Deconstructing Racism and Sexism in the Envisagement of Western Civilization

Dr. Roy Casagranda is a political science professor in Austin, Texas. If you like this analysis and want more, check out Red Peace Machine weekly news podcast • Red Peace Machine

[@ymac7245]

It pains me to see so many empty seats in front of him. This walking encyclopedia/funny guy deserves full lecture halls where students fight for a seat and the back is packed with students who didn't show up an hour before lecture to capture a seat, and now have to stand through a 2 hour lecture, but they don't mind, because his captivating lecture makes those 2 hours feel like they were too short

[@LobotimirMerkanski]

you are kidding right? those are empty by design. it's to have him filmed not his students. one of the reasons being they might not be on board with being filmed. so they are pushed rows to the back and out of the frame.

[@ymac7245]

@@LobotimirMerkanski he has other video's with different camera angles, and the audience is really disappointing. A couple dozen at the most. At least he gets a good audience on youtube

[@vijayrikhye7723]

@@LobotimirMerkanskiI’m not sure if thats the case

[@sabinajankovicova1284]

I always lived history but this guy really makes IT totally attractive

[@cedric7122]

The society is slipping.

[@filiplazz]

Your stuff is amazing dude! Why not take it to the next level, and just start recording a semester of in-depth lecures? I wanna go to your class!

[@olampes]

Yeah me too

[@Pilts82]

Agreed

[@maamounelsharkawy3924]

plus one!

[@shanechristensen5986]

Me too!

[@helveticaneptune537]

The most underrated lecturer

[@kurtaikido2889]

“They are just historians why would they get anything right… They’re just reading the literature..” genius!

[@kurtaikido2889]

“Unholy German Confederacy…” , “we’re all equally worthless…” the gems keep falling!

[@shahidsabir1692]

Another amazing lecture by an amazing lecturer. You have taught me so much. Thank you.

[@Mastery...]

You're a brilliant academic. Well done! I am a keen historian and you are opening rabbit holes for me to go down. Really interesting and educational. Your students are very lucky to have you. Thanks Adeel. Manchester,UK.

[@s80key]

Better than the history channel .Keep it up .

[@sheryn61]

History channel is so biased.

[@MuhammadShahAlamSaqibi]

@@sheryn61 agreed

[@Peacecraft117]

History channel be like “we can’t simply give any glory or credit those damn middle easterners” “let’s just say it was the aliens lol”

[@timthompson2358]

This lecture is a breath of fresh air. When you mention in an aside about how the US school system getting people to make assertions about things they're generally uninformed about it blew my mind.

[@katyana92]

I love these lectures from France🇫🇷 Roy is in a ultimate level ❤

[@MROrie-pc7ur]

The only one that can keep me focused for hours listening to history. I have become addicted to your videos. Please keep making videos professor! Mad respect

[@Hashirama_Sinju]

Same with me man. I watched already more than 10 lectures. His destruction of subjects is amusing and amazing.

[@adanaladdin2807]

This should have 100,000 views if not a million

[@benlawless9539]

I am so addicted to your lectures! I listen to them at work all the time!!!!

[@biscuit4259]

He’s a little too self effacing. Don’t have your kids adopted!

[@sabeelibrahim4415]

Please also focus on your work occasionally

[@dannyferguson9415]

Thanks Roy and The Austin School May you live long and prosper

[@HypermarketCommodity]

This might be the only video with him where the comments are active...

[@Hashirama_Sinju]

2 hours long video...no problem I watch, if I don't finish it guess what I will watch later. Such pleasure listening to Dr Casagranda.

[@carlkaufman2429]

I stumbled on one of his lectures at the Austin School. I'm a regular listener and big fan of both. For all its fault, thank goodness for the internet and KZbin.

[@soniksonik3861]

It shows most people don't want the truth that is the seat is empty. As they say truth hurts. Lies makes them feel warm and fuzzy feeling inside. This video will stay when we are long gone Views will be much much more

[@AhmadAbba]

"This is brought to you by the department of redundancy department ". I almost fell off the chair🤣🤣🤣

[@jioxkabs9315]

God Bless you Dr Roy!

