Adam Ruins Everything - The Disturbing History of the Pilgrims | truTV

While history books teach of the Pilgrims industrious Plymouth Colony, how it was actually settled might come as a surprise.
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[@scoopersketchy]

Last part I was dead

[@xpirate16]

So were the Indians

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

xpirate16 god damn it you beat me to it

[@aljaberhk]

hi sketchy ghost

[@Teeleer]

i dont know, sounds kinda like me when i play fallout or skyrim

[@johndilton4539]

Teeleer yeah i know right, but then again i stop looting after end game because i either got super rich and just buy shipping supplies or i just got lazy and tired of looting.

[@TheJrbdog]

Except in Fallout or Skyrim, you murder the people and take their stuff. There's no grave digging.

[@Teeleer]

what about the ruins you go through?

[@TheJrbdog]

Those bodies usually come back to life, don't they?

[@Teeleer]

ya, but i also ment the ruins of fallout too

[@foresttrump2583]

abandoned village: * exists* pilgrims: "It's free real estate"

[@spyfreakm1]

Literally.

[@Traincauseyes]

Hold on...I feel like one of the actors from this episode is from rick and morty

[@normalnate3447]

@@Traincauseyes I think the guy that writes the journal is jerry

[@Traincauseyes]

@@normalnate3447 no way

[@thefanwithoutaface8105]

If it's abandoned, then yes it is free...that's why it's abandoned.

[@tomkelly00]

The settlers were like a typical d&d party

[@french_2049]

Ehh when I played D&D for the first time I wore a skull as a helmet

[@cacksm0ker]

Literally murder hobos

[@goldsrcorsource2551]

@@cacksm0ker "Murder hobo, every time"

[@jarosawsobinski1928]

In Witcher 3 I ate bread took from bandits i sliced in falf.

[@jarosawsobinski1928]

@@french_2049 Cool. I would use a skull as an ashtray.

[@SupaEMT134]

That last line was classic! "Are you writing this down??"

[@cousinchaos896]

SupaEMT134 yep

[@underwoodsean6]

literally lol

[@Dragonwing16]

Lol it’s a good point though. Why are you writing this down?

[@justbelish]

Keep this (bad word) a secret man!

[@uniwasamistake6334]

Modern equivalent would be stupid teenagers filming themselves breaking into a house and uploading to youtube.

[@scirusx5724]

"Keep this s*** a secret man!"

[@tenebrisevernight]

The point of the video isn't "The Pilgrims were terrible people," it was "The Pilgrims didn't build everything from the ground up with their bare hands." The narrator even starts off the video by stating the myth, and then the rest of the video debunks it. I don't know how you could misunderstand that.

[@majordonut4022]

Tenebris Evernight I get it but dude stfu

[@majordonut4022]

We get it

[@tenebrisevernight]

@@majordonut4022 Well a lot of people in the comments didn't get it. And did you just comment two different times?

[@madisyngolab330]

I understand what you mean, but you still have to admit, the Pilgrims WERE terrible people

[@A-Microwave]

@@tenebrisevernight he did

[@hellhounder1364]

Does anybody else think the narrator sound like Jerry from Rick and Morty?

[@bogingi]

Hellhounder 136 it is buddy it is

[@hellhounder1364]

mepof thought so. start the conspiracy theories!!

[@bogingi]

Hellhounder 136 North its a universe where jerry's even more nerd

[@hellhounder1364]

mepof ha!

[@xxthatonegamergirlxx8636]

Hellhounder 136 about to say something about that

[@dragonheart2272]

With the exception of the grave robbing (which is very disturbing) I agree with some of the decisions they made. The village was abandoned, so they weren't intruding on anyone. They did what they had to to survive.

[@AmronFortis]

I don't even mind the grave robbing. When does it stop being grave robbing and start being archeology? Who are we to decide?

[@skwills1629]

Amron, well Archeology doesit for researh. But I do agree, they didnt just rb graves out of greed, but to find useful items for survival.

[@jaymartin4320]

they died by the sickness they brought i think

[@peacefulinvasion]

I know this is an old reply, but its not really "disturbing" when you realize that's what archaeologists did when they excavated tombs. Heck its actually tame when you realize that archaeologists not only robbed graves, but they stole the bodies too. So excavating a tomb is essentially robbing a grave then snatching the bodies. All for the sole purpose of knowledge.

[@skwills1629]

@@peacefulinvasion True, and to be fair to the Settlers, they didn't just rob the graves, hey were trying to survive so it was desperation.

[@aporlarepublica]

Pilgrims: looting graves Also pilgrims: write it down so that everybody knows.

[@MrGksarathy]

They didn't view it as shameful at all.

[@jeffreygao3956]

@@MrGksarathy It's called desperation and starvation! Wouldn't it have helped the Pilgrims to maybe wait until late winter of the next year to sail to have time to plant crops in spring or summer, harvest in autumn, and eat in winter?

[@-Xaverius]

That's disturbing, But also not that surprising IMHO

[@kamronspencer4910]

Erebus some settlers even ate the bodies found in graves when they couldn’t get enough food other ways. Understandable they needed to live but still super disturbing

[@flackstar007]

You mean the way the settlers were extremely self entitled and were ready to break laws when it suited them to take things not belonging to them, their souther ancestors are no better of course and are mostly upset with the fact that modern laws don't allow them to declare purge day a thing.

