All any living organism has is stimulus, response, memory and anticipation based upon that memory. Memory is the key element here. Facts are the things remembered and it is our understanding of the facts, how the facts relate to each other and their significance for our future actions that is all-important. On a societal level, our history is our memory and it has a direct bearing on our future. To deny historical facts is to lobotomize the foundational element from the collective consciousness. If it is allowed to happen it takes away the necessary tools for making intelligent and informed decisions and dooms us to repeat mistakes madein the past.

I have made this observation in other threads but it is germane to this discussion and so I will also repeat: a curse and a pox upon any who attempt to rewrite factual history.