[@inconvenient-truth99]

He is a great teacher!

[@chihiro9054]

Always delighted to share your buried history to power lectures!

[@mohamedyaseenhoosain7649]

Bro I love your diction and humor keep it real!

[@OmarBarends]

I love Roy Casagranda . I love those whom he loves and those who love him . I pray that ALLAH declares HIS love for him , ameen .

[@mansurbaloch6622]

5 years later I am present in this class

[@acommon1]

Well done 👍🏾 Lecture well worth listening to.

[@kaydrov2784]

I need this lectures on Spotify

[@nazirmudasser1672]

love that like every lecture of yours 🤩

[@grahammedland4264]

A real academic, what an amazing oracle of knowledge, if the world could unite and built a new "Library of Alexandra" he should run it.

[@marinaisananrada3236]

I love this guy! So good!

[@hasankhan8501]

Can we measure how much the good professor walks during each talk?

[@BestHKisDLM]

It’s amazing how passionate this guy is and how interesting and captivating his speech can be. Having said that it’s astonishing how many things he got wrong.

[@mellownuance]

Mad respect 🫡 ✊

[@filiplazz]

Im down with a 32 h lecture (series? ) On modernity :). Do it. Doooo iiiit!

[@fandibataineh4586]

you are the absolute best!

[@kunaiflex491]

Brilliant lecture 👏 👌

[@bekindandmerciful5145]

why are your lecture theatres not full! what a great thinker

[@maysashanell8430]

I would give anything to see this guy talk in person

[@strawberrytomato1305]

He is the best historian Ever listen on KZbin

[@sheryn61]

I wish he was my professor in college.

[@jonnyv2408]

He makes many amazing layered jokes and no one ever laughs like wtf

[@HoroRH]

The word “history” is from the French word “histoire”, which is translated as “story” in English.

[@enkidugilgamesh]

Odovacar was not a German. He was the son of a Hunnic General Edeko and a woman of a Germanic tribe.

[@Incandescence555]

'If England can do it, anyone can do it' - such a burn!

[@brianp1230]

He’s great. I always learn so much. I’m guessing he may feel threatening to those who want to ban books on sexual minorities and race in schools and colleges.

[@funfff]

In a parallel universe the Dude is an accomplished academic.

[@anasshatproduction2548]

Keep the vids coming please !

[@neirinski]

I love The Dude’s lectures…

[@DC-ed7ty]

Thanks!

[@ProcintUS]

Prof. Casagranda-- Re: The dark ages, any thoughts on the Younger Dryas impact theory and subsequently suspected extra-terrestrial impacts that align with major shifts in civilization? Namely relevant is that the dark ages align perfectly with a 600 meter meteor impact that created the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia estimated around AD 450-500. The theory is that the massive shower of material and water literally made the dark ages dark with clouds and rain. The fire in the sky and creeping return of a mini-ice age has significant parallels to pagan beliefs that surpassed the church in popularity at that time. Interested to hear your thoughts.

[@deepstrasz]

Lovely talk. A bit confusing since the first 50 minutes or so are stuff from previous lectures that don't do that much service to the title. Other than that, I think ancient civilizations in general were not wholly that exaggeratedly good. One should be careful not to fall into cherry picking.

[@mrboss8322]

I love how he calls palestine palestine and not the israeli oppressors and settlers

[@cv4809]

I love how he uses the roman name for the province instead of the actual name its people used at the time: Iudea

[@belen3732]

What made Cleopatra such a known part of history as opposed to the other women that were left out.

[@xGAMER_chimpX]

Honest man 👏

[@ganome9655]

Is the Herodotus he mentions around 1:01:00 the Herodotus of Halicarnassus that wrote "The Histories"?

[@ganome9655]

Question answered at 1:15:30

[@DarkKitarist]

I'll be honest... This lecture actually shocked me, our education system (where I live, not US) is quite good, but they got all of this wrong...

[@bizikimiz6003]

At least Aristotle did not blame women for giving a girl instead of a boy, by mistake he figured out that the man's biology is the decisive factor.

