#so why is he thirsting for 'amateur archaeologist mc thief' over there

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I've been watching "Tasting history with Max Miller" and it's a really interesting source of information, and utterly fascinating. And most of the time he has a very thoughtful and kind approach; he takes great effort to pronounce non english words, he brings up racism, colonialism and misogyny and the fact that history is about real people. But then he sometimes has these massive blind spots, where he uses ableist insults in what really isn't funny 'jokes', he sort of glorifies historical figures doing awful things (like the one guy who conquered india and pakistan and apparently lead to the downfall of local cuisine and culture from how he presented it), he is low key obsessed with war and military of the civil war in the us and world war 1, he apparently doesn't see the glaring red flags in "he restored order in this american gold rush town and expelled the low lifes with a heavy hand, a real hard manly man" (paraphrased, I'm not gonna look it up now) and keeps promoting diet culture and fat shaming (which he has apparently internalised a lot of), and for some inscrutable reason portrayed people in new york completely depleting and destroying the ecosystems of oysters in the area within mere years as a funny quirky thing. Like how does he not notice?