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@iamxevicho5170

16 күн бұрын

A new Assassin's Creed game trailer dropped, it's called AC: Shadows set in feudal Japan.

@secretname2670

16 күн бұрын

metatron, I have a question, have you seen the wikipedia article titled "Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece" or "Homosexuality in ancient Greece"? Truth? Lies? I'm afraid youtube won't let me post the link.

@secretname2670

16 күн бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece

@michelguevara151

16 күн бұрын

the fact that he doesn't seem to understand that 'wakanda' is not a culture but a fictional backstory from a comic book makes him ridiculous

@MotivationDaily_Quotes

16 күн бұрын

When a professor ignores facts, he/she is willfully misinforming students, there's an agenda against the truth.

any professor who compares Greek mythology to a comic book should be fired. Wakanda isnt African mythology, it was created by two jewish guys in 1966 ffs

@SusCalvin

16 күн бұрын

There's always some jungian every generation who wants to draw it all into the great universal myth.

@kostasbiker9302

16 күн бұрын

Every single time

@PackHunter117

16 күн бұрын

No way really? All the roads lead back to the Jews it seems if you catch my drift

@katnerd6712

16 күн бұрын

@@PackHunter117 It was Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. One is the father of the classic Marvel comics the other was the co-creator of Captain America. Two men that made stories about hope, heroic ideals, and striving to help others. If you want to apply your conspiracy theories you might want to pick INDIVIDUALS who actually embody something negative.

@PackHunter117

16 күн бұрын

@@katnerd6712 Alright you’re right and that would be a different argument and subject than what’s discussed in the video. Didn’t know they were Jews but I guess that shouldn’t surprise me

That's not a professor, that's an activist.

@birchmandells

10 күн бұрын

He identifies as a professor

@cuchulainn3474

9 күн бұрын

Anyone, involved in academia today, is a political activist. They wouldn't have the job otherwise. Anyone, involved in politics today, is a lobbyist for a corporation (or religious minority). They wouldn't have the job otherwise. Any non African origin working in the westhas their job through affirmative action. They wouldn't have their job otherwise. Meritocracy is now dead, which was one of the major foundations of the western civilization.

@Qba86

9 күн бұрын

In and of itself there's nothing wrong with being an academic and an activist. If you're doing biomedical research you might also be an activist in raising awareness on issues of public health. If you're an environmental biologist investigating endangered ecosystems, you might simultanously be an activist fighting to protect them. If you're a climate scientist... you're probably fed up with debunking the same old climate denialist BS over, and over again etc. One basic condition though -- don't bend or misrepresent the state of knowledge in any given academic field when doing the activist stuff.

@autisticphaglosophy7128

9 күн бұрын

Most academics in the humanities think exactly like this.

@RealWheelDrive39

8 күн бұрын

@@Qba86 If youre a climate scientist you know youre pushing bs propaganda just to make us pay higher taxes.. because aparently theres no other solution to climate change other than extreme taxation.

I like how he forgets how the Persian empire became so multiethnic. It wasn't because they were so awesome all the neighboring states asked to join them.

@tom_demarco

4 күн бұрын

The Persians were awesome

@rannenw6207

3 күн бұрын

​@tom_demarco They were also a culture and empire built on the colonization and enslavement of others around them. Most, if not all members of the Persian empire, were brought to heel by the sword.

@briton3851

2 күн бұрын

@@tom_demarcono they weren’t, they were pathetic

@Holtijaar

2 күн бұрын

And of course he wouldn't dare to mention that Persians themselves weren't black at all, and probably would not have non-persian commanders in their ranks. They looked similar to modern Iranians.

@tom_demarco

2 күн бұрын

@@rannenw6207 cyrus abolished slavery. You are just making shit up

As soon as someone uses the word "problematic", you know exactly what kind of agenda they're about to push.

@dagoogler01

Күн бұрын

Anything that opposes the gay, racially preferential, socialist revolution

@leroysanchino

10 сағат бұрын

The truth is problematic

So he's supposed to be talking about history and proceeds to fawn over Black Panther? Yup, he's one of *those* professors.

@thatlittlevoice6354

16 күн бұрын

He's a huge fan of the BBC.

@Michel411

16 күн бұрын

Plenty professors like that unfortunately. I had to write detailed essays on Wakanda for two different classes during my undergraduate degree. Ridiculous.

@sauron69447

16 күн бұрын

@@thatlittlevoice6354 😂😂😂

@doyouwanttogivemelekiss3097

16 күн бұрын

​@@thatlittlevoice6354 ah, yes, the British broadcasting corporation. I've heard of them.

@everydayisabadday

16 күн бұрын

@@thatlittlevoice6354 The veiny kind!

Sparta being exclusionary and isolationist = bad. Wakanda being exclusionary and isolationist = YAAASSSS

@thebreadbringer9522

14 күн бұрын

I'm always astonished with how stupid that sort of thing is. So there's this hyper-advanced African society that just chose not to do anything about slavery, both within and outside of Africa? It reminds me of how the wizards in Harry Potter just ignored WWII, and we're not supposed to think they're horrible people.

@Inastewpopotogo

14 күн бұрын

@@thebreadbringer9522 yes, also not sharing their welth and medics

@minizimi3790

14 күн бұрын

The worst part is, that isolation view is literally condemned in the movie.

@zenster1097

14 күн бұрын

Because of race.

@nekmewxelagrowing6432

13 күн бұрын

Who knows they might have been selling them too. wakanda does seem to be ritch with being hidden and no outside trade just saying...

This "professor" does know that Black Panther and 300 were comic books right...??? People like this that don't under stand storytelling always disappoint me.

@clairehann2681

6 күн бұрын

And supposedly it the entire point of his doctorate. It's really unsettling how political these people are. Complete lack of academic integrity

Can we also acknowledge that in the movie 300, Leonidas, THE MAIN Spartan, was fairly kind towards Ephialtes and the man betrayed them because he wasn't allowed to fight alongside the Spartans, which Leonidas prefaced by showcasing how Ephialtes wasn't *physically fit* for their shield-strategy the "professor" described. It wasn't even ableism or "beauty standards", it was not endangering the other soldiers.

@MWK19790

8 күн бұрын

What i always wondered. Why didn't they put Ephialtes on the far left of the formation?

@user-dy9bi8vd4i

7 күн бұрын

@@MWK19790 because he would die instantly. His deformed back is not covered from the shield.

@Astavyastataa

7 күн бұрын

It is ableism and ableism is good.

@Vo_Siri

2 күн бұрын

​​​Ableism is discrimination in spite of practicality. A lame hunchback being physically unable to serve in a phalanx isn't ableism. If Leonidas had denied Ephialtes a role that Ephialtes was entirely capable of performing, solely on the basis of "cripple bad", then it would be ableism, and it would be bad.

@Astavyastataa

2 күн бұрын

@@Vo_Siri pretty sure he would have been exposed at birth and thus dead had he been born in Sparta.

"Half of the Mediterranean is Africa and we forget that." No, just people like this professor who forget that N. Africa, the Mediterranean portion, is not black.

@ududy22

15 күн бұрын

It's Africa, but it's not THAT Africa. The Sahara was quite an obstacle for trade and culture for most of history.

@Vicus_of_Utrecht

15 күн бұрын

Berbers!

@Vicus_of_Utrecht

15 күн бұрын

​@@ududy22 I legit can't imagine how humans made it across. It amazes me.

@raynatumbeva780

15 күн бұрын

​@@Vicus_of_Utrecht well, they followed water. Namely The Nile. It provided sort of a "bridge" with liveable conditions.

@chazzitz-wh4ly

15 күн бұрын

Liberal white people believe all of Africa is black.

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.” ― George Orwell

@aj.j5833

16 күн бұрын

They are Useful Fools. Term coined in Russia and got miss translated to Useful Idiot in English. Fool and idiot is different.

