I will save you the clicks. The "misuse of history" that Doug here is complaining about is "saying things that happened that make him feel sad."
The misuse of history is ipso facto the doing of history. He wants a whitewashed fictional history where Britain are the good guys.
The misuse of history is ipso facto the doing of history. He wants a whitewashed fictional history where Britain are the good guys.
Non historians love to say that doing history - interpreting the past and attempting to explain why events happen is a "misuse" because they think history is something which exists to aggrandise them. And to be fair it often is because of how textbooks are made and why.
Real history, however, doesn't gloss over stuff you don't like. It has to grapple with Britain's refusal to take in Jewish refugees during WWII, oh and the cheeky refugees it sent to prison camps in Australia just in case they were spies. You know. Whatever.
None of this is surprising. I am just saying when people like this pretend, as they often like to, to be champions against discrimination or antisemitism they are lying. For them there is never any goal other than their own power and comfort.
When you are deeply concerned with doing history.
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