The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158525   Message #3758324
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
14-Dec-15 - 09:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Subject: RE: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
History is based on hard facts and knowledge.
It has nothing to do with fashion, being trendy, or protecting long dead people.

It used to be possible to make something of a case for what you believe, and a few did.
Current historians have all the knowledge available to them, plus a lot more that has become available since.
It has led to that rare thing, a consensus, at least on the issues we have discussed.

I have only ever claimed that consensus for the last twenty years.
Anything older is irrelevant to anything I have ever claimed, so why mention it?

So, can you produce anything written in recent times?
No.
I can. Lots.

Unless and until you can find one single historian who still believes that old debunked shit you cling to, STOP WASTING OUR TIME!