@noxplay4906

16 күн бұрын

Like those Marxist college professors. More concerned with theoreticals and hypotheses than actual practical application and objective truth

@Ragnar452

16 күн бұрын

Does that mean intellectuals have low IQ? I am unsure what intellectual means at this point. I know there are low IQ educated people but I hesitate to call them intellectuals. What is a higher IQ and educated person then? What do we call that person? I call this professor an impostor or a charlatan.

@sd4568

16 күн бұрын

This guy seems extremely Machiavellian so I'm not sure if he even believes half of what he's saying, he just recognizes that saying the "right" things will gain him status and power.

@atticstattic

16 күн бұрын

Misquote. "I have heard it confidently stated, for instance, that the American troops had been brought to Europe not to fight the Germans but to crush an English revolution. **One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool…**

Why are modern historians so out of touch when it comes to African culture, so many uses Black Panther as a peak point in African history. It's a Marvel comic, it's fiction.

@Drikkerbadevand

4 күн бұрын

Its because while african history and culture exists and is interesting, it PALES in comparison to european history and accomplishments. So instead of just embracing what they have they cope by making up a fictional world where their racism shines through

@blisterfingers8169

Күн бұрын

Created by a pair of Jewish guys.

As a Black person myself...it is tiring to inject African continent into EVERYother cultures history.

@user-fe2nk3qz2j

6 күн бұрын

… and then cry about cultural appropriation.

@nikkin.9206

3 күн бұрын

Black history IS world history! ALL life began In African! Black Africans PRE DATE RACE! go read a book! Pythagoras studies in Africa for TEN YEARS! they told him it should've been TWENTY!! It's a reason Black people dominate in art, music, athletics, math, and more! LEARN YOUR HISTORY!

@Holtijaar

2 күн бұрын

And it is absolutely racist and patronising to do so. As if Africans or African Americans had no noteworthy stories, characters or history.

@GeekGamer666

Күн бұрын

@@Holtijaar This is my point every time the topic comes up. I want to learn about great people from African nations not see a historically non-black figure made black for political reasons. It's lazy, it's bad storytelling, and it craps all over the legitimately interesting histories from Africa that haven't gotten as much attention as they deserve.

The greatest gay army in the planet?? That would be the Navy.

@whatadollslife

16 күн бұрын

Good one 😂

@noxplay4906

16 күн бұрын

Except they're actual manly, strong and brave gay dudes. So I respect them

@RyanG0899

16 күн бұрын

​@@noxplay4906The Spartans had 10 times the testosterone the Navy has

@jonathanmora8208

16 күн бұрын

IN THE NAVY!!!!!! IN THE NAVY!!!!!

@Evonas4

16 күн бұрын

You mean the Marines.​@@RyanG0899

I genuinely wonder how African people feel that he would rather use Wakanda, a fictional culture and country from western comic books, to discuss African history rather then actually discuss real African Cultures.

@DonVigaDeFierro

15 күн бұрын

Any content they do is not meant to be consumed outside their western, liberal, urbanized bubbles.

@laisphinto6372

15 күн бұрын

Its disgusting in my opinion especially when IT comes from african American for crying Out loud despite making man ape Not wear His Gorilla costume they Made His entire Clan make monkey noices during a discussion Not even the man ape in the Comics make monkey noices all the time. Also its very americanized Sure they butchered some thousands different cultural window Dressing into IT but IT IS very clearly african American Not real african

@kobiee2x137

15 күн бұрын

@@DonVigaDeFierro what?

@holypaladin4657

15 күн бұрын

@@kobiee2x137 He’s saying professor doesn’t actually give a damn what Africans think.

@kevinlawler3252

15 күн бұрын

@kobiee2x137 🤣 tttkktt

I'm a classical archaeologist and to me this "professor" is an absolute joke. The stuff he's coming out with was ridiculous. He is definitely pandering to the modern ideals of gender and race. Thank you for taking the time to call him out!

I'm an educator in NYC.. this is what education seems to be all over the city...it's a lot of nonsense in place of the academic content.

@MrVvulf

6 күн бұрын

The de facto mantra of modern education administrators - "Don't teach how to think, teach what to think."

He doesn't like the "Racism" in 300, but loves it in Black Panther.

@Maybeabandaid9

15 күн бұрын

Would like but the like number is on point.

@MrMetonicus

15 күн бұрын

@@Maybeabandaid9 - What was the number

@xentionX

15 күн бұрын

@@MrMetonicus probably 69

@Maybeabandaid9

15 күн бұрын

@@MrMetonicus 69

@StallionStudios1234

15 күн бұрын

Lol that funny. Dunno why a real Historian would start talking about comic books. Kida pointless.

He's an activist revisionist.

@billmelater6470

16 күн бұрын

@@JHimminy No, "revisionist" just means that you reinterpret history for your own purposes, with or without any evidence. One's relation relative to "authority" is a nonsense metric. This is to say that it is not wrong to push against the accepted orthodox position but that facts make one correct, not bias or position relative to others.

@tomekkruk6147

16 күн бұрын

Nah, he's just a coward afraid of loosing his job.

@moonboogien8908

16 күн бұрын

​@@tomekkruk6147bingo

@yoeyyoey8937

16 күн бұрын

The Medusa bit wasn’t revisionism tho. That’s actually close to what the myth reflects.

@billmelater6470

16 күн бұрын

@@yoeyyoey8937 Ah, so nothing he said was revisionist then.

Someone check this professors hard drive. Man hides secrets

It always annoys me when people try to project their political/social views and opinions upon stories or history that have nothing to do with them, even if I agree with those views. It always feels like dishonest and a bit insulting to other's intelligence. This guy's presence and the devious way he uses information really disturbed me. That is intelectual dishonesty and bias. Good job debunking him, man.

I'm tired of our history and mythology getting pillaged by some politically motivated bozos. Thank you metatron for exposing them.

@mekingtiger9095

16 күн бұрын

The world post 2016 has been an utter disaster.

@popeyethepirate5473

16 күн бұрын

The cultural revolution has begun

@jstevinik3261

16 күн бұрын

@@mekingtiger9095 Thanks to the Republicans.

@LordVader1094

16 күн бұрын

@@jstevinik3261 Yes, definitely only because of them and nobody else as well lol

@richard_from_england333

16 күн бұрын

​@@jstevinik3261They Them

So the Spartans, samurai, viking, pirates, crusaders and cowboys were all gay, but the zulu were super straight and so hyper masculine that they never bothered to invent the wheel?

@ulfskinn1458

16 күн бұрын

Innovation and civilization and industry and music and table manners and gunpowder and quality textiles and masonry and carpentry and marine navigation and cartography and theology and philosophy and the written word and the legal system and the rights of man and germ theory and public charity and rules of war and the printing press and property rights were too gay for them to even think about. They were too busy being hyper-chads, bench pressing 400 and 360° no-scope chucking spears.

@PorchBandit

16 күн бұрын

🤔 why? would we not want to call African people gay for some reason? If they were gay we should be praising them, no? Oh right because many African cultures are deeply homophobic but we still need to appease them for some reason.

@jeffw5733

16 күн бұрын

Don't forget they were also black or included black people

@dontbothertoreply9755

15 күн бұрын

Wheel is gae it resembles the femminists form.

@Saufs0ldat

15 күн бұрын

Wheels are overrated. What are you going to use them for without any animals around to draw carts?

The movie 300 was entertaining as a fantasy movie based on a real event. If you take it as a historical record, it is problematic because the movie portrayed both sides as fantasy archetypes. The Persians are literally monsters, and the Spartans are freedom fighting superheroes.

@Justsegarra

11 күн бұрын

He can't see that. The wokes are out to get him, apparently. Clown

How does 300 disparage against the deformed? First, Leonidas showed ephialtes respect and even complimented his training. However, he had him do a small test and explained how his deformity is a detriment to the phalanx. Even then, Leonidas told him that he can still help in a supporting role in a respectful manner. Even today disabled people are barred from military service due to the strain it puts on the body. Leonidas did everything right.

