Thoughts on the topic of historical revisionism

[fridi]

Personally, I hate the term "historical revisionism" because it has the implication that history was "figured out" and "static" and it is only ideological jerks who try to "revise" or "change" it. It sort of tries to make the "orthodox" narratives of history seem like they were author-less, generated without ideological predisposition or goals, and that only the "revisionist" accounts are "biased" in some way.

But all historical narratives have some degree of bias and error in them...