"Revising history is good actually" is a rare honest insight into the progressive mind.https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/23/dan-snow-daughter-women-war?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true …
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in other words: what's the difference between a libel and a revision?
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the first and most practical is that the death can't sue. the second is related to a question: what do you think is the equivalent to history revisionism for other disciplines?
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data fabrication in the hard sciences. plagiarism in literary or journalistic writing.
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weird. I would put it closer to "non-mainstream researcher", and can be for good or bad reasons. I realize alt-nutrition has some moony guys so I'm not making a compliment either, but I wouldn't think of reaching your extreme.
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why not though? I'm categorizing it as as a variety of malicious lying. is it not that?
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people (say, wikipedia) usually have the separate term negationism for that, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism … you can disagree with wikipedia, I do on various topics, I just have no reason here yet
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this isn't revising moral judgments about history. this is lying.pic.twitter.com/ZT8aJTK1vM
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was it ah honest mistake, or lying/making it up on the spot? has he lied beyond trying to make a literal six year old feel better?
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this is less objectionable than the average historical revisionism, and therefore, grading on a curve,
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