Professor condemns European whitewashing of African history, then complains about Europeans teaching African history...

@scratthesquirrel5242

16 күн бұрын

to him it right or wrong doesnt matter, as long as it serves his most holy of politics

@tiestofalljays

16 күн бұрын

@scrattthesquirrel5242 You’ve just perfectly described the vocal left in the USA. Bravo.

@rhetorical1488

16 күн бұрын

@@scratthesquirrel5242 teaches in NY. all you need to know for an accurate picture

@jeffw5733

16 күн бұрын

@@eastcoastsailingcenter7768 Who all made points, except you. So you're definitely the triggered one.

@oxylepy2

15 күн бұрын

Man, there is being an ally, and then there's taking up all the oxygen in the room pretending to be one.

This guy is a great example for why many Americans no longer respect a college education.

@ConradAinger

15 күн бұрын

The same applies on this side of the Atlantic. By his speech, the guy is English. So I am slightly embarrassed 🤨☹️

@alphaomega154

15 күн бұрын

while metatron agitated with every pro black sentiments he finds in internet, im agitated with every sentiments that refers U.S citizens as "americans". because they are NOT. you want to see "americans"? look at the south americas. bolivia, venezuela, chile etc. where you can easily find REDSKINS people dominated the populations. thats AMERICANS. the U.S full of europeans and anything else that is NOT "redskins". there is barely any americans in the U.S and canada because they genocided them in the past.

@brammeijboom-mj9ld

15 күн бұрын

you only meet him in college if you do theatre as a mayor, he's not in the history/archeology field but in the threatre/literature field.

@janwilson9485

15 күн бұрын

American professors are often not as qualified as European ones. I think its something like all college lecturers are classed as professors in the US whereas, certainly in the UK advanced research and additional qualifications need to be gained to be titled professor. Other college lecturers are just lecturers.

@EmperorNero

15 күн бұрын

​@@brammeijboom-mj9ld That tracks.

People of European stock really need to stand up for themselves. The fact that this is allowed to continue is appalling.

@nezahuatez

Күн бұрын

@metatron I hope you see that this is the kind of fanbase you are cultivating when you aren't clear.

23:29 Oedipus wasn't the hero of his story either. The story was meant to teach a moral lesson, and Oedipus was not shown favorably.

@123Jim91

6 күн бұрын

But, was his mother good looking? Jk jk

It's hillarious that this guy was constantly talking about African culture, African mythology and African influence on the Greek mythology and then decided to talk about a marvel movie instead of actual African mythologies lol.

@StallionStudios1234

15 күн бұрын

Yeah that makes me mad because I want to learn more about African culture and its getting hijacked. Look at the Woman King. That movie had 0 relevancy in to what actually happened. They were the actual oppressors against other tribes, not their saviors.

@ChadOfAllChads

15 күн бұрын

Mythology and fiction are the same thing. Don't know why that upset you.

@kaimagnus5760

15 күн бұрын

That statement is disrespectful to literally every culture that has ever existed. While it's quite possible some stuff that was known to be fiction at the time has gotten accidentally mixed in most "Mythologies" use to be religions practiced by people who believed they were true.

@ChadOfAllChads

15 күн бұрын

@@kaimagnus5760 My point was, Black Panther is fake, and so is Zeus and Hercules. So if he was just using wakanda as an example people are familiar with what's the big deal? Even metatrons gripe about him calling a shield a hoplite is easily proven to be true with a Google search.

@StaszkoProductions123

15 күн бұрын

@@ChadOfAllChads ​ Black Panther is modern and American not ancient and African, so it doesn't fit the context of what he was talking about at all. And even if it did fit a context of, I don't even know what, maybe showing the audience what is our modern version of mythology? Then the Professor would still have mentioned the African (or specifically Ethiopian and Kushite because Egypt is so obvious it doesn't really require much elaboration in a short video) influcences on Greek mythology and then didn't even bother to mention ONE story or character even remotely related to them, while simultaneously complaining about general population's lack of knowledge about them.

Nothing worse than someone made STUPID by their own education.

@Dracones101

16 күн бұрын

The problem is he is educating others.

@aj.j5833

16 күн бұрын

Over education is known to make mind very ridged.

@culteducube4108

16 күн бұрын

@@Dracones101 I think the correct word is "indoctrinating others"

@jollyjakelovell6822

16 күн бұрын

@@Dracones101 the word you want is indoctrination.

@noxplay4906

16 күн бұрын

@@Dracones101 The correct word is stupefying if I got it right

Not only does the "professor" misinterpret everything through a modernized lens he also fails to realize that a man can be both homosexual AND masculine (even putting aside whether Spartans were or weren't). The terms aren't mutually exclusive. So not only does he fail at his job he also fails at representing the people he tries to pander to.

13:38 Because as a white man I can just walk into any museum, take any european artifact off the wall and play with it because it's from "my culture", and as a white man I just inherently know everything about "my culture" and history so there is no purpose for historians, teachers and the like.

@him050

15 күн бұрын

I do love the idea that ANYTHING “from your culture” automatically belongs to you. Next time I’m in a military museum overseas and see anything British made, I’ll let them know that I’ll “take it off their hands” 😂

@Psycorde

15 күн бұрын

​@@him050*Goes to US Civil War museum, gets shot*

@archi5461

15 күн бұрын

​@@him050Yeah, I guess the same way Jews can take anything from Auschwitz-Birkenau musem, because why care about the history behind things/artifacts secured in museums. Ugh, I hate 'anty-museum' talk.

@cp1cupcake

15 күн бұрын

I just like how there was an attempt to send a bunch of artifacts native to Africa back a few years ago....and the guy who they were sent to just sold them off.

@officerbucktuddrussel394

15 күн бұрын

@@cp1cupcake *laughs* ya. Imagine, someone without collective guilt(white guilt) or history not caring about an artifact outside of how much it's worth. Crazy.🤣🤣

A professor like that is so fucking dangerous, and him teaching to students to learn his beliefs and to put modern politics into ancient history is beyond crazy

@balasaashti3146

16 күн бұрын

Well who became all these professors? The word is hippies and not just any hippies but the ideological marxist hippies.

@MrChickennugget360

16 күн бұрын

exactly what is so scary is he is so full of shit to those who have even a basic understanding of history yet to tons of idiot undergrade teenagers they will lap up his bullshit simply due to him having a PHD. Biggest problem in modern society is trusting "authority" particularly when there are plenty of PHDs that are not worth the paper they are written on.

@DonVigaDeFierro

16 күн бұрын

Academia is a joke. People like him aren't the bufoons, they are the punchline.

@huntsie

16 күн бұрын

@@DonVigaDeFierroagreed, the “professor” is merely a consequence of the degeneracy of the American education system for years now. If any of his students believe his pseudo-historical theories involving comic books and gay Spartans, they are fools themselves.

@Toshiro93

15 күн бұрын

Fortunately, not all of the modern academic panorama is like this: at least, I don't know that there are similar cases in Europe, for the moment (and I hope never!).

“Did you just say male and female? Be careful, you might lose your job as a professor.” 🤣🤣🤣 I love you, Raf. ❤️

The snake on a stick is the symbol of death..... Someone clearly missed the part of Exodus where they lifted up the snake on a stick and anyone who looked at it was healed..... (Might have been in a book later than Exodus, but point stands, that symbol has a direct tie to healing.)

