"Hunting Atlantis" disappeared from Discovery's schedule, vanishing without a trace, just like its namesake continent. Meanwhile, Lue Elizondo has a lucrative new gig.
Citation: "the Atlantis myth has long been used in support of colonialist, imperialist, and racist narrative, including the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the Anglo-American expansionist colonialism the Age of Empires, and Nazi searchers for the Aryan homeland." -- I am sorry, but this is factually not true. Spanish and British colonialists did not base their claims on Atlantis theories. Not at all. The Spanish colonialists even explicitly rejected this idea very officially. -- There is a little truth in the claim that National Socialists searched for Atlantis, but these were not "the Nazis" but only single Nazis with personal Atlantis beliefs, just like single communists claiming that Atlantis was real (without communism as such having to do anything with Atlantis, of course). -- I am still shocked, absolutely shocked, that readers of this blog expressed the opinion that the Holocaust allegedly was just a genocide like any other genocide, and allegedly not driven by pseudoscience but by tribalism.
Citation: "the Atlantis myth has long been used in support of colonialist, imperialist, and racist narrative, including the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the Anglo-American expansionist colonialism the Age of Empires, and Nazi searchers for the Aryan homeland." -- I am sorry, but this is factually not true. Spanish and British colonialists did not base their claims on Atlantis theories. Not at all. The Spanish colonialists even explicitly rejected this idea very officially. -- There is a little truth in the claim that National Socialists searched for Atlantis, but these were not "the Nazis" but only single Nazis with personal Atlantis beliefs, just like single communists claiming that Atlantis was real (without communism as such having to do anything with Atlantis, of course). -- I am still shocked, absolutely shocked, that readers of this blog expressed the opinion that the Holocaust allegedly was just a genocide like any other genocide, and allegedly not driven by pseudoscience but by tribalism.