Ryan Hanley

Well, I'll tell you what woke me up to the history was and it seems to have died down a little recently, but the Winston Churchill was the bad guy in World War Two argument that was going around for a while.

At first I was like, this just sounds like some stupid meme.

And then I saw like Constantine Kissin address it on Trigonometry.

It's a podcast that I really like.

I don't know if you're familiar with that one.

But he started addressing like, oh my God, this is actually like a widespread idea that people are perpetuating.

Like you have not read a single word of history

from that time if you are positioning Winston Churchill as the bad guy.

Now, if you want to make a full spectrum argument, was he a perfect human?

Certainly not.

He made plenty of bad decisions, but those were bad decisions as bombs are being dropped on his head

Yes.

While his people are dying in the streets from the Blitzkrieg, he's trying to make the best decisions he can with the information he has, and yeah, a couple of them didn't go the way that he wanted, and now we're going to position him as the bad guy?

Like, you've lost touch with history if that's an argument that you're willing to make.

And I know that the guy that ultimately that was started off of, that wasn't actually the argument he was made, he was taken out of context, I get all that part, but...

it just hit me how hard we have lost touch.

And then I was talking to a friend of mine who, you know, is a good dude, tends to skew a little more left, but in general a good dude.

And he made this off-the-cuff comment that blew me away.

It was something like he was referencing the early 1900s as if,

they were archaic, like Neanderthals, you know, drumming on wood and barely could understand fire.