@drawingdragon

7 күн бұрын

That upset me so much (like the rest of the video haha) somehow connecting the HEALING snake to "catonic symbols being lifted from the earth". I guess it's true healing was being derived from a deadly beast, but the symbol used on hospitals is an obvious homage to Moses' burning serpent

@ArcNeoMasato

7 күн бұрын

@@drawingdragon I'd need to look it up, but there's a Greek symbol of a snake that also meant the same thing, it was the icon of one of the gods, so Hebrew or Greek, snakes have non-death meanings. lol

@John_on_the_mountain

19 сағат бұрын

Yeah theres that medical symbol thats got the snakes in it. Called the caduceus

Why.... did he bring up Jan 6 and gay army in the same sentence? These channels are such a joke.

@jabronisauce6833

16 күн бұрын

Because left winger does left wing things they can’t talk about anything without bringing up their moronic and racist ideology.

@robertpatter5509

16 күн бұрын

The Enlightenment was a mistake folks.

@mindlightwave

16 күн бұрын

Because they have a specified Derangement Syndrome

@HoLeeFuk317

16 күн бұрын

Because it's propaganda

@Dylanhya

16 күн бұрын

My best guess is the professor somehow made a connection between the Q-anon shamon and spartans. So he was saying how its strange that conservatives dressed up as a gay army. That's my hypothesis but your guess is as good as mine lol. Maybe some people at the capital on january 6th dressed as spartans or something, but i dont recall anything like that

When Black Panther, _a fictional isolationist society created by two white Jewish men_ , is used as a factual reference for a historical discussion he already lost all credibility. *EDIT:* For the rage-queens insistent on misrepresenting the usage if the term 'white' in my post: ethnic White and skin hue 'white' are entirely separate categories of description. If you cannot tell the difference betwixt the two perhaps it would be better to not create an opinion of attack. Rather familiarize yourself with the difference. I stand on my OP and how I phrased it. Pantone hue not ethnicity was referenced. Language matters.

@klausroxin4437

16 күн бұрын

To be honest, the original video is not a historical discussion, it's a propaganda show. He worked in a very professional way and did the job he was supposed to do: propagandist.

@macattack5863

15 күн бұрын

Sure but he is using his so called academic credentials to back up said propaganda the thing at issue is not just the existence of propaganda but the loss of credibility on academics in general when this behavior is allowed.

@JeffreyOller

15 күн бұрын

@@klausroxin4437 effectiveness and credibility are not to be conflated.

@anomonyous

15 күн бұрын

​@@macattack5863Which is how we got to the state of indoctrination and ideologically motivated historical revisionism, in the first place. The capturing of academia by subversive political/ideological elements, not in the pursuit of knowledge, but in the pursuit of activism and destruction of said academia as it existed in its original form.

@birchthebirch4593

15 күн бұрын

I disagree, I think using modern media is quite a good pathway to teach people about history . Everyone does it . Jordan Peterson using fairy tales and cartoons , metatron does it too . Allegory, metaphor and synonym helps people understand .

As an interesting note, the origin of the figure of heracles on mythology seems to hark all the way back to the proto-indo-european cultures of the central asian steppe, where we see warriors buried with cudgels. They seemed to have had a god of war (often refered to as striker-thunderer) wielding a cudgel and related to thunder who slays beasts; and it's thought it's this early god who later evolved into figures such as Heracles, Thor or Indra.

I was in Vienna last year and saw a keyboard that was once used by Joseph Haydn. I never thought that it would be wrong to show it but that it still had to be used in a concert.

By this mans own principles, he should be resigning from a position teaching classics when he is not Italian or Greek. What a stupid ideology.

@pieseldatches

12 күн бұрын

He can't because there's a high chance he's from a certain group.

@DimitriMoreira

10 күн бұрын

Italian?! Why "Italian" only? The roman empire was enormous and just because for the most part its capital was Rome, not Italy in its entirety but Rome only, the only current nationality accepted as "romans" are Italians? No. You either keep it roman, as in people from the city of Rome, or you respect geography and history and anyone from Portugal to Turkey could be considered "roman" by today's standards.

@dimitrispapavasileiou7025

9 күн бұрын

The fact he is stating is he could be martian for all we care. He will be judged for his knowledge on Roman history if he is preaching this particular subject as a self Proclaiming expert.

@OveToranger

9 күн бұрын

And don't forget he's not African either...so he can't say ANYTHING about African culture or history...that'd be racist

@ericmassoni

9 күн бұрын

@@DimitriMoreira In fact, yes, it is natural to consider the Italians as bearers of the Roman Empire. It's quite simple, you don't consider the Spanish as French because they were part of Napoleon's Empire, or the Chinese as Mongols because they were part of the Mongol Empire, or the Turks as Byzantines because they occupy the territory of Byzantium (Rome). The Roman Empire is a construct on the Italian peninsula that conquered almost all of Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor.

This "professor" is utterly disgusting.

@user-ec3rm9wr1n

16 күн бұрын

The "professor" saw some SHELL'S....

@jstevinik3261

16 күн бұрын

@@user-ec3rm9wr1n What?

@tomekkruk6147

16 күн бұрын

I'm pretty sure he know that half of what he says is utter nonsense, but he says that anyway, because if he said the truth, he would most likely be targeted by some leftie looney gender pseudo science students and could loose his, probably well paid job.

@DemolitionManDemolishes

16 күн бұрын

I wish there were more videos like that, with modern day "professors" showing their true colors. Now, if you are still going to send your kid to this university, it's on you.

@vinnyganzano1930

16 күн бұрын

Why do you think he's employed at NYU?

Oh man I am from a Native American reservation, natives have an entertaining way of telling stories.

"Sometimes people forget half of the mediteranean is africa" he said and then proceeds to forget that at least half of the people living there are still lighter toned than Barrack Obama. If you look at the tuareg (who do live more south close to niger), even though theyre quite dark, their appearance and outfits resemble more arabic people. If we are talking about how greek mythology was influenced by africa you would talk about egypt or the beliefs of amazigh prior to arab conquests

@cernunnos8344

6 күн бұрын

Never mind berbers and non arab middle eastern who can have light skin and blue eyes

Hercules did not get his power from slaying a lion. He was the son of Zeus. He strangled snakes in his crib.

@ItsKindaWeirdBro...

15 күн бұрын

Facts!!!

@aredjayc2858

15 күн бұрын

Shh

@kylemendoza8860

15 күн бұрын

Not a mytho expert. I think he did get some additional powers. I don't even think the lion pelt is the only thing that gave him additional powers.

@aredjayc2858

15 күн бұрын

@@kylemendoza8860 He did gain additional stuff, hydra blood for example. But to claim that killing the lion was the source of his powers is nonsensical

@arturhashmi6281

15 күн бұрын

@@aredjayc2858 Blood of hydra was deadly itself and I do not remember Heracles using it for anything, let me know if Im wrong. Neman lion's golden fur was impervious to attack, it could not be killed with mortals' weapons, but power of Heracles was generaly inherited from his father, who was the mightiest of Gods, in the end Heracles killed the lion without having his pelt, obviously.

that "professor" just misidentified the rod/staff of Aesclepius. that is not a symbol of death, but of healing and medicine.

@wezzuh2482

16 күн бұрын

Imagine being a professor of classics and not recognizing a basic mythological symbol

@yoeyyoey8937

16 күн бұрын

Tbf, metatron also missed this

@carloshenriquezimmer7543

16 күн бұрын

@@yoeyyoey8937 I will give Metatron a pass on this one... at that point his brain may had have to rest and recover for a while.

@robertpatter5509

16 күн бұрын

One could interpret that symbol of alchemy conquering death I suppose. As snakes do represent death as well.

@yoeyyoey8937

16 күн бұрын

@@robertpatter5509 yeah there’s some other stuff in there as well, there’s the idea of resurrection or being reborn, which I guess is conquering death, but all of this is associated with Asclepius and his Caduceus, so they miss the mark when they talk about this without mentioning that

"The Spartans were the greatest gay army..." What, so we're just going to pretend modern America doesn't exist?!

"The greeks separated the world into the masculine sky and feminine earth." Hades: "Am I a joke to you?"

