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Not to be overly pedantic, but you're using revisionist history to mean a false rewriting of history, negationism, or denialism. The phrase historical revision
by ch4s3 9y ago
Not to be overly pedantic, but you're using revisionist history to mean a false rewriting of history, negationism, or denialism. The phrase historical revisionism actually means reinterpreting history based upon new evidence or new methods of analysis.
The incorrect use seems to have entered the popular imagination following the war in Iraq.
- chimeracoder 9y agoThat's not true. There are plenty of uses of the word "revisionism" with the pejorative connotation that predate the war in Iraq: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism But even if that weren't the case, it wouldn't really matter, because it's clear what meaning the world has today, both in the general case and in the context of OP's comment.
- ch4s3 9y ago> There are plenty of uses of the word "revisionism" with the pejorative connotation that predate the war in Iraq Sorry, I meant in colloquial American english. I don't recall ever hearing the word spoken aloud prior to maybe 2005, though I could be misremembering. You can certainly find the pejorative use(which I maintain is still incorrect) in the early 80s with respect to some books that were published at the time about the Vietnam War. I think prior to that the term was entirely academic, though again, I could be wrong.