Im not sure if Im asking the right question so ill provide some background. My SO has been watching Hidden colors and came to me about it telling me its the truth and I need to watch it so on and so forth.
If you guys don't know hidden colors is basically "black people did everything and European people stole it. Then destroyed as much proof as possible. However they left enough for people now to find and connect the dots. Although its a conspiracy to hide the truth from us so they won't tell us.
An example of the type of things mentioned are the statue of Liberty was supposed to be black and she represented slaves becoming free and they used a black model and it has chains still
Im a skeptic or at least im practicing skepticism and I'd like to be able to research these things myself to see if there is truth here or bs or a mixture. But im not sure how to do that. I also will most likely get hit with "thats the mans history or some other form"
Don't go at it this way : I have to prove her wrong. All the burden is on you. Do it like this: I don't believe their claims, from everything that I've learn it's not how it happened. The burden of the proof is on those making the claim. They have the minority view.
If she firmly believes this, she has to do the research.
I would also look into that show(film? Book? I'm not familiar). What sources are they citing, and are they credible? The absence of scholars, peer-reviewed sources, etc should sound an alarm bell.
Remember, even familiar and popular sources can be mistaken. I recently bought a copy of a National Geographic that falsely claimed the people of the Eastern Roman Empire just started to call themselves byzantine. So a familiar source is not a proof of fact. Get the source, see the context of the quote. In my case, it was clearly a case of poor review. A mistake like this is common.
Be careful with conspiracy theories, they always ask you to disprove their own claims. They have to support their theory, and being challenged when proven wrong doesn't mean something is hidden or that there is a secret to uncover. History is not that exciting.
Also, if you yourself don't know the answer doesn't mean their argument is right.
History has been recorded by many, many people, not just "the winners" as it's often perceived. People with varying point of views wrote about the same event. There is also physical evidence that inform us.
Stay focused on given her the burden of the proof.