[@runnercomet9191]

welp, graverobbing was part of a course, yeah, not really something shocking, but still disturbing by modern standarts

[@rainbowsky6257]

kamron spencer well That answers my question.

[@cecedoll88]

It's disturbing that people tried to survive?

[@pythiasibyls6269]

If anyone alive today was dropped off on a a now uninhibited island and found an abandoned village, they'd be liars if they said they'd not take advantage of the existing buildings and resources. Hell, leave a building empty for too long in a city today and you'll get squatters, be it in the US or the Netherlands. As for the grave robbing, what do these people think has happened in all cultures and times? You dig stuff up to see who the people were and to get their stuff. Museums are monuments to grave robbing.

[@chrisp.2852]

Pythia Sibyls yes they would but its a useless argument saying most people would take advantige of buildings as the adam isent condeming them but just saying its not as magical as people are often told

[@ericrobert9708]

Someone who doesn't watch horror movies does all of these things...

[@pisces2569]

There is a huge difference between grave robbing and an archaeological dig though granted some of the stuff in a museum did come from legit grave robbing

[@aadkinsl3095]

That's literally the whole issue with museums. Countless indigenous communities (mine included) are actively campaigning to have our traditional artifacts and skeletal remains returned to the communities where they belong. While there are some museums that are good with working with communities (see Museum of Vancouver, Canadian Museum of History and Museum of Anthropology at UBC), for the most part, they refuse to return objects back to their rightful owners.

[@jabberwockydraco4913]

Pythia Sibyls There’s more emphasis on “let’s not bs it to make the pilgrims look good, they were squaters who subsisted on old corn and robbed graves.” It’s not glamourous but I’d rather accurate history than myths told to indoctoranate children into a flimsy halfbaked patriotic spirit.

[@J1P2K]

I read one of the journals from the Puritans (or Pilgrims), and you want to know how important Thanksgiving was? It only was a paragraph long throughout the entire thing.

[@huntergraham702]

What was the name of it? I'd love to give it a read myself.

[@MrGksarathy]

Yeah, and very little was said about the feast itself.

[@mr.l3992]

Me: Why is this series rated M? I thought everything in show was ok- 1:21 Me: Oh... (But still does new Adam episode come on TV?)

[@Slooneyy]

Mr.L it came on Tuesday (Adam Ruins the Revolution) or something like that

[@agustinval1508]

Omg he said the s word

[@stephenking5852]

I had the same reaction

[@squiddler7731]

Weird. They usually replace the profanities with fish.

[@williamdritt281]

Mr.L

[@krimsonfel3676]

“All great civilizations are built off the backs of disposable work force...” Man is that quote applicable to this.

[@asktheetruscans9857]

The greatest civilizations are built with the disposable income of the common worker. -Me

[@lolguy776]

I really like how they source all of their facts. very nice.

[@Scott89878]

Many Pilgrims died the first winter. They did not kill the previous peoples with disease, other people did. Building in an abandoned village was a smart move, otherwise, you could be years clearing the land for agriculture. In that time, most of the land was forested so any openings the natives had made were the places to settle.

[@Anonymous-wc3fe]

The grave robbing.

[@joestoes2503]

@@Anonymous-wc3fe the dead don’t care

[@bignerdbird3375]

Nobody said it was a bad thing, just that they didn't build Plymouth up with their bare hands

[@faithdougherty1697]

@@Anonymous-wc3fe you mean what archeologists do nowadays for no reason.

[@Brandonhayhew]

It was build a home and die of winter or settle in abandoned home and shelter themselves from winter

[@nathanpellerito7013]

The reason that the Pilgrims were unprepared to start a colony was because they planned to go to Jamestown and help there instead of building a place from scratch

[@MrGksarathy]

Not true. They were planning to go to New England, but got blown like 100 or so miles off course.

[@avihyde]

I literally find nothing disturbing about that. They're trying to survive and probably wouldn't have if they didn't.

[@JoshityJosh]

Avi Hyde how would digging up graves help them survive

[@cerbzzz7147]

How would digging up graves help them

[@savenetneutralityanti-repu7029]

They could have just stayed in England, murdered their oppressive rulers, and eaten the flesh of kings and priests to survive. Cannibalizing your oppressors is an extremely effective method of ending tyranny.

[@edisonlima4647]

Things is, in some of cases, they were noobs to the core. To some settlements they brought all sorts of lower middle class city folk to buikd their colony, but forgot to bring freaking farmers!

[@cplpetergriffin1583]

@@JoshityJosh to sell dipshit. You could buy all sorts of food with jewelry.

[@SLOT-mrpark]

There's this fantastic live action Squanto movie that they used to show us every year of elementary school about him being taken to England by the British (the reason he could speak English and communicate well with the settlers) and the brutality he faced there. It also shows his return to North America and his horror at the British having taken over the native village Adam talks about, which was once a neighboring tribe to Squanto's own before they all died of disease while he was facing hardships in England (another big shock he got upon his return). Edit: I might be a little off about the exact story, though. Please forgive me; I haven't seen it since fifth grade.