Let’s talk about African culture, history and mythology. Once upon a time, there was a place called Wakanda…

@scorchedearth4248

16 күн бұрын

The Wakanda army, one of the gayest armies ever.

@geoffas

16 күн бұрын

@@scorchedearth4248 The Wankharder peoples were onanists who were renowned for their story-telling abilities which were passed down by word-of-mouth.

@bdleo300

12 күн бұрын

We wuz Wakananaz and shiet

300 should never be used to make a statement about Ancient Greece. It's a Zack Snyder movie based on a comic book written by Frank Miller during the most troubled years of his life. Treating it like a historical movie is like watching Bridgerton to study the Victorian Era.

@bdleo300

12 күн бұрын

Still infinitely more historical than Wanakananda; no idea why this 'professor' even talks about Marvel cr4p.

@Myomer104

7 күн бұрын

And, in-universe, is a propaganda speech being said before a big battle.

@MellonVegan

7 күн бұрын

And didn't Miller base it on Herodotus' account instead of the real history?

@user-jt6rm7xc8v

7 күн бұрын

Yes. But Herodotus's accounts, as erroneous as they are, are still historical.

@barahng

6 күн бұрын

It embellishes a few things like the numbers of the Greeks but for the most part it's actually pretty accurate. Leonidas and Xerxes both existed, the Greeks were heavily outnumbered and led by Leonidas I of Sparta, and they did use the terrain to their advantage to mitigate the numbers advantage Xerxes had. Even the part where Xerxes sends a messenger to Leonidas to tell him to surrender happened, but Leonidas didn't kick him down a well. Instead when the messenger told him that Xerxes demanded the Greeks surrender their weapons, he replied "Come and take them". Wish that had been in the movie instead its way cooler. The biggest inaccuracies were the number of Greek troops and the fact that it wasn't just Spartans which I think can be forgiven under artistic license. Clearly not done for any weird political reasons.

The politicization of "morality" poses a far great threat to our collective survival than any of the importa..*cough* monetizable existential threats that we should all be diligently freaking out about!

From his bio : ''He is Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University, Honorary Professor in Humanities at the University of Nottingham and an affiliated faculty member in Drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He specializes in Greek drama, performance and literature, cognitive theory applied to antiquity and the performance of trauma in antiquity'' He's not a scholar, he's a glorified art critic. That's why academic titles should be exclusive to actual academic disciplines, to avoid the confusion with actual scholars and scientists.

@UtamagUta

3 күн бұрын

also it proves that art criticism is just fancy words pulled out of their @sses. They see a picture of a fly on a fruit bowl and start babbling about existential crysis in artist's life, about the corrupt society, other bs. Artist just wanted something funny on a boring still life. The end.

The professor forgot, if he ever knew, that the movie 300 was based on a comic book. It was never intended to be an accurate depiction of Spartan/Persian culture or of history, but rather a fantasy for plain fun.

@johnv6806

15 күн бұрын

That movie was. But there is another movie of the 300 that wasn't based on a comic I think it was made in the 70s?

@simpsondr12

15 күн бұрын

I mean the comic is based on real life events, it's not made up. That being said idk why he's talking about it when it was said he would discuss mythology.

@SpiritStoneWarrior94-yx3gs

15 күн бұрын

​@@simpsondr12 it's lightly based off real life events, the vast majority of it is extremely made up though.

@giokun100

15 күн бұрын

@@SpiritStoneWarrior94-yx3gs I'd argue the opposite. It's heavily based on real life events with a healthy dose of overexaggeration.

@anomonyous

15 күн бұрын

​​@@johnv6806Which isn't what he's talking about.

Killmonger is not Culturally Wakandan. He is American. He speaks like an American, he has an American accent, and he ACTS like an American.

@dunedainmom

15 күн бұрын

I thought it was really interesting that the American Black Power CRT guy gets shanked in the end by the African. I thought the movie was very thought provoking

@laisphinto6372

15 күн бұрын

Wakanda IS also Just the American Idea of african culture they are also Just Americans with very hammy african accents that Sound forced AS hell

@MastemaJack

15 күн бұрын

Killmonger would only be half wakandan. He sounds like one of those Black Hebrew Israelites to me.

@jshadowhunter

15 күн бұрын

Killmonger was literally a black Hitler.

@HDN141

15 күн бұрын

And, he is not real. So...it is a moo point.

The professor seems to think that sub Saharan Africa was part of the Mediterranean. He should know that North Africa was inhabited by Phoenicians, Greeks and Egyptians, and later by Romans. Carthage for example was Phoenician. Obviously trade and the location in Africa means that there would be other races mixed in… but North Africa was never Wakanda and it is wishful thinking for a sub Saharan origin of all the great things that the Greeks and Romans came up with. If anything the Greeks were influenced by Egypt and the Middle East (Persia, Assyria etc). My ancestry is Northern Europe. I don’t claim Greek Mythology as my own… I love it, but it is not mine. It has influenced western culture over time and therefore I guess it has partly become mine… but I would never claim that my ancestors were the origin of it. Norse Mythology is also quite interesting. I can be proud of that. I don’t necessarily agree that we should be learning more sub Saharan history in school. Why is that more important than other history we also don’t learn, such as Russian, Mongolian, the Huns, the Aztecs, Persia, Japanese, Chinese etc? In Western countries, Greek, Roman and Christian history is the most important to learn as it has had the most influence on our culture. Next would be local history and local mythology… such as Norse… depending on where you live… and then more distant history that had some influence on western civilisation such as Middle Eastern and Egyptian empires.. and than the rest such as the Far east and Sub Saharan. Obviously all history is interesting and we can all choose to learn more than they teach in school as specialisations at University or elsewhere. But there is only so much time in school for history so they can really only cover the basics and provide the option for some electives. Therefore in western countries I would see sub Saharan history and Mythology as an elective in school… not a “should” for all kids. Unfortunately woke ideology fetishises blackness and we have the push to elevate this over everything else.

Next, he will say Daffy Duck and Donald Duck were gay ducks oppressed by the patriarchy. And compare it to the history of duck tape.

He went full-“They Wuz Kangs”. Never go full-“They Wuz Kangs”.

@noxplay4906

16 күн бұрын

Lol I love that meme so much. It pisses off the really politically biased people who love wokeism

@ThursonJames

16 күн бұрын

@@noxplay4906 you missed a meme: “Never go full-retard” is a quote from Tropic Thunder.

@CatsOverdrive

16 күн бұрын

I genuinely cherish the "egyptians v israelites" diss/rap battle. Thank you for showing me that, Metokur.

@yoeyyoey8937

16 күн бұрын

That’s literally what all the white peoples saying this are doing. “We wuz filosofers”

@robertpatter5509

16 күн бұрын

​@@yoeyyoey8937 Why? Because of innate traits. They must embrace the Blank Slate lie. They cannot even think that groups are better than others. That's Heresy. And they do see it as Heresy.

On behalf of England, we do not claim this activist.

@HighlanderNorth1

12 күн бұрын

Unfortunately, a significant percentage of English and UK citizens have embraced this silly cultural "M a r k c y s t" stuff.

@ShadowEnigmaTV

12 күн бұрын

@@HighlanderNorth1 I'm a dying breed then

@silverhawkscape2677

12 күн бұрын

That doesnt mean much unless sadly.

@GholaTleilaxu

12 күн бұрын

You mean Inglanstan.

@GholaTleilaxu

12 күн бұрын

@@ShadowEnigmaTV We keep a few of you in safe places around the flat Earth, just in case. ;)

The MASSIVE disconnect that i am having with this Professors critique is that he isnt looking at how the movie is framed. Its is told by a "shield-dropper" that was told to flee the battle and tell the tale of what happened to the Spartan army. So he over exaggerates what he saw.. Elephants the size of mountains, millions of people, when it was only perhaps 20k, Xerxes is a massive lithe warrior-god, the spartans being impeccable in battle, and slaying thousands per man, as if they were a hot knife through butter.. the traitor is a horribly mutated manbeast.. How can someone who is a professor of mythology not know of unreliable narrators?