[@evitaaslanidou6150]

Actually the Turks kept calling the Greeks "Romios" up until they left. You still hear it in Greece. It has a deep connotation of true greek identity!

[@aristeidislykas7163]

Minute 43:00 Can someone give me the name of that John something ?

[@evitaaslanidou6150]

Would you like to know how and why "Istanbul" actually means the same thing as "Constantinople"? It was not renamed at all EVER

[@NFZ138]

I see why Ayn Rand despises Aristotle!

[@donalddesrosiers761]

Need a lecture on the karmatians

[@rosesandsongs21]

Extremely interesting lecture, thank you. I read somewhere that since Ancient Greece the civilisations that came the closest to true democracy were the North American Natives, I wonder how they were with regard to sexism.

[@MerrilyMerrilyMerrily]

Thank you for this, I feel better about feeling shitty about the society I must endure & my lowly place in it. I’m too old now to be wondering where my army is, but I understand angry, strong women are the worst!

[@AbdulHadi-dd9xx]

I wish, I was your student or have a chance to sit there 😢

[@ruffnerd]

watching this after the boat crashed into the baltimore bridge

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

My friend attended a Swedish college that was prejudiced. The preschool program was run by a woman who was authoritarian and aggressive towards her, making her feel unsupported and helpless. She attempted to ruin her future by making her take a difficult test on the teaching profession and threatening to expel her if she failed. During her internship, the woman set her up with a bad and prejudiced manager, refusing to hear her complaints and taking the manager's side. This treatment of students is inhumane and goes against the fundamental goal of education, which is to support personal development and potential realization. Universities must address this problem and foster an environment that is welcoming to all students.

[@pjotarendewolf2195]

Was India not older, like the Védas, and bhagavat Gita and stuff, I always learn India is first civilization after Atlantis

[@incognito96]

Seems like i have a lot to catch up.

[@ElektrodriveUK]

Abu Hamid Al ghazzali a philosopher of interest

[@Wisdomseeker1028]

Great lecture! Love your lectures. But this lecture showed me how much of a liberal, or left swinging you are. For instance, i dont agree with your opinion that those accused of sexual assault should be fired from schools at 1:51:48. I believe in innocent until proven guilty. Why should they be fired if not convicted. Alot of women lie about rape accusations

[@therobust]

18:45 he swung too late. Didn't need that senator. Funny as hell 🤣

[@paulstephen3257]

Is there any source that says the egyptians circumnavigated africa.

[@nobaso620]

Yeah I'd love to see that

[@ebobo628]

@@nobaso620 At some point between 610 and before 594 BC, Necho reputedly commissioned an expedition of Phoenicians, who it is said in three years sailed from the Red Sea around Africa back to the mouth of the Nile; and would thereby be the first completion of the Cape Route. Herodotus, The Histories, Book IV: chapter 42

[@arlieferguson3990]

Just to play devil's advocate, if the course is on western civ. isn't it appropriate to spend more time on Greece and Rome than on non-western civilizations? I think his argument would be more appropriate for a world history survey.

[@biscuit4259]

How have you watched this and still generated this question?

[@E88twenty2]

@@biscuit4259 probably didn't watch it

[@Pilts82]

You've proved you haven't even listened to 15 min of this topic

[@arlieferguson3990]

OK let me try asking this question another way. Suppose that you had a course on the history of Spain. Would it really be appropriate to discuss only its cultural sources and antecedents, but not Spain itself? What if you were teaching a history of France but spent very little time talking about France? If you have a course on Western civ shouldn’t you discuss Greece and Rome?

[@Pilts82]

@@arlieferguson3990 of course we should, the problem is we focus heavily on Greece and Rome and discount civilizations that set them up, almost as if those are the superior nations self-achived and autonomous and thier success somehow came out of a vacuum by itself. We unfortunately have a superiority complex and discount the other non-European empires and civilizations that had a pivotal role and impact in the progess of the world

[@christopherdaumec738]

"Damnatio Memoriae"

[@hllndsn1]

If rhe the Muslims thought of themeselves as Roman, as the Byzantines did, then didnt the Roman Empire fall in 1919?

