As a historian watching the latest Johnny Harris video I was disturbed. Johnny has a laudable goal of wanting to show the origins of European colonialism. But he cuts so many corners, that history is sacrificed on the altar of storytelling. In doing so he presents warped version of what actually happened.
The video in question: https://youtu.be/vLpSeMlfZ60
00:00 - 00:30 - Johnny Harris Lies To You
00:30 - 01:18 - Johnny's Vid
01:18 - 04:32 - Europe as a dark dark place
04:32 - 05:10 - Portugal's Expansion
05:10 - 10:28 - Columbus Didn't Invent Colonialism
10:28 - 11:37 - A Note on Depicting Native peoples
11:37 - 13:07 - A Compliment For Johnny Harris
13:07 - 15:59 - The Limits of Storytelling
15:59 - 16:24 - Acknowledgements
Sources:
Mohamed Adhikari - Europe’s First Settler Colonial Incursion into Africa: The Genocide of Aboriginal Canary Islanders
David Haddock & Lynne Kiesling - The Black Death and Property Rights
Jeffrey Barton Russel - Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians
Government Finance and Imposition of Serfdom after the Black Death
Margaret E. Peters
Carla Phillips and William D. Phillips - The Worlds of Colombus
https://dhayton.haverford.edu/blog/2014/12/02/washington-irvings-columbus-and-the-flat-earth/
Youtube:
Why People think the world is flat: https://youtu.be/IwJzsE8CvzQ
I'm a Journalist Who Hates The News https://youtu.be/BkUH2tP8PYw
Johnny Harris: A Story of YouTube Propaganda https://youtu.be/Dum0bqWfiGw (I used Tom Nichols analysis of JH critique of the media)
Should I Sue Johnny Harris? https://youtu.be/Ow49P0Qk2_o
Imperial's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/IMPERIALYT-1
Faultine's channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Faultlinevideos
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