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Re:Londoner solves 20k-year Ice Age drawings mystery by permo-w on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:49PM (#34265493)
for your logic to hold up, the proposed earlier civilisations would have to be white, otherwise what would be the point? a non-white civilisation inspired by a non-white civilisation is still non-white. if he was going around proposing that some real historical figure corresponding to Zeus or Odin had founded civilisation, then I'd agree with you, but he's not. last I remember, he was suggesting they were some kind of survivor(s) of a lost civilisation in the Americas somewhere

do you think it's possible that you're seeing things through an overly racial lens?

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Re:Londoner solves 20k-year Ice Age drawings mystery by thechao on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:22AM (#34271298)
Nope. The actual archeological community has called him out over the years. I’m assuming he’s in it for the money.

    https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2022/12/ancient-apocalypse-summary-of-the-series-from-a-professional-pov/
Here’s Feagans about page:

    https://ahotcupofjoe.net/about-2/
I heard about Hancock pandering the show from Ed Barnhart’s podcast:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Barnhart
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Re:Londoner solves 20k-year Ice Age drawings mystery by KMag on Saturday January 07, 2023 @06:36AM (#34287167)
The first link cites Fingerprints of the Gods, chapter 14 as racist, but doesn't give any quotations. I haven't read any of Hancock's books, and I have far better things to do with my time (apparently, among them, browsing HN).

If he's really making clearly racist statements, it would be good to see the quotes. If one needs to read the whole chapter to see the racism in some holistic interpretation, then perhaps there's a lot of ambiguity there.

I've seen video clips of Hancock here and there, and he strikes me as a smart guy who gets a kick of fooling average people. However, none of the clips I've seen seems racist.

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