I'll try to clarify my thinking here... An earlier poster asked "Could you explain why you think that 'liberals' are trying to sanitise history more than anyon

I'll try to clarify my thinking here... An earlier poster asked "Could you explain why you think that 'liberals' are trying to sanitise history more than anyone else?" The ideas that keep the left and right from posing a political problem to the established order are, respectively, pacifism and patriotism. Pacifism limits conflict to electoral and symbolic efforts. Patriotism does the same by loyalty rather than dissidence. To reenforce the idea of pacifism, for the benefit of the left wing, the mainstream media canonizes pacifist heroes, such as Mandala and Ghandi, downplaying the roles of militants in their self-determination movements.