Andrew Klavan dismantles viral TikTok myths, rejecting the claim that the Declaration was signed August 2nd and defending Thomas Edison's light bulb invention against Louis Latimer. He dismisses the Spanish Flu origin theory as racist, clarifies the Emancipation Proclamation applied only to Confederate states before the 13th Amendment, and mocks architectural comparisons between Notre Dame and settler cabins. Klavan also debunks the false notion that Congress made Confederate veterans U.S. veterans in 1958 and links ancient Illinois civilization theories to anti-Semitic tropes, concluding that these revisionist narratives lack historical validity. [Automatically generated summary]
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Another, another one of these videos where I have to watch TikTok videos.
I mean, it's really, really, it's like one day you are going to turn this, one of these videos on and I'm just going to, it's just going to be my feet swinging back and forth.
It's like anything but watching these TikTok videos.
Today's TikTok videos, what are they?
They're videos in which people debunk historical lies.
All right, let's take a look at the first one.
These are historical facts that we were taught as children that are without a doubt not true.
The Declaration of Independence was not signed on July 4th.
1776.
It was signed on August 2nd, 1776.
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb?
Absolutely not.
He was the inventor of the patent for the light bulb and the longest lasting light bulb, but there were a multitude of other people who were making light bulbs like Louis Latimer, Humphrey Davy, multiple other people.
The Spanish flu originated in Spain.
No, the first ever reported case was in Kansas, United States.
It was mislabeled because racism.
This one's crazy.
No people were burned at the stake during the witch trials.
Absolutely nobody was burned at the stake.
They were all either hung or unfortunately killed by other means.
Eight that we were taught this last one.
In a blanket statement, we were taught that Abraham Lincoln freed all of the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation.
But that's not true.
He only freed a lot of the slaves in the Confederate States, and it wasn't until Congress passed the 13th Amendment in 1865 that all of the slaves were freed, legally speaking.
At this point, we just all need to go back to school and just rewrite all the curriculum because we were.
Fed lies.
So, first of all, take the ring out of your nose.
What's this?
This is, you want the truth?
The truth is, take the ring out of your nose.
You will look better with, you're not going to look great, but you're going to look better with the ring out of your nose.
That's the important thing.
Thomas Edison, you know, I hear this a lot about Thomas Edison.
Thomas Edison was my hero when I was a kid, so I read all the books in the library about Thomas Edison.
And Of course, people were inventing things at the same time as Thomas Edison.
Most inventions are not found by one guy.
There are people racing to get there.
Edison invented the first really usable light bulb.
So the fact that other people invented light bulbs is not the same thing.
Edison actually deserves to be called the inventor of the light bulb.
One of the people that they want to give credit to is black.
So that's why they're making a big fuss about this.
All of the rest of them, I don't know why they matter, why they even matter.
The Mancivation Proclamation did indeed free the slaves.
Most of the northern states did not have institutionalized slavery.
But of course, you know, there was also the 13th Amendment.
It's not like what she's saying is actually untrue factually, anything that I caught, but it's all meaningless.
It's all like, who cares?
Why would you have to go back to school for that?
Is that a fair assessment?
Let's watch another one.
History is a lie.
Majority of the stuff that we are taught in school is a lie.
Because when you start to put two and two together, shit ain't adding up.
So, you mean to tell me that 18th century settlers who rode around in stuff like this, who lived in houses like this, I mean, it's not a bad house, but it's not like amazing.
But, you mean to tell me these are the same kind of people that built structures like this?
That doesn't make sense to me.
The architecture is not matching up.
This cathedral is called Notre Dame.
I hope I pronounced that correctly.
But it's located in Paris, France.
And this, this right here, Was built in 1163.
But you're going to tell me that in the 1700s, they were living in this.
When they could build stuff like that, they didn't build that.
Who built it?
So I'm stupider now than when I started watching that video.
I was like, I was actually starting to achieve a level of, I was almost walking upright and using rude tools.
But now I think I've been cast back into stupidity.
The cathedrals of Europe were built by the greatest civilization on earth as it was nearing its heights by huge, huge numbers of workers working sometimes over generations with some of the great designs of the world.
