The Racist Roots of Atlantis-Hunting

veritas et caritas ( @caritas_et) from Melbourne (25.5K subscribers) has just published a new video called " Is Atlantis hunting racist? No, but some racists are drawn to its racist roots"

Published on You Tube by veritas et caritas Aug 19, 2025

This is a really helpful resource, disentangling some concepts missed by the knee-jerk "pity me" victim playing of Graham Hancock and his followers. It has to be said that it is a bit difficult to follow as it is a bit text heavy. But this one (anté-rieurs) was well-caught indeed and shows the problems some other monolingual YouTubers might have with machine translation!

While on the subject of sixteenth century use of the texts of "Timeus" and "Critias", Sir Thomas More's pastiche of it in his satirical "Utopia" {literally "nowhere-place": from the Greek οὐ τόπος} makes it clear that he and his educated readwers of the time knew full well that the story of Atlantis was an allegory. 

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Illustration for the 1516 first edition of Utopia (Wikipedia).