[@terenceangelo8714]

That account of Squanto was actually mentioned in the full episode.

[@jeffreygao3956]

You mean Tisquantum.

[@MrGksarathy]

Tisquantum was actually from Patuxet.

[@liv753]

I actually already know this. My history teacher show us some documentary. My first reaction was “yeah that seem like what people would do” until they started digging grave.

[@ccggenius]

You seriously need to ask why people would assume that fanatically devout Christians would be above grave robbing?

[@inspectorjavert9868]

Hey more on the book thing how do we know this wasnt just a group of people and not all of the Pilgrams who agreed to it

[@skwills1629]

Natasel, they were not thusands of iles away from VIrginia...

[@skwills1629]

CCGGENius, well, to survive maybe? Also, not all Christians hare the same views. The Puritains, whi by the way wore colourful clothing and not the Black and white Pilgrim Garb we're use to, actually thought all possessions belonged to the Living and it was a Sin to bury any but clothing for modesty with the Dead. You cannot tak items with you to the Afterlife, and the Living have claim to the Earth. They aren;t Catholic, or most other groups.

[@skwills1629]

Evan, actually the term Pretty meant cuning or wiley or useful in the past. It shanged meing and I fear Adam doesn't know how words change over Time. www.etymonline.com/word/pretty WHen they took the Prettiest items, this mens most useful or best constructed.

[@ArtistXXX]

1:19 Exactly! Love it!😆👍

[@aliciabell6688]

If I were poor and starving, i might have done the same thing. Check out those mortality rates.

[@trenvert123]

But would you claim to everyone that you survived only due to your own strength and ingenuity?

[@bluesteel1]

I dont think robbin graves is necessary for survival

[@pumpkinthighs]

@@bluesteel1 depends on what is inside the graves tbh

[@MinecraftLD10]

Cyril , this why you lost Lana. You can’t remember that past...

[@cantalope6980]

Most of the things stated in the video are actually pretty smart of the pilgrims. The founders of Plymouth were not supposed to land in Massachusetts, so they were not prepared for landing in a new area with no food, water, and shelter. They didn’t have to fight anybody to have a roof over their heads. The items they took from the graves was a smart idea because again, they weren’t prepared for anything, and the items could’ve been used to help the pilgrims survive, or be traded to native Americans for more food or as a peace treaty.

[@janmoravek157]

Still doesnt change the fact its immoral to dig up someone's grave.

[@cantalope6980]

@@janmoravek157 gotta do what you gotta do right

[@dynastypierce3997]

@@janmoravek157 Archeologists do it all the time in the name of "knowledge" and not only have they dug up graves to take items, but they have taken bodies as well, let's not forget they get paid to do something immoral. So want to start protesting against them? At least the pilgrims did it for the sole purpose of surviving.

[@evansageser6943]

​@@dynastypierce3997 Native Americans have a long history of protesting archeologists treating the graves of their ancestors as dig sites, and carting away grave goods and remains to sit in museums so this is not the slam dunk argument you think it is.

[@dynastypierce3997]

@@evansageser6943 Says the one that came back with a terrible argument. You really wasted time on that?

[@ShubhamBhushanCC]

The settlers almost starved. They didn't know how to survive in New England winter. This harrowing experience illustrated the need for slaves and thus began the Atlantic slave trade. America was founded on genocide and sustained by slavery. Hard truth. It doesn't make you personally responsible but it does mellow down you a lot.

[@yanniskarageorgiou3573]

Shubham Bhushan This was objective overall but at the start sounded conservative and finished kinda liberal.

[@mohaghnachoudhury2822]

Very well said. Could not have said better myself.

[@truthspeaks1265]

Shubham Bhushan The cold truth of this god forbidden country.

[@mohaghnachoudhury2822]

Looks like you comment is drawing out sourpuss white supremacists. The fact that USA was founded on the heels of genocide is undisputed. No need to whine about it.

[@truthspeaks1265]

ShogunBean Ever been to Kuwait? They are a good few years ahead of some Western culture.Kuwait's cities, same with UAE, along with Saudi Arabia, look better than Europe, who's buildings are still in the dark ages. need to get hot headed over a pilgrim subject. They were protestants who escaped religious oppression and came to North America. It is true they attacked the local natives. There have been records on some skirmishes outside of Jamestown because "the indians were hunting too close" or "they refuse to donate fish". And they invaded them. Now I notice you are fond over western culture? Which one are you? The wild protesting, brick throwing, bomber? Or the school, mass shooter?

[@zikamaster]

Of course, conveniently Adam didn't mention actual natives eventually PERMITTING the Pilgrims from the Mayflower to settle in an abandoned village. The Pilgrims were dying of scurvy, cold and malnutrition. They took what ever they could. Also the native man called Squanto allowed them to eat their reserves of corn [which they never saw before] and taught them how to plant corn and catch eel.

[@jeffreygao3956]

Tisquantum was little more than a backstabbing, dingleberried insurrectionist who turned against Grand Ruler Ousamequin, Massasoit of the Wampanoag homeworld. Ousamequin was right to demand Tisquantum's head.

