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Why would Atlantis appeal to racists

• ZeroGravitas 4y ago
  > The Atlantis myth, in its many forms, has long been associated with racism. Many writers on the subject—including Hancock back in the 1990s—spoke of the “white” skin of the Atlanteans, who were a kind of master race tutoring benighted brown people in the divine art of piling rocks. The Nazis made use of lost civilization fantasies to support their hunt for a vanished Aryan homeland. Andrew Jackson even used a lost prehistoric civilization claim to justify the Indian Removal Act, which ended in the Trail of Tears. But in recent years, Hancock replaced his white Atlanteans with Indigenous ones and has been a vocal proponent of Native rights. That’s not to say Hancock doesn’t have some nasty classist and colonialist ideas. “Think about it: Could those farmers, who archaeologists tell us never built anything bigger than a shack, really have achieved all this?” he asks at a Maltese temple. Elsewhere, he complains hunter-gatherers lacked “ambition”—the “takers” of the Atlantean world. https://newrepublic.com/article/169282/right-wing-graham-hancock-netflix-atlantis https://newrepublic.com/article/169282/right-wing-graham-han...
  • cma 4y ago
    Was the Nazi "Atlantropa" plan (draining the mediterranean) connected with that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa