Historians are humans. Humans always have an agenda, either conscious or unconscious, explicit or implicit.
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When you say "historians can't make moral judgements" you are ensuring that the unconscious, implicit agenda will be the one you write from.
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And given that we are fucking SOAKING in white supremacy here in the western world, I have real bad news for you about that unconscious bias
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So either you start from moral judgement that is eg "Columbus committed genocide and genocide is bad" or you do white supremacy's work
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Historians are not apolitical. History is not apolitical. Historians are not perfectly objective reporters of past fact.
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To claim that historians can be perfectly objective reporters of past fact is to tell a political lie meant to advance your view +
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+as the only legitimate objective view of history, and silence any dissenting views that make those moral judgements. Like "genocide is bad"
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How the fuck a poor white trash southern farmer with no degree gets this and a "credentialed historian" doesn't is fucking beyond me.
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I agree absolutely, but wow, Columbus is so evil I wouldn't mind just listing his actions.
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Once you get to 'prioritized 9 year old girls to sell into slavery' the man is so horrible, damn, who needs an editorial?
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