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Is history too politicised?

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The Role of History in a Broader Movement

Culture wars were a reaction to the way that academia was being decolonized and recolonized by a rather I suppose the simple word is woke approach to history. It basically meant academic professionals were made to conform to this stereotypical view of history seen in terms of European colonial domination, slavery and those sorts of Western exploitative practices which again would be used for current political purposes against the West. That culture war since then it has very much I would say transmogrified because I think the socialist element has really gone but what has remained is a sort of very classist element if you like. On the basis of that rejecting much of it empire included but also Western soft power the way that Western

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