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You're speaking of real history, not the watered down version that gets taught to school children. Unfortunately, without concerted effort, the public will wil
by nickpeterson 8y ago
You're speaking of real history, not the watered down version that gets taught to school children.
Unfortunately, without concerted effort, the public will willfully reject an alternate history if it's more nuanced. Exhibit A, who invented the telephone?
- purple-again 8y agoThat is a really bad example to use as there is no general agreement on the issue. The Italian government obviously has a biased opinion in wanting to credit one of their citizens(I’m actually confused if he was Italian or American because it said his invention was in New York). I don’t know what skin in the game Canada has when they passed a resolution recognizing Bell Graham as the inventor. Honestly to me it looks like there is not a clear answer. You can pick either of them you want, draw an abitrary line in the sand about what a ‘telephone’ really is and use that line to defend your choice. Any rational argument on the topic will have to start with both parties agreeing on what a telephone is first and then looking at the two parties to see which invented their agreed definition.