At the beginning of the first episode of #AncientApocalypse, Graham Hancock uses the phrase “species with amnesia.” It’s repeated over and over again.
Surely he knows this is the title of a book by the repugnantly racist, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, author Robert Sepehr.
Surely he knows this is the title of a book by the repugnantly racist, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, author Robert Sepehr.
In the second episode of #AncientApocalypse, Graham Hancock relies upon the interpretations of Italian businessman Marco Vigato, whose frankly white supremacist book on Atlantis (published by Inner Traditions) is a racist wet dream. It is laughably bad.
This is an illustration from Vigato’s book, in which he uses illustrations of crania from a Homo erectus, a hydrocephalic child, and a Paracas mummy to argue for a race of alien-human hybrids. It’s absurd. Yet this is who Hancock chooses to interpret reliefs at Xochicalco.
It’s true that Graham Hancock’s second wife is a dark-skinned Malaysian, photographer Santha Faiia, but his repeated allusions to survivors of a superior Ice Age civilization who bring culture to “primitive” hunters and gatherers is a colonialist, white supremacist trope.
By the way, for anyone who needs to hear this, Robert Sepehr is NOT an anthropologist.
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