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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what really got me about that whole thing was it was prefaced as an antidote to a thread that was "bad history." Christ.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NeolithicSheep
That attitude was the sort of thing I was warned about in grad school
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Be political! Make moral judgements! Explicitly decide on your agenda and go for it! Boldly proclaim genocide is bad!
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