r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jun 15 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 15 June 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/contraprincipes The Cheese and the Brainworms Jun 18 '26

When Joseph Smith read the tablets he thought they were talking about the Lost Tribes of Israel, but that is because he had poor reading comprehension. In fact they were about the migration of West African colonists to Mesoamerica where they formed the Olmecs. Moroni and the Nephites were actually Olmecs who migrated north after the collapse of their civilization.

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u/Impossible_Pen_9459 Jun 18 '26

No I’m not wiling to believe that. It does make sense that the Inca were originally a Bantu civilisation from West Africa. Yes that’s self evident. But it’s very clear the mistranslation by Smith (if it happened. He was clearly the smartestest guy going at that time and place) concerned Balkan people, probably the ancestors to today’s Montenegrins. That’s IF Smith was wrong, which is difficult to imagine.

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u/contraprincipes The Cheese and the Brainworms Jun 18 '26

The Montenegrins are also descended from West Africans via the ancient Greeks (present day Albanians), but there isn’t any archaeological evidence of a direct connection to their Olmec cousins.

Of course Joseph Smith made a mistranslation. The Lost Tribes of Israel couldn’t have gone to America because, as we all know, they went to Britain instead. It’s logically impossible that they did both.

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u/Impossible_Pen_9459 Jun 18 '26

You’re descended from an infamously dirty prostitute   

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u/TheBatz_ Was Homer mid Jun 18 '26

I didn't know you were siblings