re: #153 No Malarkey!

Having spent a great deal of time on history Youtube recently, this is just like white archeologists dealing with Subsaharan Africa sites: it’s not about what actually happened, what the evidence can demonstrate, it’s that the past must conform to the political narratives of the present’s hegemons.

Madzimbabwe has to be Egyptian because modern Africans are primitives that need colonization; DC has to exist and be “loyalist” because modern DC has to be dismissed as fundamentally un-American.

Counterfeiting the past is a long tradition, it’s own kind of historiography.