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CrabCake
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« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2015, 08:05:21 PM » |
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« Edited: February 02, 2015, 08:19:12 PM by CrabCake »
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Yes, I think sometimes people get caught up in the 'second opinion bias' whereby upon realising a historical period wasn't the black and white world taught in primary school inadvertently distort the issue into the complete opposite.
It's kind of like how, when a person first realises that the Union during the Civil War wasn't 100% pure and moral, then come out with statements like: 'the Union was just as bad as the confederacy'. This manner of thinking often distorts morality and overcompensates perceived learned bias. Another example is people learning about Allied War Crimes and using them to promote false equivalences between the Allies and Axis.
Obviously the world doesn't run exactly like a Schoolhouse Rock episode. That doesn't mean it is any more historically accurate to paint the founding fathers as demons.
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