Quite interesting to note that there’s a movement like the Flat Earthers, to discredit history and impose your own version of history on it.
This time round it is said that when Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape of Good Hope on the 6th of April 1652, he encountered a thriving Black civilization, only to destroy and subjugate it.
Think a bit on it. 3 little ships. 83 men. Versus an entire country full of people, farms, cities, you name it.
Yeah right.
Unfortunately this is starting to trend in popularity, even so that learned people are starting to take this as the gospel truth.
And history will not take kindly to this kind of tomfoolery.
Seeing some people out there claim aboriginal black people existed in the US before it was “discovered” as well. In addition to all the tribes living in perfectly peaceful harmony.
Hell, look at the mishistory that won a Pulitzer not that long ago, the 1619 Project has a very tenuous connection to reality.
There’s another movement that’s been around for a while that also falls apart with a little bit of logic. It’s the one that says the U.S. Government was turned into a business because of the phrasing in a law that included the word “incorporated” or something like it. This means that all elections after a certain date are illegal and therefore Joe Biden is not the President right now.
The little bit of logic that makes it fall apart is the people claiming this don’t realize, or they deliberately ignore, that it applies to Republicans and not just Democrats. I think it goes back to around FDR, so the following people have never been a legally-elected President of the U.S., according to this viewpoint:
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) - the “U.S. became a business” idea occurred during one of FDR’s four terms, so he is a legally-elected President for only some of his four terms of office. The rest of them were illegal elections and he was not president during those terms.
Harry S. Truman (D)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
John F. Kennedy (D)
Linden B. Johnson (D) - Sworn in as president due to the death of Kennedy. Not president due to being elected as vice president for JFK, whose election was illegal.
Richard Nixon (R)
Gerald Ford (R) - Sworn in as president after Nixon’s resignation. Not president due to being elected as vice president for Nixon, whose election was illegal.