I don't need to know who needs to hear this but "history" (which is an academic discipline & mode of thought) can't prosecute anyone: goal of history is understanding not litigation. There are criminal & political systems for determining legal guilt & political transgressions
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When theology is out of fashion and your elites exist above the law, you get people fantasizing about history as some form of secular redemption
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Right. "History" is secular lib version of "leave her to Heaven."
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I'd have said it is a secular liberal and also a left version of "we are carrying out God's will."
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This is very useful for something I'm working on!
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