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Sometimes well, things aren’t balanced. The job of historians isn’t to create balance at the expense of facts. A great example would be the actual Holocaust, wh
by xref 3y ago
Sometimes well, things aren’t balanced. The job of historians isn’t to create balance at the expense of facts. A great example would be the actual Holocaust, where a “balanced” history would be completely disingenuous.
- p-e-w 3y agoBut the European discovery of the New World had thousands of aspects besides the genocide of the native population. Omitting those and viewing the entire, incredibly complex and multifaceted, process through a single lens isn't "facts" but propaganda. On the other hand, historical "science" has always been primarily a vehicle for propaganda, and there is no reason to expect that it would be any different in our times. So I guess this book is simply par for the course.
- mikebonnell 3y agoThe book does not take a pro-European perspective of their journeys to the Americas, but I do not think the book takes a single lens through this segment of history. It quotes from the explorers directly from their journeys in most cases.