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If you go to Wikipedia, you can read the following about the Celts and their sexuality.^[1][2][3][4] Now, is this true or not? Let's find out. Homosexual Celts? The Romans said that about the Gauls, the Celts, and the Greeks did too. But they also said a lot of other things about the Celts. And to me, this whole description of the Celts has a certain lampshade quality to it. And it reminds me of the news story from America, where a Kuwaiti nurse, during the first Gulf War, or before, I don't remember, in the media, crying, told about how Iraqi soldiers had ripped the Kuwaiti children from their cribs or in the hospitals in Kuwait and killed them.^[5] And it turned out that the nurse was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the USA. So the whole story was false. It was just a live propaganda intended to justify a war against Iraq.^[6] The Romans, they told a lot of weird stories about all the peoples they attacked. And many scholars claim that their stories about the peoples they attacked were not credible at all. And were in fact just lie propaganda intended to justify the aggression towards these peoples. If you look realistically at it, homosexuals, they have a reputation for being promiscuous. But not even the most promiscuous homosexuals that we know of today behave like the Romans and Greeks claimed that the Celts behaved. They don't offer themselves to the first person they meet.^[7] They don't offer themselves to strangers just like that. So why should we believe that the Celts did? It makes no sense. So when I hear these claims about the goals that they sacrificed humans and had incestuous^[8] relationships and burned people alive, the wicker man, and that they were homosexuals offering themselves to strangers, like I said, this has a certain lampshade quality to it. And I don't believe in it, simple as that. I will simply say that these sources exist, these claims were made, but we can be pretty sure I think that this was lie propaganda. In the end I wish to make a point of the fact that scholars too say that these sources exist, that this is what the Romans and also the Greeks said, but we have no reason to trust them to be true. And when I read on Wikipedia I can see that some of these obvious lies have not been accepted by the scholars. But interestingly the claim about homosexuality has been accepted by them. And I believe that this is because today those in power have an agenda in that context. The aggressors, they justify their wars with lies. The victors justify their crimes against the losers with lies. It has always been so and I am pretty sure it's going to stay that way.^[9] Thanks for watching.

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1. Aristotle: "the Celts were unusual because their men openly preferred male lovers." (Politics II 1269b).
2. H.D. Rankin in "Celts and the Classical World" notes that "Athenaeus echoes this comment (603a) and so does Ammianus (30.9). It seems to be the general opinion of antiquity."
3. In book XIII of his Deipnosophists, the Roman Greek rhetorician and grammarian Athenaeus, repeating assertions made by Diodorus Siculus in the 1st century BC (Bibliotheca historica 5:32), wrote that "the (Celtic) men preferred to sleep together (instead of with their women)."
4. Diodorus went further, stating that "the young men will offer themselves to strangers and are insulted if the offer is refused.
5. The "too early borns".
6. or maybe to justify the CRIMES they carried out on the Iraqis later on.
7. Diodorus went further, stating that "the young men will offer themselves to strangers and are insulted if the offer is refused".
8. or other Celts.
9. With one single historical exception: when Germany lost WWII. EVERYTHING said about them by the winners is of course true.