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That'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/wik
by chimeracoder 9y ago
That'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.