The taking of the museum's mask in Wakanda reminds me of the controversies over the true ownership of the Elgin marbles and the rescuing of the artifacts from Iragi museums while they were being destroyed/looted in the early 2000's. They're always fun rabbit holes to fall head-first into.

Did this professor just imply that being masculine and being gay are mutually exclusive?

@Mailed-Knight

13 күн бұрын

From a certain point of view, yes. Though considering his entire lecture comes from a maybe fascist/maybe communist point of view, I'm sure he'd be fine if that was your takeaway. Afterall its 'your truth'.

@lresponsabil

13 күн бұрын

that is true, gay is not manly and otherwise, a filthy opposite

@tomigun5180

13 күн бұрын

Well, if you think the guys in the Blue Oyster are masculine... 😆

@yeettea5656

13 күн бұрын

@@Mailed-Knight awesome. I wonder what the point of going to his lectures would be then.

@tpockett3676

13 күн бұрын

​@@basilmagnanimous7011 Depends on your uh... taste ;)

Anybody who uses Marvel films as a reference for academic discussion isn't to be taken seriously.

@milansvancara

15 күн бұрын

exactly, anyone who treats fiction as facts should be ridiculed... (spiderman, dragons, minotaurs, magic, astrology, ressurections, religions...)

@gimligloinson972

15 күн бұрын

@@milansvancaraso u don’t like metatron either then?

@ChadOfAllChads

15 күн бұрын

But Mythology as a reference for academic discussion works? They both involve things that either cannot happen, or are so fanciful they most likely didn't happen. You guys are soft.

@milansvancara

15 күн бұрын

@@gimligloinson972 I do like many of his videos, even this video of his is factual, and I won't hate someone just for having some ridiculous stances on something (my previous comment was hyperbolic half-sarcasm to demonstrate the point) I just don't like the hypocrisy many people don't see here, that's all :)

@jimmyfrench4722

15 күн бұрын

I completely disagree based on the premise of the talk, basically, the portrayal of mythology in modern filmography. Thus, any film that goes into mythology would be on the table. I don’t get why he’d pick Black Panther unless you’re comparing modern concepts of invented ancient mythology to mythologies of the surrounding areas to the setting.keeping Mediterranean, I believe, haven’t seen, that Love & Thunder portrayed the Greek pantheon, even if shortly, but still something. Why didn’t he comment more on the portrayal of Bast & likelihood of her bestowing such favors on a man…there was an opportunity to speak to the topic, but he ignored it for non-topic bs. Hope his students see this & question why he expects them to stay on topic in their submissions.

"They were quite different from us. You see, they believed that Africans were human beings with art, culture, and literature." Uhh...ok dude.

@kongspeaks4778

6 күн бұрын

Yeah I mean most western countries are still racist trash heaps

This guy is a prime example of what is wrong with our universities these days.

"Apart from the Greek Problem" Sounds like something a Roman would say 😂

@Azrael1st

16 күн бұрын

Ahh those Romans, always whining and complaining like it’s 500BC worse than the British honestly. Thats coming from a Persian.

@StalkerQtya

16 күн бұрын

@@Azrael1st And eventually forming the worlds most influential empire, kicking your ass and establishing a legacy, that we still larp as them.

@HappyBeezerStudios

16 күн бұрын

As barbarian I can only say romanes eunt domus

@StalkerQtya

16 күн бұрын

@@HappyBeezerStudios People called Romanes they go the house?

@xshorty117x

16 күн бұрын

Or a sabattean

This “professor” keeps talking about 300 like it’s a historical documentary while completely missing the fact it’s told from the embellished perspective of a commander trying to inspire his troops.

@sciencecompliance235

16 күн бұрын

Yeah, it's Spartan propaganda; why wouldn't it be xenophobic?

@Knightwingofbludhaven

16 күн бұрын

Exactly.

@marshalmarshall2109

16 күн бұрын

it's also a comic book adaptation

@Tanzenergise

16 күн бұрын

the movie was based off a comic book by the same name which was INSPIRED by the sparto-persian war. its supposed to be exaggerated and unrealistic

@TransRoofKorean

16 күн бұрын

@@sciencecompliance235 and that's why I consider it to be about as historically accurate as a movie could possibly be

I am an East Indian male, living in NYC. The one professor that taught me so much about Indian history was a Jewish woman, in a Jesuit university..... the idea that knowledge belongs to people based on their skin color makes me think humanity has sunk to such a new low. Its almost as bad as ISIS destroying Persian archealogical sites....

Definitely interested in a part 2.

The professor calling the depiction of the literal INVADERS as monsters from the POV OF THE INVADED "racist" really was the last straw for me. Does he not see that this "rule" fails as soon as it is applied to a culture he "favours"?

@oblivionsa7973

15 күн бұрын

That doesn't count. Anything they support is good and anything they don't like is bad. No proof needed because he *feels* it's true. They will literally hold a different stance on the exact same thing based only on who is saying or doing it. He is a dangerous lunatic who teaches his hatred and racism to impressionable young adults every day. If you want to know why things are as bad as they are, it's because of people like him.

@80krauser

15 күн бұрын

The contradiction is not a bug, its a feature. Use any and everything as long as it suits you and then discard when it does not.

@normiedeathsquad40

15 күн бұрын

Reminds me of that LOTR meme where at the siege of minas tirith gandalf standing with theodan on the walls says looking out at the Park sea says. Well dont be racist, let them in.

@QualityPen

14 күн бұрын

@@80krauserYes, 1984 has some things to say about “double think.”

@EnSayne987

10 күн бұрын

It's almost like people tend to look very unfavorably about people that are trying to kill and enslave them and the ones they love. The Germans in WWII may have been the genocidal bad guys but come on now people, we can do better than calling them Krauts. That's just rude

As an Englishman, I'm embarrassed to hear that this man is English, and I'm also dismayed by the state of the American education system where this man has found a home. He makes both of our countries look ridiculous.

@Angus-McFife-2nd

16 күн бұрын

He was most likely thrown out of English education.

@DavidM_10

16 күн бұрын

​@@Angus-McFife-2nd I'd like to think so.

@adventussaxonum448

15 күн бұрын

​@@Angus-McFife-2nd The way things are at present, I wouldn't bet on it.

@Angus-McFife-2nd

15 күн бұрын

@@adventussaxonum448 Good point. We have been infected by Americans "leftism". My son is 9. Last year he brought home a school book on gender. The opening page read "These 2 women were assigned male at birth by a doctor". His mother and I have kept all conversations on that subject away from him because he is a child. We never mention anything around that at all to preserve his innocence as long as possible. We then are called into the school because he told his teacher "they are not women, they are men with broken brains". Qué the next 20 mins of us trying to work out where he has heard it before...

If many of the artifacts in museums weren’t there they would have been lost to time. Especially in places that have been ravaged by war and civil wars for millennia. I’d rather something be in a museum than to not exist at all anymore.

Just subbed !!!! How did I not find you sooner!! I am not as educated on this subject as much as you ….but I know enough to question this man….did some due diligence…you NAILED it ….thanks for the content…you have a new follower….all the best to you and yours

The comments on that video make me lose faith in humanity. People are eating his bullish up.

@metatronyt

16 күн бұрын

That's why we make a stand, no matter the consequences. They can demonetize me 10 times I'll still do it.

@sauron69447

16 күн бұрын

​@@metatronyt when I watched that video I knew this guy was lying through his teeth

@brick6347

16 күн бұрын

It's not humanity, it's the professor. Those people don't know much about the subject, but they've clicked on the video and are willing to learn. To their mind he's a professor, why shouldn't they trust him? It's not their fault they're being told nonsense.