[@nolanddean5680]

why should pilgrims not use existing structures for their village? Thats not disturbing of unprepared, it is a logical reaction to minimal supply.

[@Metalfalcon]

i think the whole point is that most people believe in another history.

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

True, however the point of mentioning these things is because the pilgrams are usually glorified in a way that twists reality and tries to put them in a brighter light. Many people grow up with and believe in disneyfied versions. The real question is, why do you feel upset by the mention of these things. Don't you think these things should be clearly spelt to people so they don't get a warped picture of the past

[@heathercameron1485]

That's the thing. It would be disturbing if the pilgrims banished them from the village, but they were already gone! The natives from the village were already dead and not coming back. The village was up for grabs by anybody who needed it. That shouldn't be disturbing. That's basic human survival.

[@deeblue984]

Noland Dean - u missed the whole spiel....they lied and said that THEY did everything...when the area was actually turn key. Being liars is just ONE of many wicked characteristics on the list. The truth has been hidden from the VERY beginning...that's why it such a great shock to many.

[@sup4744]

Heather Cameron That doesn't all of a sudden mean that the pilgrims took over new lands from the native americans. Also, grave robbing, really?

[@Помогитеменя]

Good video, though I think people back then had a different mindset to our soft modern ones, as people would have just accepted death as a nearly daily occurrence.

[@peacefulinvasion]

I honestly don't see how this is disturbing. I've honestly seen far worse in history. It sounds more like survival, wisdom, and being resourceful. Yes they did move into an abandoned village. Yes most of that village was killed off via disease. But it wasn't like those houses were being used anyways. Its not like they chased the natives out of their homes. Why waste energy building a shelter, when you can use a prebuilt one? That energy could be spent on other aspects of survival. And again the shelters were not in use. Now lets look at the food. Again this isn't disturbing at all. Yes the natives stored that food for themselves, but they didn't exactly live long enough to eat it. Do keep in mind they didn't have a grocery store nearby. While we can EASILY walk to the nearest grocery store and have a huge assortment of food to chose from, the pilgrims didn't have that. The nearest grocery store (or closest thing to a grocery store) was clear across the Atlantic. Meaning all food had to either be hunted, farmed, or gathered. Farming takes time so they needed a short term solution. Keep in mind survival is about taking advantage of all opportunities given to you. Now lets talk grave robbing. Yes on the surface it sounds creepy. But its actually not disturbing at all. In fact if you visit a museum, this is exactly how they got their artifacts. You didn't think they actually asked the Ancient Egyptians for permission when exploring King Tut's tomb. Excavating a tomb is basically a fancy term for "Grave Robbing." Heck you can even add body snatching to the excavation list, as we took the mummies for research purposes. Keep that in mind when you visit a museum. (yes its creepy but it wasn't really a crime). Now then somebody please tell me what crimes the pilgrims committed again. It sounds more like they took advantage of prebuilt shelters, gathered food, and excavated a few graves.

[@totally-randomenzo7081]

Point is, they did not acknowledge the existing structures, they pretended as if they started everything from scratch themselves

[@starcherry6814]

LOL I did not know any of this!!! What surprised me most was the grave robbing! I thought that they were strict Christians, isn’t that stealing?

[@inspectorjavert9868]

I dont think they had a choice I think the Captain may have made them do it

[@cornpuffs9621]

Yea is this not common knowledge? I mean why would they work start a fresh settlement anyways.

[@ZatchZXman]

I mean, they weren't the first people to immigrate to North America.

[@valeshan]

this isn't common knowledge. We tend to paint the past in very favourable light. Pilgrims being noble, moral, hardworking, selfless and fair individuals, the true epitome of pioneering; when they were just average joes with questionable morals.

[@valeshan]

Natasel Very odd thing to relate to. Some tribes used rock material, called caliche, to make their buildings. A famous example are now the casa grande ruins, over 500yrs old.

[@labanredowl17]

Makes sense considering the whole country is an Indigenous burial ground and the colonizers took almost all of it and left us with scraps.

[@mayshohngovan9753]

Well I’m done with high school 😂😂.... bruh school is such a lie to when a comes to history 😬🤦🏾‍♂️😭😭

[@Nagatem]

Good to see nothing has changed from then to now Profit > morality Is basically the American way just ask any big business

[@bulletbill1104]

Nagatem Ts The pilgrims were religious settlers, not economic ones. Also, one case of a then globally common crime doesn’t make them rich or greedy. God, I can almost sense the edgy 13 year old from the screen alone

[@rhyscampbell3489]

Lol it’s actually just human nature in general

[@GaryTurbo]

Actually, most came for economic oppurtunity

[@qawamity]

To be fair, the pilgrims' intended destination was Jamestown, Virginia. They were not prepared to start from scratch because they planned on going to an already established colony. The graverobbing... well, if they did it for tools that they didn't have I could understand it, but they took jewelry and such as well, so they don't get a free pass there.

[@MrGksarathy]

They weren't planning to go to Virginia. They were actually working for a private company intending to start a fur trapping business in the northeast. They were blown off course, but not from Jamestown.

