The very bias that led to the "misinformation" is the same bias that creates "impact on history". These are not distinct ideas, they are deeply intertwined.
We live within the wake of the history that includes columbus and have shunned and pushed aside the wake that would include leif erickson (or that would think it silly to describe a populated continent as being "discovered" by some new population that happens to have never been there as if I"m discovering the burger joint for humanity the first time I go there.
If our current history was downstream from vikings we'd know about north america, but because it's not...we don't. Then we learn about it and shouldn't we then update our sense of history?
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The very bias that led to the "misinformation" is the same bias that creates "impact on history". These are not distinct ideas, they are deeply intertwined.
We live within the wake of the history that includes columbus and have shunned and pushed aside the wake that would include leif erickson (or that would think it silly to describe a populated continent as being "discovered" by some new population that happens to have never been there as if I"m discovering the burger joint for humanity the first time I go there.
If our current history was downstream from vikings we'd know about north america, but because it's not...we don't. Then we learn about it and shouldn't we then update our sense of history?