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Most people who believe that stuff believe because people who are considered experts say it’s true. Then that gets pushed downstream. It’s actually an extremely small group of people pushing this revisionism. If some extremely motivated people cared about this, the only response they would have is why do care and to call them weird. I’ve actually gotten people who pretend to believe it admit it’s not true by saying that a multicultural black England with a large black upper class would mean that blacks were largely responsible for the European side of the Atlantic slave trade. There’s just not a will to call people out on obvious bullshit.
Stuff like Bridgerton is openly alt-history if that’s what you’re referring to. It’s explicitly alt-history even.
People actually believe it though. I’ve legitimately had people tell me that queen was a black woman. But I’m not talking about that. Every movie now or television show that comes out has Black Anglo Saxons or Vikings or whatever. Look at the casting of a Gentleman in Moscow. They have dark black Slavs with dreadlocks and they play it 100% straight. I actually don’t care about that too much. It’s the no actually it’s true that comes out in mainstream publications afterwards.
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