@Kededian

16 күн бұрын

​@@sauron69447scientists shouldnt meddle in politics. This so called professor is a prime example.

@DebasedAnon

16 күн бұрын

​@@brick6347 You shouldnt trust someone because "they're a professor", you can give their opinion more weight based on that fact but to outright go "i guess hes right" because hes a professor either means you're a mindless zombie or you're just looking to confirm your biases. So while i agree that the professor is a problem so are the people who listen to him. Science is interrogating every idea constantly, the phrase "settled science" should activate every alarm you have. Likewise for non hard science fields like History, if someone presents something to you as an undeniable fact you should have the same alarm bells ringing.

Notice that he is not a professor of mythology. He is a professor of "classics *in the modern world*". That's probably a literature degree or something akin to that. In other words, he has no idea what he is talking about and is like one of those dumb high school professors that over interpret everything in the way that suits them.

@yoeyyoey8937

16 күн бұрын

Good point I didn’t notice that

@DonVigaDeFierro

16 күн бұрын

He's not a historian, or an anthropologist, or a sociologist, or an archaeologist or even a linguist... He's a glorified English teacher.

@akl2k7

15 күн бұрын

Ah, the type to search for the meaning behind blue curtains.

@GeneralToxicus

15 күн бұрын

I looked him up, he does have a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Nottingham. On his CV and the NYU faculty page: "PhD in Classics, The University of Nottingham (Thesis, Opsis: The Visuality of Greek Drama. Supervisor, Alan Sommerstein)"

We need part 2 meta i already watched this video 3 times! One of your bests.

2:38 thank you.. thank you. THANK YOU! THAAANK YOUUUU ❤ After so many years, finally someone said it. I think I have gone on record saying this on multiple locations including KZread channels. Hoplon means weapon, hoopla (hopla) plural for weapons, hoplite is pretty much man at arms. Aspis mostly for shield (shield bearers were Ipaspistis, meaning, under a shield). The shield was definitely also referred to as hoplo (hoplon) as in just referring to it as a weapon. You are the FIRST to acknowledge this. I already loved your content mate, now I love it and you thrice more.

I refuse to believe he's not an actor pretending to be a University professor and improvising the whole thing

@JackTorrance333

16 күн бұрын

No doubt

@Nurhaal

16 күн бұрын

That's actually the credentials required to be a professor these days

@Autobotmatt428

16 күн бұрын

Sadly he is.

@marksanders573

16 күн бұрын

By the end of the video, that was absolutely where my mind was at.

@88michaelandersen

16 күн бұрын

I am a professor and I have lots of colleagues just like him.

What the heck is a “professor of classics in the modern world”? Rule number one when it comes to history is that it’s NOT the modern world. God, I’m so tired of all this misinformation being spread about antiquity online.

@iota-09

16 күн бұрын

from what i'm reading he's... a professor of teathre plays witha penchant for greek mythology and social studies? if you copypaste his title in google, his resume is the only thing showing up... "Peter Meineck holds the endowed chair of Associate Professor of Classics in the Modern World at New York University. He specializes in ancient performance, cognitive theory, Greek literature and culture and humanities public programming. Professor Meineck received his PhD in Classics from the University of Nottingham and his BA (hons) in Ancient World Studies from University College London. In addition to his academic career he has worked extensively in the professional theatre in New York and London, founding Aquila Theatre in 1991. His national public programs have earned a Chairman’s Special Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Hayden, Onassis and Mid Atlantic Arts foundations, among others. These programs include Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives, The Warrior Chorus and Shakespeare Leaders in Harlem. He has also directed, and or produced over 50 productions of classical plays at venues as diverse as Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, The Ancient Stadium at Delphi and the Bush and Obama White House. His productions of classical drama have toured extensively throughout North America and Europe."

@joak9992

16 күн бұрын

Here's a translation; "professor of turning historical classics into modern propaganda". Far as I can tell, his job is to find some way to use historical classics to push modern politics.

@Benevolent_Fafnir

16 күн бұрын

@@joak9992 it’s absolutely terrifying that this is a real thing.

@PortilloMoment

16 күн бұрын

@@joak9992 So he's really a Professor of Presentism. Interesting. And ridiculous.

@gammle-vikingr

16 күн бұрын

Major red flag there. I’m surprised Metatron missed it.

Your demonstration is so brilliant and educated ! You get to the point , I love your work and this video is a masterpiece . Thank you for that , keep doing the good job 🙏

This dude hasn't spoken about mythology.... The university system has to be taken back. They teach the message first and their subject later.

The hilarity of him continually praising the historicity of Black Panther whilst criticizing 300 😂 so blatantly political

@mr.s2005

13 күн бұрын

agree, they are both comic books not meant to be taken seriously as historic novels.....even though 300 is actually based on a real event and as a few historically accurate points, a isolated country that somehow is able to be economically/militarily strong despite having backwards traditions of deciding leadership like Wakanda is not even remotely possible.

@ravezon

7 күн бұрын

Worst still that the 300 battle were real and a recorded history while wakanda is not even a thing. 😂😂😂

@John_on_the_mountain

19 сағат бұрын

@@ravezonright? Wakanda is pure comic book fiction. Its like praising the historic accuracy of Gotham City or Bikini Bottom

@oz_jones

15 сағат бұрын

@@ravezon Best part about the 300 film and I assume the comic is that it's clearly propaganda. But Wakanda forever or whatever.

@ravezon

15 сағат бұрын

@@oz_jones it was something along the line about how 300 spartans alone hold the line at the choke hold long enough to unite greece againts persian invasion into greece or something along that line, while the real history was still 300 spartan but plus a few thousands more other state soldiers holding the line. Wakanda is nowhere to be seen. 🤣🤣🤣

"Welcome to this job interview for a professor on mythology, what are your qualifications?" "Racism, white supremacy, LGBTP, sexism, Africa is the center of all history." "Congratulations , you're hired!"

@sihilius

15 күн бұрын

*fired!

@jackmcglion8337

15 күн бұрын

Nope. That not true. You made that up.

@hillarygrieves3151

14 күн бұрын

Unfortunately I think this is how these interviews go at most Universities.

@obi-ron

14 күн бұрын

So sad that this "Professor " professes only politically motivated disinformation. Maybe he has been given his head because faculty heads thought the students would pay attention because of his accent.

@wwiiinplastic4712

14 күн бұрын

@@jackmcglion8337 Well, at Harvard you can plagiarize the work of others and present papers with no actual data and become the President of the school.

Your channel is fantastic metatron! Keep going

As an African myself, there is A LOT I could say about this "professor" and debunk him. However, considering the amount of balderdash and lies, I don't think it's worth it. Let's just laugh at this revisionism and ignorance 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@felipepicolo

15 күн бұрын

És Angolano ou Moçambicano? (Talvez Cabo verdiano?)

@camilofonseca2073

15 күн бұрын

@@felipepicolo angolano

@felipepicolo

15 күн бұрын

@@camilofonseca2073 Imaginei que fosse, devido ao nome. Um abraço daqui do estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, desde que KZreadrs como o Baptista Miranda vieram pra cá o interesse que os Brasileiros (ao menos os da internet) têm pelo vosso país aumentou e a Internet diminuiu a distância entre nós e os outros países lusófonos consideravelmente. Muito legal saber que temos muito mais em comum do que o idioma (e a ancestralidade de boa parte dos brasileiros).

@camilofonseca2073

15 күн бұрын

@@felipepicolo opa. Abraço irmão. Edit: com relação ao meu nome já é uma outra e longa história.

@le13579

15 күн бұрын

Thanks for speaking up about this.

He just gave it away right from the git-go: “ Professor of Classics in the MODERN WORLD. “ you know right from there is that his studies will be skewed towards a modern agenda.

@Tallorian

16 күн бұрын

Exactly my thought, I'm surprised Metatron did not notice that red flag.

