What about the crusades huh

What about the crusades huh Jun 18, 2019 21:12:27 GMT

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Post by gadreel on Jun 18, 2019 21:12:27 GMT

Jun 18, 2019 8:19:02 GMT Winter_King said:

Jun 18, 2019 1:06:18 GMT gadreel said:

People dont say 'what about the crusades' because they dont know why they were started, they say what about the crusades because of how barbaric the Christians were. It's like saying what about the Russian front.

In any case the presenter does not really give any real depth or understanding of the crusades, he basically is simply engaging in whataboutism, which ironically is exactly what the oh what about the crusades cry is touted as being about.

If the crusaders were such lovely people, forced into a war by the horrible mossies, why did they persecute Jews as often as possible along the way?

Not just Jews. Pagan and other Christians were also attacked. One of the more lasting consequences of the Crusades was the sack of Constantinople in 1204, the capital of Orthodox Christianity and that played the role in the eventual conquest of the city by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.

Like I said, the problem with Crusades is that very often people try to turn a very complex period into simple terms of who was in the right and who was in the wrong.

Yeah I gave one quick example, honestly the OP is not worth more effort.