Netflix Caught Promoting White Supremacist Propaganda

The war on science is in full swing as evidenced by a clueless crackpot clown who managed to get his insecurity promoted by Netflix.

Unavoidable problems in his script were easily picked apart by experts, who also posed the question how someone so obviously wrong could be spread by Netflix.

Most glaring to scholars investigating the history of Hancock’s pseudoarchaeology is that while claiming to “overthrow the paradigm of history,” he doesn’t acknowledge that his overarching theory is not new.

Scholars and journalists have pointed out that Hancock’s ideas recycle the long since discredited conclusions drawn by U.S. Congressman Ignatius Donnelly in his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, published in 1882.

That’s a pretty damning blow, which should crush the bogus anti-science mysticism…again.

The problem however is that the mysticism is propaganda meant to be a gateway to violent hate crimes.

Like many forms of pseudoarchaeology, these claims act to reinforce white supremacist ideas, stripping Indigenous people of their rich heritage and instead giving credit to aliens or White people. […] This sort of “race science” is outdated and has long since been debunked, especially given the strong links between Atlantis and Aryans proposed by several Nazi “archaeologists.”

Factually debunking weaponized white grievance propaganda pushed by Netflix is unlikely to be enough to stop expansion of dangerous terrorist cells now who already cared not a whit about truth — trying to feed them science could backfire.

Netflix should have known better than to fertilize Nazis with this, as the damage and cleanup will be very expensive.

I’ve written before here (back in 2008!) that people consuming poisonous conspiracy may become more devout and extreme if a scientist dares to directly challenge such beliefs.

The easiest option now may be for Netflix to retract the show, explicitly condemn it, air a science-based refutation without promoting directly or as a response (send it to people who didn’t watch the hate propaganda yet)… and then donate all related proceeds to anti-hate organizations that help track the consequences of this hateful propagandist being aired.

Perhaps that doesn’t sound easy, but the alternative is much harder as the Hearst network realized watching Kristallnacht in 1938 after they had been promoting Hitler in the years prior.

Con artists like this attacking institutions are extremely dangerous when left unchallenged, especially ones like Elon Musk who attack institutions from within.

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