President Obama is calling me a dyke?

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Originally Posted by Ahldagor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hence "for their times". not to mention revisionist history adheres to current conservative politics in order to create different views of heroism. politics is a dirty game, but don't go bashing with that "we can't really know history" bullshit-amateur-nihilist argument.

Well the same argument could be made that they were truly evil "for their times" also. All I'm saying is that what you're taught in a history class about how great a lot of these guys were is just a cherry picking of historical facts at best. At worst its completely dishonest about what actually happened or omits any info that would shine a bad light on them. So no its not that "we can't really know history", its that you can't really trust history books. History is written by the victors after all.