What’s An Alternate History Scenario That You Feel Is Too Taboo To Be Talked About?

Is there a way to show the need for alternative narratives throughout time period in your mind without it being "dramatic".

Sound like you just don't want them, you're focusing on "extreme afrocentrism" but don't seem to understand literal extreme eurocentrism being the thing you're defending as a norm. Nor do you seem to understand the inherent revision that entails.

You're proving my point.

I wasn’t opposing your point; I agree that we need more minority narratives in historical study.

I was trying to consider the mindset of people opposed to these changes to historiography—they’ll take strawmen and use them as justification.
 
I thought of one. A timeline where a very offensive word IOTL has an innocuous meaning. Perfectly realistic, but probably something AH writers want to avoid, for good reason.
 
If I could think of any ATL too taboo for AH.com it would be: "What if Dylan Roof never killed black people in Charleston. How would the Confederate flag and monuments in cities be today?".
 
Never heard of it
not surprising--it's relatively obscure and it came out way the hell back in 2001. basically, ex-mobster Grigor Stoyanovich seizes power in Russia and starts taking over the world, starting with Europe, then the Middle East and North Africa, then he dies and his giant robot bodyguard takes over, (yeah, it one of those kind of games :p ) takes over China, and then starts focusing on America. you play as Russia throughout this and it slowly becomes more and more apparent that Grigor is and was an authoritarian fascist, and it involves alot of atrocities and genocide. also time travel. :p
 
Sounds unique my idea was that the Russian republic never dies and later a fascist takes over with nazi-ish ideas about lebensraum (living space for the master race) but for a new pan slavic people instead of for Nordic Europeans and living space in northern temperate China instead of in Europe.
 
A taboo topic? How about a timeline where the KKK never stops growing in power which results in a KKK fascist government during WW2, which ends up with the US siding with Hitler and implementing the Black and Jewish final solution and helping the Nazi's win WW2 (Literally painful to write that especially when I realized it was not all that improbableo_O:tiredface::perservingface:)
 
Timelines based on/supporting conspiracy theories or “alternative facts” (that aren’t in the ASB forum) might also fall under this idea.

You know, like “Bush did 9/11” written as a TL
 
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