> 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

> 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.