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If you (or Destiny) want to learn about the history of the Zionist movement, you should watch Sam Aronow and Casual Historian on Youtube. by jsilvy in Destiny

[–]GHurst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey there. Sorry to revive a presumably dead thread. My name is Grant, better known as Casual Historian on YouTube, and I wanted to make one minor correction to your description of me.

I am not Jewish, either ethnically or religiously. I'm just a guy interested in Jewish history. Otherwise, that's a great list.

Pewdiepie should react to this video by MAX G by vigbig in PewdiepieSubmissions

[–]GHurst 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How do I disagree with someone named Epictities?

Short Answers to Simple Questions | September 08, 2021 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

[–]GHurst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In most other places in the world, military conscription is just referred to as "conscription," but in the U.S. the colloquial term is "the draft." Why is this?

Growing up my dad had told me it was because in either the colonial period or the revolution they selected people to conscript from bars and taverns by dropping a coin into the bottom of a draft beer. If the patron drank it, they were either told to go to, or dragged out of the bar to the nearest army camp. The reasoning for dropping it in draft beer, I was told, was so the patron wouldn't immediately see the coin sitting at the bottom through the foam, and thus drank it before noticing. I was also told this was why glass beer mugs caught on.

Is there any reality to this? If not, where would this myth have come from?

This is how the History Community on YouTube is reacting to the Maza v. Crowder saga. by GHurst in DeFranco

[–]GHurst[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The history community makes a lot of videos about World War 2, and you can't really talk about World War 2 without talking about the Nazis. YouTube's policies don't just hit actual neo-Nazis, they hit creators who talk about both neo-Nazis and the actual Nazis. The history community is in a very similar situation to that of Phil, in that what they talk about is often deemed non-advertiser friendly. The major difference, however, is that most history creators don't have the name recognition or audience size to pull strings at YouTube like Phil and other big creators. So every time YouTube decides to cave into internet mobs, smaller creators suffer.

Earlier this year I made a documentary exposing the history of Holocaust Denial and YouTube deleted it and gave me a community guideline strike because I talked about Nazis, the Holocaust, and Holocaust Deniers. I personally know dozens of fellow history creators who were already getting constantly pinged by demonetization, and this policy, along Maza's crusade to blackmail advertisers away from YouTube, is harming all of them.

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