The cabins out in the wilderness were built by wilderness people.
By the way, the ones she's showing, I mean, a lot of these guys were living in caves, but they were built by.
Individuals with a hammer and a nail chopping down trees.
So, one of that's why one of them looks like one thing and one of them looks like the other.
At the same time, back east in America, they were building more sophisticated buildings.
And I'm just barely getting those out because I've become so stupid from watching that video that I'm now losing the capacity to speak.
So, maybe if I'm lucky, I'll lose the capacity to see and I won't have to watch this next one.
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All right, so it's time for your inconvenient historical factoid of the day.
Now, I want to address something that I've seen going around a lot.
I'm a Civil War reenactor, I'm the descendant of Confederate veterans, and I study the Civil War quite extensively.
And one of the ridiculous things that you see quite often in this community is the claim that people make that Confederate veterans were made by an act of Congress United States veterans in 1958.
Well, let me address that.
They were not.
So the law that most of these people that make this claim cannot cite and have not read did not and would not state that because it doesn't make any sense.
Confederate veterans.
While they were American veterans, it was the Confederate States of America, they were not U.S. veterans.
That's the people they fought against.
They would not have been wanted, they would not have wanted to be made U.S. veterans.
They were Confederate veterans.
Now, some of them did go on to serve in the U.S. Army after the Civil War, and some served in before the Civil War, which would make them, in fact, U.S. veterans as well as Confederate veterans.
But there was no law that made them Confederate veterans.
That's really interesting because I never had heard that.
And now, so I never believed it.
And now that I've watched this.
I'm convinced by this guy and I don't believe him.
I swear.
I believe you.
So I'm exactly the same place.
I had to travel from one place to another.
I could have gone out for a drink.
I could have been having a scotch with my friends, smoking a cigar, but instead I watched this guy debunk a piece of information that I never had.
But I thank him.
He was very convincing and I completely believe him.
So I'm right back where I started.
All right.
Here it says, Tucker speaks the truth.
Why are we being told lies?
Those are two statements.
You know, I think those two statements go together.
Tucker speaks the truth is the first statement.
And then the second statement.
Is in response to that, why are you telling the lie that Tucker speaks the truth?
All right, let's hear it.
The current version of history that we've been told is not only incomplete, it's just wrong.
It's just flat out wrong.
Whether there were big civilizations in Illinois 10,000 years ago, which there were, by the way, how could we not know that?
We sent a man to the moon and you can't replicate the technology that created the canyon.
You don't have any good guesses to how they were built?
We don't.
We don't even know when they were built.
But why would anyone care for suggesting that our historical timelines were wrong and there had, in fact, been advanced civilizations?
In earlier moments in time, and that they had been eliminated somehow through climactic events, through natural disasters, and that we're not aware of that in any detail.
Kind of seems to be true.
Why don't we know that?
And what does it tell us about ourselves and about the past that we don't know?
That's what I would think people would ask.
And I know that what I learned as a kid is wrong.
What do we know about ancient civilizations?
And the answer is like basically nothing.
Did you read about Tartaria?
What on earth was that man babbling about?
And how does it have to do with his hating Jews?
That's what I want to know.
What is he babbling about?
We are aware that there were civilizations of actually fairly interesting primitive civilizations that were advanced in certain ways and not others.
Listen, all you got to know is that ancient Greece existed where they thought of everything.
There's nothing that you can think of that wasn't thought of in ancient Greece, which is just amazing.
But what is he talking about?
I guess he must be talking about aliens.
It's got to be what it is, right?
Because the guy is a lupin.
He's just a loopy guy, you know.
I was waiting for him to go, and that's why I hate the Jews.
But apparently he never got to that.
Are we done?
Are we finished?
I'm exactly where I started before.
I know that Tucker's a schmuck, and I know that people built little houses on the prairie.
And I know that the same thing about the Confederates I knew before, that they wore gray uniforms.
So I'm exactly where I was when we started out.
And Edison invented the light bulb.
complete waste of my time and I can only hope for vengeance's sake that it's been a waste of your time as well.
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