I think this is it.
The historians I know of actually seem to lean quite left of the average person; it’s the light hobbieists, who are often more interested in the aesthetics/surface stuff, who seem to fall victim to the alt-right stuff.
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qprimed@lemmy.ml 3 months agosomeone genuinely interested for intellectual reasons would likely not fall for it. I would imagine that a non-trivial percentage of “antiquity enjoyers” are very light on history substance and heavy on history feelz.
once the appropriate brain tickles have been pushed into their heads their “history substance” feed content becomes decidedly propagandized.
The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Honestly I’m a light hobbyist myself. My exposure to history is primarily via YouTube channels like the excellent Historia Civilis (their series on Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Roman Republic is stunning) and via games like Age of Empires.
sculd@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Agreed. Anyone who studies history should understand why Trumpism is bad and unsustainable.
But a lot of people are just in for the historical “aesthetics”.
aleph@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Aesthetics, plus the seductive appeal that pre-modern, pre-liberal-democratic societies (where the women were submissive and “the men were men”) have for reactionaries, incels, and cryptofacists.