The obvious purpose of this is to politicize history even more. It's easier to look at ancient history more objectively. We can talk about the Mongols or the Romans without getting too worked up. People are unable to talk about Columbus and later without pervasive bias. https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1007664663083941889 …
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Replying to @HbdNrx
As touched on in that thread, this is also about cutting off the troublesome fact that most of the world literally has no history prior to contact with Europeans. Their history is actually our history of them. The world-myth of Equality cannot accept this reality.
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