[@SassyandalwaysClassy]

I live in Plymouth. You guys should really come here. We have a lotta stuff honoring Native American history. And I see archeologists frequently in the summer looking for Native American remains.

[@raad8150]

incoming triggered "patriots"

[@mr.outlaw231]

Eh. To be fair, they did survive a trip that took weeks with the tech they had, meaning that supplies from Europe would take forever (And that is if no storm hit them on the way to and from Europe), and the pure fact that they couldn't stay in ship, since diseases would spread easier, means that settling in a dead village would be, in terms of survival, better than having an entire ship full of sick people.

[@bulletbill1104]

Raad What to be triggered about? Tell me with a straight face that you wouldn’t have done the same. Sure, maybe one mention of grave robbery is bad, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is survival of the fittest

[@nobodyimportant2470]

@BulletBill110 they would get triggered by the facts being different than their narrative. It isn't saying that settling in an abandoned village was wrong, it is pointing out that the Pilgrims didn't build their town from the ground up. If it was taught to them in 1st grade it must be 100% accurate. Similar to how we were taught that everyone thought the world was flat until Columbus found the new world. In reality most people knew the earth was round but the math showed the distance to sail from Europe to Asia by going west to be much to far to go without places to resupply and as far as anyone knew there was nothing but water between them.

[@zoeynot1013]

History is a tricky subject, many different perspectives and rewriting. What the people in the past did was questionable, it doesn't change the future. If someone gives you facts or s rebuttal that doesn't mean they are triggered, it just means they have facts for you to see. I believe you don't become triggered till you resort to using insults to prove a point that doesn't exist.

[@leedent6796]

Well I think Adam takes a lot of liberties with animation, and what the characters say. When the Plymouth settlers first arrived they were starving, and cold they needed land quick, and they found an abandoned village, they thought that the Indians harvested crops like they did with fields, so when they saw fields with wild grass they assumed crop fields it was only upon plowing that they found out they were grave sites. Men like Edward Winslow were appalled, and though the Wampanoag Chief Massasoit was unnerved he forgave them. I think the first wave of English colonists at Plymouth save for a few like Myles Standish liked the Indians, when Massasoit became deathly ill Winslow traveled for days by himself through the snow, and stayed up for an entire day praying by Massasoit's side. I think though the dynamic of the relationship changed when the English got word that a tribe of Massachusetts Indians may've been plotting an attack on Plymouth, and the English had responded by wiping out that tribe's village, and Myles Standish personally chopped the head of the village's Sachem. This terrified every New England Tribe who suddenly wanted to be friends with the English because they didn't want to get murdered. Later on though the relationship deteriorated when Edward Winslow, and Massasoit died, their sons Metacomet called Phillip by the English, and Josiah Winslow hated eachother, and it would actually be Josiah's actions that led to King Phillip's War. But I digress Adam makes the intent of the English to malicious when they were fighting for survival, and had no idea what they were digging up.

[@emprrpalps]

ONE OF THE PILGRIMS IN THIS VIDEO REPRESENTS MY 10th GREAT GRANDFATHER

[@JoseRamirez-yh2ll]

Because I'm a pilgrim I like turkey!?BECAUSE IM A PILGRAM I LIKE TURKEY?!?!

[@CalebratedTV]

History Teacher: **shows this video** Pilgrims: Narc...

[@wukongamatics2748]

Do you wanna write an accurate history book?

[@wukongamatics2748]

Zach Arbogast It was supposed to be a reference to Frozen, but thanks for the recommendation.

[@SynsterFear]

Sounds about White.

[@catsmeow4870]

Can not wait for season 3😁😁😁😁😁

[@TheWindowsPCVidsOfficial]

This *is* season 3 of _Adam Ruins Everything._

[@catsmeow4870]

Luis oh.... I am a little bit disappointed the live action series had plot lines that I wanted to be continued but I love the animation so it will be OK I guess I wonder why did they do this though

Folks, READ the actual texts of their letters: Did the Pilgrims rob Indian graves? Not really. As Winslow said, “ because we deemed them graves, we put in the bow again and made it up as it was, and left the rest untouched, because we thought it would be odious unto them to ransack their sepulchres.” There’s more to the story. Adam LIES about everything.

[@bfnvalley]

Am I supposed to be shocked by this? Like, surprise surprise living in the 1600s was difficult and so morals were weird. I don’t understand what this is supposed to make me feel. He speaks with a condescending tone so I feel like he’s trying to make me feel bad for something?

[@verdatum]

I don't think you're supposed to be shocked exactly. You're more supposed to be surprised that you never heard these parts of the story. The condescending tone isn't directed at the audience so much as it is directed at the narrator, representative of other teachers and storytellers who crafted a sanitized version of our history; particularly when most of our knowledge of the pilgrims comes from a very few number of sources. Shoot, the entirety of our sources on the first thanksgiving only make up like 4 extremely short paragraphs. So it's a bit messed up that we get taught a bunch of BS instead of the actual accounts.

[@bfnvalley]

verdatum I got taught that the creation of America wasn’t sunshine and rainbows. Idk where all of you went to school, but all I seem to hear is “they never taught me this!” Like did everyone but me just not pay attention? And I went to A LOT of schools, I moved a bunch.

