The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158525   Message #3758966
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
17-Dec-15 - 05:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
Subject: RE: BS: Jingoism or Commemoration
This is what I meant by the way some people state things as being black and white.

Modette, is it your experience that hiostorians all collude to create a false history for political expediency?

No. No one has suggested that all historians collude but they do reference each other. It is however in most peoples experience that that people will do whatever is required to secure funding/ ensure the faculty remains/ get published. No one is suggesting a false history has been created. Just that there are differing viewpoints and, at present, the one you suggest is ticking the right boxes.

Modette, how do you suggest people should learn about WW1 if every history of recent decades is falsified?

No one is suggesting anything has been falsified. Yet another straw man. All historic events have many different viewpoints. All viewpoints are all true to a greater or lesser extent.

Modette, do you as a historian believe that all the historians are wrong about thise, and people should refer to Mudcat Lefties instead?

False dilemma. No one believes that all historians are wrong. No one believes that all 'Mudcat lefties' (pejorative term) are right. There is a middle ground which can be agreed on.

Why can you just not accept that your viewpoint, while perfectly valid, is not the only possible answer?