[@talibmehmed]

Hieronymus Wolf was the name of the historian !

[@iman7j887]

Our professor want the gladiatorial fights back but he wants just to be a referee 😂😂😂 I'm dead

[@eliah_B]

Why not online classes - degree?

[@sherazAsghar]

I will be for gladiator fight for politicians in sighting for war .. they should be the first line of offense

[@mehdfaisal8813]

wait, wasn't commodus assassinated in the shower or something?

[@SohrabNoor]

Can someone explain why the politicians are now increasing taxes whilst fining us all the time? 😂😂😂

[@MauriceMuhumuza]

This guy is my new alcoholic substance

[@NFZ138]

May 29 1453 AD

[@dartanya2]

IS HE single? I love him!

[@farukhshaikh8575]

What Status of women in Greek in 600ad What status and right my prophet giva to women in Islam I thank to allah

[@kultnoir]

Yeah and how we Muslims today don’t care at all and are amongst the most misogynistic men worldwide.

[@ouascyphcyad3000]

40:50 - 41:20 😂 hilarious!

[@BAFREMAUXSOORMALLY]

The earth is a FLAT sphere?

[@shahidachoudhury6925]

Just wonderful. Don’t believe Herodotus, he lied.

[@mirakbar9029]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I like the idea modern politicians fighting gladiator and die on the cause. we don't need to worry about him anymore taking bribe from big pharma companies.

[@sonarbangla8711]

There are many accounts of women dominating over men, Radhe-Krishna, the woman comes first before the man, there are many Egyptian examples. Yet Romans never defined the human nature of man and woman, but held in high esteem their homosexual habit. When Philippine became Christian, Duterte termed the Pope as a bastard. Roman values were uncivilized.

[@evitaaslanidou6150]

I am sorry to say but the information you have about how Spartan children were raised is not accurate. Boys were taken from their mothers after they were 7 years old. So before you have the next lecture about the subject maybe you should revisit the research on that matter

[@viperswhip]

I remember that abortion debate, and it's when my mind broke, too much of what happens in the world now wouldn't be out of place in a monty python sketch, and that's my problem, my brain finds this funny, but it's objectively horrible. That grad student debacle, that is so much out of a playbook of British comedy, I can hardly believe it happened, except there is video evidence., wtf.

[@amdegia]

🤯

[@viperswhip]

2020 Better candidate, baggage x 20.

[@rajguptauurajkumar1968]

Y

[@thewonderinggentile]

really, reaganomics?? mismanagement of what they already had didn't factor in at all? nothing like Flint isn't monocausal...

[@thewonderinggentile]

also, flint isn't hasn't been ran by republicans ever i don't think lol

[@Walt1972]

Love Mr Casagrana's lectures. Always interesting. However....we are racist because we do not think of Suemerians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans as Western Civ?!! Yes you do if you have some grasp of history. None history types may be thinking of modernity and has some idea about the renaissance. It's an unsubstantiated assumption to say this is down to racism.

[@user-sh2qw9ri7n]

hahahaha ... anybody thinks The Big Lebowski .. hahahaha .. the movie .. jkiding ,,, he is good .... alot of knowledge .. thanks alot ....

[@cristianluna5568]

Yes. I do think that. But unlike the big lebowski. This guy is actually interesting. Lol

[@isooo8175]

Superman is obviously Jesus. A super advanced alien named “Jor-El” sends his son “Kal-El” to the world from skies to save humanity. “El” is Semitic word for God. Michael, Gabriel, etc… all mean “God’s xxx”. 2006 movie return of Superman actually had resurrection of Superman and tok this beyond allegory and clearly showed the intention.

[@hllndsn1]

Is it vanity or courage to declare your own ignorance as if it were a conspiracy? I got taught in American pubic schools which must have been breakaway institutions of the conspiracy. Though I will admit I never heard about the cataract thing. Either that or in my youth i didnt think about nor dwell on cataracts as I do now in my decrepitude. Not that this guy's lectures aren't arent eonderfully entertaining and thought provoking.

[@traybae2_]

NO time spent on Africa