[ProgressingAmerica]

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Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

Summary: Project Veritas has citizen journalists. Who has citizen historians?

[Brilliant]

History is a defunct academic pursuit.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“If it bleeds, it leads” journalism is systematically negative about American society. And, consequently, it is naive about government.

Historians who agree that journalism is “the first draft of history” are agreeing that only things that put society in a bad light go into making history.

No sale.

[RedMonqey]

I knew there were no more true historians but political hacks when NOT ONE ‘historian” objected to the tearing down of the historical Confederate statues and monuments.

Nor a F#$$$ing one.

Cowards all and p%ss on the academics!

[Don Corleone]

If Mad Bernie forgives all the student debt and makes education free where will the academics get their salaries? I don't think this was thought out completely. Would all profs be paid the same like doctors in socialised health care. Hmmmm?

PS. Where does the cash for the congressional retirement pay come from then? Right now its outsourced to the student debt repayment account.

[a fool in paradise]

Ask her about Soviet gulags.

[x]

That's a Newsweek reporter asking people about this when she already knows what they'll say. It's not like historians got together as a bloc and decided to agree with AOC and support her. And they're not even all historians - just professors who like to opine about things like this.

[YogicCowboy]

Frankfurt School. Long March. The Institutions.

[Grampa Dave]

“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished?”

1984 by George Orwell
Home Literature 1984 Characters Winston Smith

“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, and every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped.

Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories.

Just in that one instance, in my whole life, I did possess actual concrete evidence after the event – years after it.” (2.5.14, Winston to Julia)

https://www.shmoop.com/1984/winston-smith-quotes-2.html