[@rodrigorebollos]

You must've gotten lucky...I never heard of it...and I was in the honors so I'm sure I listened! Yeah...I knew the times were tough but never heard of them digging up graves and living on what is technically an indian graveyard.

[@АлександрБолбат-ы1у]

Of course he is trying to make you feel bad, this is what this show is about. Adam Ruins Everything used to be a good series debunking common myths and misconceptions, but now it's just non-stop blatant SJW propaganda. It happened quite some time ago actually. In this case Adam is given a task to make it look like pilgrims were doing this for fun. They are portrayed as healthy, raiders just enjoying their lives. Not that they had reasons to do what they did - they just felt like it. So be a good boy and feel guilty about something you never did.

[@wackokicker]

you are less than a fart in the wind... nobody cares about your feelings

[@justaguyonearth]

Jerry voice from Rick and morty

[@marktrevino8451]

Dammit Jerry

[@vow4621]

They also didn't come to escape religious persecution. The Puritans fled because they lost power in England and couldn't religiously persecute their enemies anymore.

[@wyattalford9064]

Again why is it TV MA

[@chrisgalindo3678]

Wyatt 1:21

[@GoffCool]

Saying that is allowed in a TV 14 rating. So again why is this rated TV MA?

[@LaineMann]

I think because of some of the things they talk about like sexual acts.

[@GoffCool]

Which can also be put in a TV 14 Rating. Unless it is actually talking about the act in very vulgar explicit detail and or showing Sex then it fits in a TV MA show. Also So again why is this rated TV MA?

[@GaryTurbo]

Why in the hell does it matter?

[@broabi7690]

American christians: why is god sending us huricans and tsunamis every yeahr jesus why!? We are good christians Also american when nobody is looking:

[@xihangyang]

paul logan in 1600

[@flax72l.a13]

And i kill him with the deadly death-note inspired wish death type: black plague (with taro yamada's anti censorship)

[@tnerbtnerb5136]

Of all the groups to lionize as the iconic "first colonists of america", we chose a bunch of psychotic splinter Calvinists.

[@jgee8421]

It's also not just civilization by woods. North and very South and tundras Southern regions has jungle And in between beaches, desserts, grasslands/marches etc

[@epsilonicronecronomicon]

Me: Shows this to my 6th grade class Video: Keep this sh*t secret man Kids: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH KILL IT KILL IT

[@empratt5800]

Wow. You did it. You depicted the Pilgrims in those stereotypical yet totally inaccurate clothes. I can’t believe *this* show of all shows is perpetuating that B.S. Victorian-invented idea of what the Pilgrims wore. And worse than the inaccuracy, this stereotype of Pilgrim dress helps encourage the common yet mistaken conflagration of the Pilgrims and the Puritans. OK, so the impoverished Pilgrims may have committed a bit of grave robbing to stave off starvation and grab some valuables in order to freaking survive. They still don’t deserve to be made out to kinda resemble the wealthiest of the Puritans, who hated and straight up killed Native Americans, Quakers, and anyone they thought was a witch. It wasn’t the people who dined with the Wampanoags and created the Mayflower Compact who Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller depicted as intolerant assholes. Let’s not mix them up.

[@Chrishum]

Is this a “fr” or “ong” moment?

[@jeffreygao3956]

Technically, the black was formal wear. Colors like yellow, olive, medium green, dark blue, light blue, or pink were more common. Rule of thumb: People from the past liked to look nice.

[@cowardtoe6532]

Well it’s not like they forced the people out of the village it was dead to begin with so yeah nothing wrong with Plymouth except maybe the grave digging.

[@TitanicTruths]

I can't wait for his Lincoln episode. It will totally ruin most peoples hisroric fake hero views of his time in office.

[@tonymancuso1340]

Titanic Truths bruh you dumb

[@Jbtw01]

if you think a 30 minute tv show will totally devastate a person’s point of view, think again

[@Woynich]

He’s not entirely wrong though. Lincoln was an avid supporter of segregation. “There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races ... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas” -Lincoln, in an 1857 speech on the Dredd Scott court decision.

[@tullussulla6167]

I also heard he'll would send them back to where they came from.

[@whyhellothere3471]

What fine Evidence

[@aldrineuri122]

Yeah corn fruits don't come from underground

[@TarigonTetradactyl]

Lazy people

[@japaneselover2123]

0:00 ITS A GHOST 👻

[@CandleCoveCast]

0:43 Ahhhhhhh!

[@Flixxy0]

NEW EPISODE

[@MrThias91]

Wait a minute.. is that Jerry's voice from Rick and Morty?

[@GustavoRodriguez-qr5po]

So if the land was vacant i see no issues The British were much kinder than the Spanish. Canada, Australia vs the Caribbean islands I love spain today dont get me wrong. But Columbus was a monster. Although he was punished by the crown so pretty progressive for a monarch 500+ years ago

[@inspectorjavert9868]

Columbus wasn't a monster sure he drank and they sent him out there to die but he didn't mean to kill all those Indians it was the horrible diseases his crew and probably he carried

[@skwills1629]

No, h killed and enslaved them. He was also sent by Portugal...

