re: #1 JRCMYP

Perhaps historians are too quiet. If you speak up, then the debate changes from a political debate to a historical debate. When the debate becomes historical, the rules change—there is a standard of proof, there are supporting documents, there is rigor and logic.

The absence of those four pillars allows populism to grow. It’s a case of the good people doing nothing and possibly not caring about what grows in their silence.

Historians can’t complain about historical distortion because it’s the historians who are most capable of stopping it. When history is studied and discussed properly it is the antidote for this fetishism.

The problem doesn’t need to be explained, it needs to be stopped.