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Subject: RE: Historical Revisionism?
From: mousethief
Date: 12-Apr-01 - 06:40 PMPerhaps if we destroy all proof of inequities in the past, we can create a world in which inequities will have no historical touchstone, and thus take us by storm when they recur, leaving us no way of knowing how they were dealt with, and in some cases eliminated, in the past.
Alex
Subject: RE: Historical Revisionism?
From: Chicken Charlie
Date: 12-Apr-01 - 07:53 PMWell said, Mousethief. I used four times as much verbage and did half as good of job. You crystallize exactly what history does for us if it is taught rationally and fearlessly. If you drink, go buy yourself a beer.
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