As a historian, I feel like I have to defend and justify my chosen field and my profession everyday, trying to convince people of this very thing. It‘s become a cliche that not learning from history dooms people to repeat it; meanwhile, we‘re sitting here repeating it. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
GingerAntics More and more historians have to defend ourselves against an insistence that we uphold great man history as the ONLY history, as real history, and the idea that historians are the least knowledgable about history because we want to include as many voices and experiences as possible. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 4y
GingerAntics This is possibly the most dangerous conspiracy theory out there right now, because it threatens to silence additional voices and destroy evidence that doesn‘t fit the white supremacist view of America. #LangstonHughes #ThePantherAndTheLash #poetry #GreatManHistory #WomenAlsoKnowHistory (edited) 4y
GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa this is what a conspiracy theory really looks like. “Historians know the least about our real history. They just want to rewrite it.” It doesn‘t matter what evidence we can show that there have always been Muslims and Jews in America, or that the idea of Christian America didn‘t exist before the Great Depression, the fact we can produce that evidence just proves, to them, their point. 4y
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GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa We‘re changing the story and not telling the real story, the “white, male, Protestant” story. No amount of evidence will make them change their minds and they will willingly admit that. Your views are based on evidence and should valid evidence begin to show a different reality, your beliefs and views would shift with that. We‘re all being gaslighted. We are NOT the conspiracy theorists. (edited) 4y
Gaylagal2 @GingerAntics Thank you, it just can't be said enough. I'm not sure exactly where factual history became arguable and called conspiracy (oh I know - Drump), but I for one am dam sick of it. I'll always be on the side of facts, science and historical data 🤙👊 4y
GingerAntics @Gaylagal2 💙💙💙 there are times it seems that those of use who believe in scientific and historical data and fact are the majority, but there are far more where it seems most people are just clueless and even if they‘re not aggressively against what you‘re saying like the Cheeto‘s base, there are still people who will say “yeah, but there are other things” and they just act like we‘re not telling the whole story. 🙄 4y
Gaylagal2 My sentiment exactly 🤓 4y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yes...both history and science are not set in stone, they change as we learn more. New studies prove this, or discover that, just like new digs and writings emerge to change our views of history. That doesn‘t make them wrong, in fact I‘d argue the fact that they are willing to change with new evidence makes them more reliable. But sometimes I feel like we are entering another “Dark” Age, where knowledge is poopooed, but everyone‘s opinion ... (edited) 4y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa ...is as good as anyone else‘s, facts or no. ☹️ 4y
GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I fear the same thing. I find it ironic that the very people who complain about political correctness are the same ones that want their opinion treated as fact whether it‘s supported by fact, reality, or just their own insanity and get angry if you agree to this. 🙄 Drives me nuts. I‘m sorry, but Christianity has gone too far, making everything that isn‘t in the bible unreliable. It disgusts me. 4y
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