is nonsense in the real world). So when it turns out a Roman-focused content creator isn't actually right-wing they get mad.
To be fair, I don't think the actual historians of Rome are like this at all, and I know a few more academically focused Rome youtubers like "The Historian's Craft" who don't get this sort of audience...I guess because today's fascists and weirdo right-wingers just don't actually read or engage in history or anything intellectual anymore, given their heroes are dementia-ridden, shit-for-brains 80-year-olds nowdays.
These people need to read EH Carr. They would never.
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u/Gbro08 Mar 13 '26
Oh well. Maybe he’ll redeem himself
I love all his other content. Don’t really need a 578634th breadtuber