@JRRodriguez-nu7po

16 күн бұрын

Metatron didn't notice because he's not yet met the modern world. As a man who told his parents to go get him a wife, who married me because her father said to, 40 years ago and both very happy...neither has anyone in my family or me. We like the 1600s, minus slavery...well, marriage as slavery is good. Oh, my oldest daughter also asked me to find her a husband. She married 21 days after being introduced. Because in the 1600s divorce is rare and the 2 sexes actually LIKED each other.

@Blox117

16 күн бұрын

git? github? do you english?

You soundly handled this mess. Thank you very much. Yes, I would like to see you debunk part 2.

Love your content brother Edit: part two!!!

The 'prof' ticked all the DIE boxs. Students are paying 60k pa and being taught BS.

There's something inherently dangerous about a professor that's so willing to misrepresent information to sculp a narrative.

@bradleythebuilder8743

12 күн бұрын

Sculpt

@rtoujr

12 күн бұрын

@@bradleythebuilder8743 no worries.

@mnomadvfx

11 күн бұрын

I don't know about sculpting narratives. I think he was just looking for a payday, It's Vanity Fair so presumably they paid him well for this cack and probably edited his script.

@SergioLeonardoCornejo

11 күн бұрын

Yes. Misinformation. His behavior will make anyone who listens to his lies a lot less educated than they were. Fortunately Metatron is fixing the problem.

@rtoujr

11 күн бұрын

@@mnomadvfx even worse. sold out to say anything for a price.

Just love your channel!! Thank you for CORRECTING the lies of people who are supposed to teach history. This guy is a propagandist, not a “professor”!

I never really understood the Black Panther museum scene. I have a massive respect for museums, regardless of where they are, since they actively preserve history which is something I wish to do as well. So someone insulting the modern day historians who had nothing to do with the (assumed) theft of artifacts, and are only working to preserve the history and culture that's hundreds, if not thousands of years old just feels... Yikes.

@thelastknight8794

16 күн бұрын

I absolutely agree!

@housewilma4904

16 күн бұрын

and that whole idea that artificats were "stolen" is bullshitte. people got permission from local authoriers paying them WHAT THEY ASKED FOR in order to get the rights to dig and keep artifcacts. ironically the truly stolen artifacts in muesem are from LOCALS who stol there on history for some easy cash during the archealogical boom.

@Terter1551

16 күн бұрын

@@housewilma4904 Wow! Have you ever been to the British museum?

@MW_Asura

16 күн бұрын

That part was a cringefest

@CrispyCircuits

16 күн бұрын

I will point out a simple fact. I do not have the money to travel to each and every part of Europe and Africa and Australia and Canada and South America and ... If there were not any displays of artifacts from other places on Earth, then we would all be prevented from ever being exposed to anything more than pictures and videos. That would be very ...-ist. I don't know what kind of (insert stem here)ist it is, but an extremely nasty and selfish one. IMHO.

My God. It looks like this professor literally learnt about Medusa from this movie. In this movie Medusa is cast as an attractive woman, so his points seem valid from his perspective using the film as a source. In Greek mythology, which he is attributing these features of beauty and rite of passage for a man, he could not be more off. Medusa is depicted as a woman with living snakes in place of hair; her appearance was so HIDEOUS that anyone who looked upon her was turned to stone. It is NOT a sex thing. Between his hypocrisy, his lack of knowledge, alack of understanding of the source material, and his projection of current ideals to people thousands of years ago, this guy is an absolute joke. Does he not understand that Clash of the Titans and 300 are not documentaries!?! I'm almost convinced he believes Wakanda is real. Holy shit.

@rattusrattus761

15 күн бұрын

Academics like this always seem to "research" just far enough to where the have what they want to validate their own bias, then stop short of what might challenge it.

@GeneralToxicus

15 күн бұрын

There are some modern feminist and some psychoanalytical interpretations by Freud and others where the story of Medusa is likened to have something to do with sexuality, castration etc. It's possible the "professor" got his interpretations from that. Either way, it's a mistake because those are modern interpretations. He should've instead referenced what the actual Greeks wrote and thought about the Medusa mythology. Contemporary interpretations are irrelevant.

@cursedcancersurvivor

15 күн бұрын

I'm surprised he didn't go with the current feminist retelling of "Medusa was the victim and Perseus was a toxic man!"

@ChaoticYak1

15 күн бұрын

@@GeneralToxicus Even my brother who is a psychologist thinks that Freud's conclusions should be avoided. I didn't realize anyone was still using him as a source.

@toodlescae

13 күн бұрын

He should have watched the Clash Of The Titans version starring Harry Hamlin instead of the remake. Medusa was most certainly *not* beautiful in that version. 😂

The sexuality and drug use of the Ancients would blow people's minds today. 😄🤯

The joke is expecting a college professor to not be political.

This NYU professor is not only a shield dropper but and ankle grabber, IMHO. Strange that the part of Africa that borders Mediterranean is more closely tied to the part of Europe that also shares that inland sea up to and including the DNA of all of its people North, South, East and West than it is to Africa of the sub-Saharan regions.

@Gobear1

16 күн бұрын

Hating on gay people is not cool. You can can refute this professor's nonsense with out dipping down into anti-gay bigotry.

@m0-m0597

16 күн бұрын

@@Gobear1 waaaaaaa waaaaa 👶

@lawrenceragnarok1186

16 күн бұрын

​@@Gobear1 wow that's a cringe take lol

@Gobear1

16 күн бұрын

@@lawrenceragnarok1186 So is calling a guy an ankle-grabber.

@IndoAryanKang

16 күн бұрын

Egyptians and berbers are mostly west asian related, MENAs deserve their own category

"This white woman is explaining the culture to someone who actually is of this culture" No, she isn't. Killmonger's father was Wakandan and was raised in the country, but Killmonger himself was born and raised in America.

@kimmiewise1044

14 күн бұрын

On top of the fact that he is ignorant of the fact that Africans were equally capable of trade with Europeans so the artifact wasn't even stolen but traded for, likely for muskets, Sugar or rum. It's actually even MORE offensive that he believes that the African tribe that the English originally found the artifact in was so weak and stupid and helpless that the just let these white people likely already barely surviving Malaria just take their shit and leave. It's like saying that the Pilgrims STOLE corn from native Americans and every white person not must upchuck any corn based nutrition they have ever consumed because pilgrims stole corn. When we all know that Pilgrims and Natives TRADED GOODS AND SERVICES LIKE CIVILIZED PEOPLE.

@PLF...

14 күн бұрын

He obviously hasn't seen it.

@oblitusunum6979

14 күн бұрын

Funny how the guy accuses whites of stealing black culture and selling it right before he shows her saying that the items aren't and him threatening her and stealing the stuff

@enraikow6109

13 күн бұрын

oh no no no, you see, he learned it by readinggg... from a book see... ... that was written by... white people.... huh.

@beebobox

13 күн бұрын

He has seen the skin color, thats all he needs to see, in his opinion.

The snake around the staff is in reference to Moses, he was command to create a brass snake and put it on a staff, and whoever looked upon the snake would be healed

@AMcG-hf6yx

7 күн бұрын

No it's not. It's the rod of Asclepius.. the god of healing and medicine. Snakes being a symbol of renewal and regeneration. His name is mentioned in the original Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians.

I’m waiting for a millennial to write a 10 page or even 30 page old fashioned book on the sensual urges or some legend. The pages are thin and the binding is just leather with animal skin. By hand. That’s genius.

The unfortunate truth is that this "professor" is a valid representation of everything wrong in our education system. His blatant and bigoted contempt for anything European and/or manly does not stand alone.

Someone please tell the "professor" that Wakanda isn't a real place.

@klausroxin4437

16 күн бұрын

And that it was invented by two white americans.

@jonthorson3997

10 күн бұрын

@@klausroxin4437* two Jews