Power users and mods just keep repeating: “History is not a science because culture (i.e., god) is all-powerful. We might use evidence but we distrust grand theories.”

  • the_kid@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    interpreting history from a materialist lens makes you ‘biased’ or ‘ideological’, which is bad. historians are supposed to be like a machine, take input in and produce a compiled output of all the facts.

    source: my favorite unbiased historian, renowned for writing a biography of Churchill where he said he did nothing wrong