Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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And while it’s tempting to think the rewriting of history is something found exclusively in illiberal or dictatorial systems, it has increasingly become a feature of democracies. Donald Trump’s speech in Warsaw last month strove to cast Poland’s historical struggle for freedom and independence as a “civilisational” battle for family values, “tradition” and “God”, rather than an aspiration to democracy. The narrative entirely left out of the rich and varied political tapestry that gave rise to the solidarity movement. In a strange twist, Trump also drew a parallel between the threat Islamist terrorism poses to “the west” and the “danger” of “bureaucracy and regulation”. His nativist vision of the west as an embattled fortress of Christian nations in cultural danger reflected not only a personal political credo, but a wider attempt to rewrite the history of liberal democracies and the principles they are meant to uphold. He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past George Orwell Boia, Lucian (1997). Istorie și mit în conștiința românească. Bucharest, Romania: Humanitas. p.160–1. Many believe the Fourth of July is a day to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. They're wrong. Herf, Jeffrey (2006). The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during the World War II and the Holocaust. Harvard University Press. p.127. ISBN 978-0-674038-59-2.

Sykes, Stephen W. (2007). "Paul's understanding of the death of Jesus". Sacrifice and Redemption. Cambridge University Press. pp. 35–36. ISBN 978-0-521-04460-8. This horrific fake news story was only one of thousands reported by both sides during the war. In an example from the German propaganda machine, the French Minister of War reported in 1914 that the Germans in Alsace-Lorraine were publishing news that the French Parliament had voted against the war and that the President of the Republic had been assassinated. 10. War of the Worlds I agree that acceptance of opinion is important but there is also something weirdly 21st century and post-modern about denying that some level of factual evidence is important in terms of basing one’s belief. After all, the main issue with wokism is not that it seeks to impose evidence based thinking, but rather it closes itself to such thinking, on matters such as the heritability of intelligence, for example or on sexual dimorphism in humans. I remember in the podcast with Tom Holland you suggested that the interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon settlement as being an admixture of the host population with an immigrant elite was ‘woke’ but as Tom Holland correctly pointed out, this is simply based on genetic evidence not a political statement. Now how you interpret that genetic evidence is one thing, but the simple genetic data suggests that the pre-Roman population of Britain simply wasn’t wiped out and whatever happened (and we don’t really know) the simple narrative simply didn’t happen. Gürpınar 2016, p.234. "Maintaining that 'the best defence is a good offence', the new strategy involved accusing Armenians in response for perpetrating genocide against the Turks. The violence committed by the Armenian committees under the Russian occupation of Eastern Anatolia and massacring of tens of thousands of Muslims (Turks and Kurds) in revenge killings in 1916–17 was extravagantly displayed, magnified and decontextualized." harvnb error: no target: CITEREFGürpınar2016 ( help) Monthly magazine and British register, Volume 55 (February 1823), p. 449, in reference to John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize: Or, The Covenanters, Oliver & Boyd, 1823. [1]There was some skepticism about her claim when she was unable to provide any detail about her assailant, but another report of a similar occurrence some days later lent credence to her story. In 1692 in the town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two young girls started acting very strangely. The girls suffered from uncontrollable fits, bouts of incoherence, and odd outbursts including barking and choking sounds. A physician summoned to examine them concluded that the only explanation was that the girls were “under an evil hand.” They were bewitched. This sparked a full fledged witchcraft panic that ended up claiming the lives of 25 people and destabilizing the entire Massachusetts Bay Colony. The ensuing Salem Witch Trials have been pointed to as a pivotal moment in American colonial history, but so much of the incident remains mysterious and clouded by mythmaking. (more…) Episode #186 – Who Was Germany’s Greatest Imposter? Eventually Labour will split and destroy England for ever, that is the final objective of Marxism and Labour, that is their “modus operandi”. Dacianism is a Romanian pseudohistorical current that attempts to attribute far more influence over European and world history to the Dacians than that which they actually enjoyed. [40] Dacianist historiography claims that the Dacians held primacy over all other civilizations, including the Romans; [41] that the Dacian language was the origin of Latin and all other languages, such as Hindi and Babylonian; [42] and sometimes that the Zalmoxis cult has structural links to Christianity. [43] Dacianism was most prevalent in National Communist Romania, as the Ceaușescu regime portrayed the Dacians as insurgents defying an "imperialist" Rome; the Communist Party had formally attached "protochronism", as Dacianism was known, to Marxist ideology by 1974. [44] Historical falsification [ edit ] Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, a scene from which is shown in this fifteenth-century illumination, was a popular work of pseudohistory during the Middle Ages. Kennedy, Liam (2015). Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. p.19. ISBN 9781785370472.

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, better known as The Fake History Hunter, is on a one-woman mission to hunt down fake history and reclaim the truth for the rest of us.And lest we forget,, when the Red Army arrived in Silesia in 1945 they broke into the Blücher mausoleum and scattered his remains. Soviet troops reportedly used his skull as a football. The only way to stop immigration is to restore the Empires and their successful colonies, without sovereignty and giving shed loads of foreign aid will never do that, these Labour Refugee Manufacturing Plants will never change, to the contrary the corrupt regimes left behind by the Marxists will make the corrupt even happier (Note that the Marxists didn’t decolonize the Marxist Empires, only the Western ones, yet now they are trying to destroy us totally from inside criticizing us viciously and ignoring what really goes on TODAY in their Marxist Empires in expansion which is far worse than anything they try to accuse us of: slavery, harvesting of people for their organs etc.). So have history teachers really been lying to us? Have historians been deceiving us all along? And has Otto English really found the smoking guns? On 2 June 1897, an article headlined Mark Twain Amused, appeared in the New York Journal under the byline of Frank Marshall White. Often denies that there is such a thing as historical truth, clinging to the extreme skeptical notion that only what is absolutely certain can be called 'true' and nothing is absolutely certain, so nothing is true

a b c d e Williams, Stephen (1991). Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. Of course, he’s not alone in twisting history to further his political goals. In Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, school books have been modified to de-emphasise Ataturk, the founder of the secular republic. It’s all part of an effort to reverse that legacy and glorify the Ottoman past, as Erdoğan carves out ever more powers for himself.The following are some common categories of pseudohistorical theory, with examples. Note that not all theories in a listed category are necessarily pseudohistorical; they are rather categories that seem to attract pseudohistorians.

Howard Swint: Confederate revisionism warps U.S. history". Charleston Daily Mail. June 15, 2011. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013 . Retrieved 30 December 2013. Sadly I didn’t learn that until later. But consider the very last sentence Jane Austen wrote, in the unfinished Sanditon:Mark H is simply saying that Otto English’s being an anti-Brexit firebrand supports the argument being made in this article that English’s views of human events (both current and historical) tend toward the Manichaen. You are either right or wrong. You are either good or evil. You are either telling the truth or lying. Even before the end of the broadcast, doctors, nurses, soldiers and sailors reported for duty, ready to fight the Martians. Police stations across the country responded to thousands of calls. Newspaper reporters, hearing of the invasion, rushed to prepare special editions. Producers of the show were quite unprepared for this response, never thinking that anyone would believe that the broadcast was real. Reasons for Fake News As we’ve seen, reasons for fake news stories differ. Some are spread for political advantage, while others are spread for financial gain. Other fake news stories are nothing more sinister than an attempt to entertain, some stories come about by mistake while others arean act of desperation.