[@enzosee2775]

The narrator sound like the voice actor of jerry from Rick and morty

[@illbeuroni-chan2218]

Except they rebuilt the entire infrastructure of the village, and your source for grave robbing states no name which is very suspicious if it's a journal.

[@MetalSonicReject]

Maybe because either the writer didn’t write his name in his journal or, more than likely, passages that had his name faded from aging.

[@illbeuroni-chan2218]

MetalSonicReject names were enscribed in journals covers and were written in numerous places, being the common practice. Also the names of all residents of the colonies were recorded and could easily be used to find their name, especially since other journals could give insight based on similar actions, which of have never recorded grave robbing.

[@enfercesttout]

how is it "except"?

[@illbeuroni-chan2218]

existential. anarchist Adam framed it as if they just completely stole land that currently belonged to no one and made no improvements.

[@enfercesttout]

As framed in the beggining, adam countered the idea that settlers built their villages on empty wilderness. This is not the argument of whether they did anything at all or not. They obviously did.

[@averagamer9222]

You're right, Adam DOES ruin everything... Especially the reputation of cable TV.

[@valasafantastic1055]

I mean seriously Francis TMI. But they did build all the buildings, and also many natural places may have just as easily had the fields and water so not a huge deal really. And am I the only one with an Adventures spirit in that umm the dead don’t really need that stuff, the living can use it so I don’t have a problem with grave robbing. But I also want to be cremated and leave all my stuff to the living and not waste space in the ground and be the fertilizer for a new tree someone plants. I actually have much more of a moral problem with dead people thinking they still get stuff, and with anyone being buried with cool stuff the living people of this world could still use. Ancient Egyptians took this to a psycho extreme. They would even murder slaves to bury with the dead pharaoh at one point. So I think if someone ALIVE can use it there is no responsible argument why their is a good reason to bury anything with the dead.it’s not eco friendly or thinking of the living. Also they didn’t have that much stuff, so recycling. I have a bigger issue with all of the following pilgrim related activities; spreading disease, murdering living natives, stealing from living natives, reneging on agreements with natives when gold or other valuables were discovered, extreme sexism, slavery, burning or otherwise expecting ‘witches’, being cruel to work animals, forced marriages, being prejudice to any other religious or spiritual beliefs that differed from their own, etc, etc.

[@darrienjones8917]

ValasaFantastic The problem with that thinking is that it gives people reason to destroys the heritage of another culture to the point that no one no longer knows the truth about the people who came before. That was their heritage and they reduced it to trinkets simply because they liked the way it looked. It wasn't just about value. It's about removing the evidence that they existed in the first place.

[@jeremynewcombe3422]

Stereotypical J Cole Fan No, I wouldn't be ok. I'd be dead.

[@jeremynewcombe3422]

Stereotypical J Cole Fan Pretty much. I know what you're saying about respecting the dead, but keep in mind these guys dug up year-old food. Digging up some jewellery from a grave is just part of making money to survive. Not to mention if the tribes dead.

[@valasafantastic1055]

I’ll also add that stuff buried in the ground is useless and wasteful and I am on the side of Archeology and museums and research and education. I don’t think stuff in graves helps anyone but research museums and science does.

[@candicebruff1136]

ValasaFantastic u do understand that without being buried with that stuff like the pharaoh's where we would not have the extent of knowledge that we now possess about them and their culture. It helps u understand what was there before you. Also this video is not distracting the pilgrims from doing what they needed to survive it's simply debunking the myth that pilgrims built everything from scratch.

[@helennkoli3610]

The 2nd voice over guy sounds like jerry from rick and morty

[@wales2815]

Aside from the grave robbing ordeal, there was nothing wrong with settling where they did

[@jorenbaplu5100]

who is the storyteller? i feel like i know his voice but can't pin it down

[@Ianassa91]

Evidence?

[@shanemason5572]

I'm trying to find a problem here. And all I see are solutions

[@gerardomacias7370]

Do you think there was that one guy who dug up a grave and was like, "Heads up.", or "And they said there was nobody here."

[@controversialCoven]

We actually learned the true story in school

[@TickedOffPriest]

I hope he touches on how Communism almost destroyed the settlement.

[@UndertakerU2ber]

+TickedOff Priest He probably won’t. That would make a majority of his target audiences pissed...

[@markhackett2302]

Since communism was Marx in the 1860s, quite a while before the above, how can it cause the earlier problems you insist out of think air???

[@robboss9098]

Mark Hackett you really can't figure that out...?

[@markhackett2302]

Ross, I've figured lots of that's out. Have you not figured any that's out, not even what that is?

[@Archris17]

Mark Hackett Just because the official name for it and an organised book for what's effectively become an ideology almost akin to religion wasn't around yet, doesn't mean the principals didn't exist. Oddly enough though, on a small scale like a single small town of struggling colonists, communism actually kinda works... And kinda doesn't. It still needs a strong, central authority that dictates work and rations to the people, something that 'true' communism and indeed, the pilgrims in Plymouth didn't have. So I guess it's less true to say that Communism works and far more true to say that, in an emergency situation, dictatorship works.

