#TheoryRevisionismHistorical #IndivAuthorGeorgeOrwell
#IndivScholarFrankFuredi i.e. https://www.frankfuredi.com/about
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther_(Australian_politician)
Supplementary: "People are suddenly very concerned about the perils of rewriting history. We must be vigilant, apparently, to the possibility that great swaths of the past will be forgotten or, worse, 'erased'. We must remain alert to the risk that our history will be 'whitewashed' - as if there were enough whitewash in the world - with the difficult, complex bits disappeared. Meanwhile, unaware of all the controversy he has caused, Edward Colston's statue lies peacefully at the bottom of Bristol harbour.
Historians are not too worried at the threat posed by 'rewriting history'. This is because rewriting history is our occupation, our professional endeavour. We are constantly engaged in a process of re-evaluating the past and reinterpreting stories that we thought we knew. Despite what Leopold von Ranke - one of the pioneers of modern historical research - said, history is not only about finding out 'how it actually happened', but also about how we think about the past and our relationship to it. The past may be dead but history is alive, and it is constructed in the present."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/10/rewriting-history-historians-statue-past #PhenomnStatueToppling #IndivHistoricalFigureEdwardColston #TheoryEpistemologySociallyConstructedKnowledge
Addendum: sadly, while this article makes some interesting points about the perils of
#TheoryDeterminismHistoricalPresentism i.e. interpreting the past according to present-day sensibilities, its so-called
#MetaphorWarCulture frame follows the same uncritical
#TauntCultureCancel script consistent with the majority of tweets contained within this archive. Perhaps, this might be worth reading to understand Furedi's fuller perspective:
https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/kentlife/29654/new-frank-furedi-book-explores-the-origins-and-rise-of-the-culture-war-over-socialisation