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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2020

      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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    2. Sam Haselby‏ @samhaselby 18 Oct 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      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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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2020
      Replying to @samhaselby

      Right. "History" is secular lib version of "leave her to Heaven."

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    4. davidrieff‏ @davidrieff 18 Oct 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @samhaselby

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2020
      Replying to @davidrieff @samhaselby

      There's that too -- a providential theology by way of Hegel, liberal protestantism and (among left) Marx.

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        2. davidrieff‏ @davidrieff 18 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @samhaselby

          Of course liberal Protestantism and the left in America overlap in, crucially, the figure of Martin Luther King, who was a great one for insisting that, sooner or later, history would be revealed as being on the side of goodness and justice.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2020
          Replying to @davidrieff @samhaselby

          It's a formidable tradition but I think we have to start dispensing with teleological thinking,

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        2. davidrieff‏ @davidrieff 18 Oct 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @samhaselby

          Nietzsche's aphorism - "nature, cynical in her sunrises" - always seemed to me a far truer assessment of history's moral indifference.

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        3. Wayne W. S. Hsieh‏ @whsieh 18 Oct 2020
          Replying to @davidrieff @HeerJeet @samhaselby

          This makes me want to re-read "Use and Abuse of History." 😂 IMO one of the reasons mil history is a genre out of step with academic hist is its implied moral calculus involves Honor-culture virtues out of step with liberalism--aggression, pride, agonistic competition, etc.

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