[@misskarimuyes]

Good LORD!!!!!! these damn colonizers.

[@db2180]

The glamorous facade of white American History is going down in flames this season. Nothing like the truth coming out to reveal that American history is nothing more than a bunch of materialistic bullies not wanting to pay taxes and impose their will on everyone else. I love one American politician saying that blacks have contributed nothing to society. I love watching the global contributions of the white man. I make why kid watch this show after he does his history homework. He is home-schooled and I look at that material and just sigh. I remember being super suspect of my American history classes when I was a child. And then investigating it when I was an adult. Adam has helped me bring the truth and it should be required watching.

[@robboss9098]

David Blue you know the African people enslaved their own kind and then sold them to the English/Spanish/Portuguese right?

[@turkeygod6665]

Keep talking, this is entertaining

[@toxic_tomb1238]

Fun fact: native americans have the some of the strongest immune systems in the world today and my tribe (miwok) the strongest

[@poopsiepop4179]

Nice

[@jonbilgutay8797]

Personally, I'm not bothered by these dark historical facts; slavery, wiping out natives, etc. After all, no point crying over spilt milk.

[@RHR199X]

it'd the past what can we expect to do about it in the present day??

[@jonbilgutay8797]

Oh, I'm sure the SJW community has some ideas.

[@TheEmpress1768]

Not if the spilt milk hasn't been cleaned up.

[@matthewegan5281]

Maybe honor our treaties with the natives? Or, some of them? It's bad faith not to.

[@cookie.lover007]

Oh my fricking Jesus, it's Jerry's voice!

[@Profligateslayer]

I rlly don’t see a problem with using an abandoned village as a settlement.

[@mkjudkins]

Then you’re kinda messed up.

[@Profligateslayer]

CarterJ319 well tell me what the problem is then lmao

[@mkjudkins]

Steve the Killer of Ender Dragons Because people died there AND it was full of diseases, also there where dead skeletons of the people not to mention that they made stuff like axes and brought them there just so they could make homes themselves.

[@Profligateslayer]

CarterJ319 how can an abandoned village be full of diseases (aside from MAYBE food) Also, if they’re destroying an abandoned village, that isn’t really that bad... it’s... abandoned...

[@themoonkey2216]

When you find a village in Minecraft when you spawn.

[@planet_dawsey595]

Hmhm *pushes glasses up face A C T U A L L Y

[@sargeant121]

I wouldn’t call it disturbing lol

[@bat534]

*Rick Sanchez enters the chat* “I don’t give a crap about what you think, Jerry”

[@ambulance_boy3834]

This was another biased video... Keep up the lies and you'll believe them.

[@carmenthefrog2313]

I love how Jerry from Rick and Morty is the voice over guy

[@V2011F]

Well to respond to Adams facts. One you are in a new world where you literally are cut off from civilization my two months sea travel. Also the first houses were pre-made, yet the remaining houses were build from the local lumber. Whats more the people were starving many of them had nearly died of starvation when they arrived in Plymouth so you cannot blame them for eating what they found, and if they found items buried and felt as though the could be useful as they did not have a lot of stuff to use themselves they were low on resources as it was. Now do I support that the desecrated the graves of dead people no, but if they used or sold those items to buy food and equipment take care of themselves they were in the right in this instance.

[@inspectorjavert9868]

But what about James town though

[@V2011F]

That one they did build from scratch having to deal with starvation, lack of crops, and hostile Indian tribes attacking them on a near weekly basis it is a miracle the colony survived in the first place. John Smith had to resort to trickery in order to try and get corn to feed his men while the first Governor was split in half with a elk antler groin to head. Also they were outnumbered and had to make the colony's original foundation a fort just to deter attacks and give them some level of defense. They did manage to make it big with the tobacco industry that they traded for food and weapons. Slaves were brought over after the colony reached the 1,000 population mark, yet they were usually house slaves meant to help raise the families and they were only enslaved for at most 20 years at the very least 1 year. (P.S. Not saying slavery was good at all just giving context) It wasn't until about forty years after the founding that they managed to be a self sustaining colony that didn't have to worry about being attacked, or starving if they were low on food.

[@inspectorjavert9868]

Thank you for clearing that up

[@V2011F]

no problem

[@vsauce0130]

Like how it's Jerry from Rick and morty's voice

[@evansheehan9258]

So they had no choice to live in ruins and live off of food left behind in the ground. Kinda blows.

[@ZartruS]

Why you won't let people out of USA see all entire episode. Canal+ do that outside France we people who pirated their content.

[@Reundem1]

Typical Brits xD

[@AVAL2775]

I'm sorry but from I see you misquoted it It wasn't just the prettiest things the tribe was carried with things like bowls So yes it was an urgency

[@yassi8814]

Disturbing indeed

[@LaCoalicion.]

ITS THE VOICE OF CYRIL FIGGIS OF ARCHER!!!

[@theonecalledvino8165]

If this was a movie... I'd have Owen Wilson play that last part!

[@TrustaMann]

Now this...this i just...gotta see

[@DarkRed]

Jerry Smith