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Khuutra on 16 March 2010
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TheRealMafoo said:
Khuutra said:

I went to a private school, my American History class was taught by our basketball coach. We played Risk most of the time.

And yes! I fundamentally give a shit about revisionist history. That is one of the things I care about.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22994/22994-h/22994-h.htm

Read a history book from a while back, and tell me every book we have today is not "revisionist history".

So are you just trying to downplay the evils of revisionist history by pointing out that it's been done before (though serious historians do their best to revise historical accounts rather than events or personages themselves) or are you going so far as to suggest that revisionist history is the natural and proper course?

Or, God help me, are you suggesting that we had a better and more complete rendition of history decades/centuries ago than we do now?