re: #495 HappyWarrior

That’s awesome. Always do like seeing stories about people who do complete 180’s on things like that. And I think this speaks to why I don’t think HD should be criminal. Your co-blogger would have seen himself as a victim of censorship with such laws. We owe it to future generations to document history as accurate as possible which is why I am glad Holocaust historians, horrifying though the Holocaust was don’t fall into temptation by repeating the often repeated human lampshade myth. I mean Ilse Koch was a terrible person who deserved to spend her remaining years in prison so why embellish?

That works both ways since there are multiple cases of academics who did good solid work and then got sucked up their own assholes* and went 180/full bore into all sorts of bad places. IIRC, David Irving at one point was respected for some of his work regarding Rommel.

* - Might be some variant of the “brain eater” where an author goes from making good work to simply churning out crap. Often accompanied by a large ego preventing anyone from helping them properly edit a work.