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May small badhistory posts thread (self.badhistory)

smileyman[M] が 投稿 - stickied post

Damn that's an unwieldy title.

This is a place to dump all the badhistory you run across that isn't worth doing a whole post about. I know there's only a week left in the month but that's a nice warm-up to June.

Rules for the small posts are slightly different.

1.) Don't link directly to the post/comment itself

2.) Please quote it though (or at least summarize it if it's a real life badhistory moment)

3.) As usual, no username callouts.

These rules may be adjusted for June.

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[–]smileyman[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'll start us off with this user in /r/todayilearned

History is written by the victor, and the enemy always attacks first or makes war inevitable in the history books.

(Apparently he was defending the idea that the US was to blame for WWII.)

There are numerous examples of history being written by the losers. The most apparent example of this in US History is the Civil War, where the losers got to define the war for future generations.

We also have WWII, where the losers of both battles got to define at least partially what the cause of the war was about (e.g. Treaty of Versailles), as well as the myth of the clean Wehrmacht.

Going back several hundred years, some of the best sources we have on the battle of Agincourt are French sources.

This person later goes on to say:

I have a history degree actually. Maybe you should broaden your education beyond subreddits, so that you don't look foolish so often.

Too bad it appears they didn't learn anything from their degree.