#rewritinghistory — Public Fediverse posts
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#Quotes #Timely #1984 #Orwell #History #RewritingHistory
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”
― George Orwell, 1984 -
Trump DOJ Fires Prosecutors, Scrubs Court Records Of Mention Of January 6 Insurrection
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Might be a good time to donate to Wikipedia.
https://gizmodo.com/maga-puts-wikipedia-in-its-crosshairs-2000649462
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🎨A vignette into our #Art+Feminism editathon at the National Gallery of Ireland
💪 A group of motivated first-time Wikipedia editors making the internet a more equal place!
📖Read all about the event https://tinyurl.com/4sz2bfd8
#irishartists #wikipedia #gendergap #rewritinghistory #digitalactivism
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Lost City Rises Again
A submerged city off India's coast, possibly from 7000 BC, is forcing archaeologists to rethink early human history. Pottery, skeletons, and urban planning—centuries ahead of what was thought possible.#archaeology #ancienthistory #india #lostcivilisation #timeline #humanhistory #rewritinghistory
https://www.sustainability-times.com/research/lost-city-rises-again-submerged-indian-metropolis-stuns-archaeologists-and-forces-a-rethink-of-all-human-civilization-timelines/ -
#Russia #Putin #VladimirPutin #Stalin #USSR #BBC #SteveRosenberg #Russian #UkraineWar #Indoctrination #History #RewritingHistory #ErasingHistory
The slow indoctrination begins. If Steve asked the same questions to young Russians in thirty years, I wonder what answers he’d get?
Steve Rosenberg’s past exploits make him a top journalist in my opinion. Anyone gutsy enough to ask Putin inflammatory questions head on in fluent Russian is definitely worth listening to.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cz63n6j7407o -
History of the Nisei ‘Go For Broke’ WWII unit removed from Army website (Hawaii News Now, 2025-03-14)
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/14/history-nisei-go-broke-wwii-unit-removed-army-website/
———“A webpage detailing the history of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team has been removed from the U.S. Army’s official website.”
“The 442nd… was made up mostly of second generation [= ‘Nisei’] Japanese-Americans.”
“In the years after the Pearl Harbor attack, when Japanese-Americans faced intense racism, about 800 of them gave their lives for this country fighting with the 442nd.”
“Bo Mahoe is a board member of the Nisei #Veterans Memorial Center on Maui, and wants to make sure they are not forgotten.”
#USPol #JapaneseAmericans #historical_revisionism #RewritingHistory
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"That’s why the Alberta document is really just despicable.
It’s a complete insult to so many people who sacrificed so much doing everything they could to keep people alive while their work was sabotaged and undermined by information spread by some of the people in this document."
#Covid19 #abpoli #Covid19Response #RewritingHistory -
Myth of #Thanksgiving
"Paula Peters, a citizen of the #MashpeeWampanoag Tribe and independent scholar of the history of the #Wampanoag, said the notion that it was just a harmonious celebration is partly a myth.
"'There wasn't an invitation extended to invite the Wampanoag to come and feast with them,' Peters previously told USA TODAY. 'It was really quite by accident, that there were any shared festivities at all.'
"The pilgrims were celebrating their first harvest when they fired off muskets repeatedly, a form of entertainment for the settlers.
"Hearing the blasts, the Wampanoag thought it was a threat. The supreme leader Massasoit Ousamequin assembled a small army of approximately 90 warriors and approached the settlement, much to the surprise of the pilgrims.
"After de-escalating the situation, the pilgrims and the Wampanoag feasted together, though historical texts don't indicate what they might have eaten besides deer hunted by the Wampanoag, as Peters writes in an introduction to 'Of Plimoth Plantation.'
"'The contemporary holiday perpetuates the myths of the Wampanoag and Pilgrim relations,' Peters writes in the book. 'It conjures up Hallmark images of happy Natives and Pilgrims feasting on a cornucopia of corn, pies, and meats, including a fully dressed roast turkey.'"
#Ousamequin #Colonialism #MythOfThanksgiving #WhiteSettlers #RewritingHistory #Pilgrims #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory
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How I Lost my Past
... History is written, we are told, by the victors and stories that do not fit the pattern narrative are rejected. This is especially the case, I have come to believe, in the United States that has created during the Cold War a formidable machinery of open and concealed propaganda. That machinery cannot be easily turned off....
https://glineq.blogspot.com/2017/09/how-i-lost-my-past.html
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29680492
